Something about the sustained and unrelenting dread of LONGLEGS makes it feel truly wicked. Coupled with nuanced performances and disorienting visual and audio design, this psychological thriller grinds you down.
It does evoke the essence of Silence of the Lambs and plays with well known tropes but does so with a disturbing moodiness. The effective direction offers no jump scares but plenty of jarring jump cuts, and its period setting convinces me that horror films set before the internet or cell phones feel more authentic and urgent.
One of the best this year.
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