Director Guillermo del Toro recently shared his thoughts on the director Osgood Perkins’recently released horror thriller Long legs.
A lot of people call it the scariest movie of the year, but I didn’t find anything scary about it. I was really excited for this movie, but it didn’t live up to the marketing hype.
There are people who like it, though, and one of those people is Del Toro. He praised the film and the director, saying: “LONGLEGS (2024) A great film by Oz Perkins, 100% his atmosphere.
“It’s comforting when a colleague does well while remaining true to the rhythms and motifs that made his career. His metronome, his meticulous composition, and his unsettling sense of evil and impending doom,” he wrote.
He continued: “I loved that evil Tiny-Tim-style cage (our last and best Expressionist performer), the darkness of satanic panic: a closed labyrinth where evil devours the occasional passerby.
“And Perkins’s bizarre, super-dry (almost exfoliating) humor: T-Rex, the occasional ironic ‘You’ll still be in the kitchen’ quip. It’s not your average horror, or your average thriller.
“It represents the same worries that Oz has had from the beginning and his cosmic terror. It’s his vibe and his signature and I’m happy that he’s making more people know him.”
Perkins previously spoke about the film, saying, “I can’t watch real things. I don’t like them. I don’t like them. I don’t want to know.
“All this stuff couldn’t be more romanticized and totally made up. That’s part of the fun. [for] me. It’s like, “Oh, that’s probably how FBI people talk. Oh, that’s probably how they would walk into a room.
“I don’t know, maybe it’s something like that.” That’s part of what makes it light for me, honestly. I don’t care what these sick people do. To me, this is a different kind of poetry, you know, and it’s totally just fiction.”
I just think the great marketing for the movie ruined it for me. It made me want a great horror movie, and one that would actually scare me, which hasn’t happened in a long time, and it didn’t live up to that. Even the story was a failure for me.
In the story, “As the case takes complex turns, uncovering evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the ruthless killer and must race against time to stop him before he kills another innocent family.”
If you’ve seen the movie, what do you think?
by Joey Fear
Source: Geek Tyrant

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