“Long Legs”

8.5

In a word – unsettling.

The whole damn thing. Front to back. The opening scene of this film is one of the best in recent memory and legitimately grabbed each and ever person in the theater and didn’t let them go until the credits rolled. The atmospheric dread that each and every scene is steeped in is a work of art in and of itself.

As expected, Nic Cage and Maika Monroe turn in fantastic performances that you lose yourself in as the story unfurls.

Definitely not your typical modern horror film. It’s a season’s worth of “Mindhunter” procedural married with the discomfort of “Silence of the Lambs,” all packaged neatly within the hour and forty minute runtime. Did the second to third act bridge get a little clunky? Sure. But it’s more than made up for by everything else here firing on all cylinders. I didn’t expect to be this terrorized by a film heading in. I’m still processing it 4 hours later.