Directed by Osgood Perkins, starring Maika Monroe as FBI agent Lee Harker.
Serial killer named 'Longlegs' influences families into committing murder-suicides and leaves cryptic notes in Zodiac-style code.
Title: The Unsettling Tale of Longlegs: A Horror Movie Sensation
Longlegs, the latest horror movie sensation directed by Osgood Perkins, has taken the film industry by storm. With its advanced hype and ingenious marketing campaign, it has become the must-see horror movie of the summer. But does it live up to the expectations? Let's delve into this intriguing tale.
Background: Longlegs is a chilling thriller set in the 1990s about an FBI agent named Lee Harker, played by Maika Monroe, who has an unusual ability to uncover terrible things. The movie follows the investigation of a serial killer known as Longlegs who influences families into committing murder-suicides and leaves cryptic notes in Zodiac-style code.
Longlegs earned $22.6 million in its opening weekend domestically.
It is Neon’s biggest opening to date and the biggest opening for an original horror movie this year.
Neon used creative marketing strategies to generate buzz for Longlegs, including trailers ahead of tentpole movies and hiding Nicolas Cage’s appearance in promotional materials.
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The author makes several statements in the article that are not fallacious. However, there is one instance of an appeal to authority when Neon compares Longlegs to The Blair Witch Project. This comparison is used to highlight the success and unexpected performance of Longlegs at the box office.
Neon really went all-out to make sure everyone knew that Longlegs existed. Trailers played ahead of many tentpole movies in the last several months, and a marketing campaign further encouraged viewers to uncover potential secrets. It also helped to hide Cage’s appearance—if your movie’s already looking creepy as hell, the only way to see what its co-lead looks like is to steel yourself and see the damn thing. Neon’s distribution boss Elissa Federoff noted the marketing was ‘built with creativity and imagination.’ ‘We built a movement around this film,’ she noted. ‘When audiences can tell that it will be original and something they haven’t seen before, they’ll rally behind it.’
Deadline reports Longlegs has earned $22.6 million domestically. It’s the biggest opening to date of Neon’s seven-year stint, and the biggest opening for an original horror movie this year.
Neon compares Longlegs to The Blair Witch Project: ‘Not since [Blair Witch] has there been an independent genre film that out-projected, out-performed and over-indexed so wildly that it seemed to the industry it ‘came out of nowhere.’’
Longlegs is a new horror film by director Osgood Perkins.
Agent Lee Harker, played by Maika Monroe, is a FBI agent with an unusual ability to find terrible things.
Longlegs is a serial killer who influences families into committing murder-suicides and leaves cryptic notes in Zodiac-style code.
Nicolas Cage plays the title character, Longlegs, but his image is not revealed until later in the film.
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The article contains editorializing and selective reporting. The author expresses his personal preferences for horror movies and positions Longlegs as a breakthrough film based on its distributor's marketing campaign. He also focuses on specific aspects of the movie, such as the atmospheric scares and Lee's psychic abilities, while omitting details about other elements of the plot.
Perkins isolates her in the frame as often as possible, driving home what a lonely and curious creature she is...
The freaky new piece of horror from the director Osgood Perkins is being positioned as a breakthrough by its distributor, Neon...
I was especially struck by the rules-versus-vibes dichotomy when watching Longlegs...
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The author makes several comparisons between different genres of horror films and the director's previous works, but these are not fallacies as they are providing context and analysis. The author also uses figurative language to describe the film's atmosphere and tone, which is a valid way to express thoughts about the movie. However, there is an instance of an appeal to authority when the author states 'The Silence of the Lambs meets Hereditary'. This statement implies that because these films are well-regarded in horror cinema, Longlegs must also be good due to this comparison. This is a fallacy as it does not provide any evidence or reasoning for why Longlegs is similar to these films other than their genre and the author's opinion.
The article contains some instances of informal fallacies, specifically an appeal to authority and a dichotomous depiction. However, these do not significantly impact the overall content of the article. The author's assertions are generally clear and logical.
] Perkins remembered seeing Jonathan Demme’s ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ and David Fincher’s ‘Se7en’ and thinking, Wow, these are perfect. Every once in a while, there's a perfect movie. And here's two of them and they happen to be in the serial killer genre.[/
