Longlegs’ finishing and deaths defined by director Osgood Perkins

spoiler ALERT: This story contains major spoilers about “Longlegs,” playing in theaters now.

Even before its shades, critics and horror fanatics who saw director Osgood Perkins’ serial killer thriller “Longlegs” praised it as one of the darkest, most frightening films in recent memory. Now that the movie is finally out in theaters, audiences can see it for themselves, but it’s worth mentioning: the horror hype is real.

From Nicolas Cage’s efficiency as a deranged serial killer to the pitch-perfect Twilight ending, “Longlegs” will stun even the most die-hard horror fans. The murder thriller has a lot of twists, and people watching the movie won’t be able to expect how it will end.

Perkins was sitting unwell selection Talking about the ending, however, those who want to proceed through the film without any interruptions will have to tread carefully. able?

In “Longlegs” it is finally revealed that FBI Agent Lee Harker (Mika Monroe) has a personal connection to Cage’s killer. Later teased in the film’s prologue, Lee soon realizes that Longlegs had come to his house on his birthday as a child, just like he does for all his patients. Despite the fact that, for some reason, she survived.

Throughout her investigation, Lee connects the dots that Longlegs must have had an accomplice to all of his gruesome murders. Although who? After the FBI captures him, Longlegs asks Lee to talk to his mother, Ruth (Alicia Witt). After being interrogated he brutally crushed his face on the desk and killed himself.

Lee goes to her mother’s house to find out the truth: she was Longlegs’ mysterious wife all along. After Longlegs met Lee as a child, Ruth proposed to him to provide her daughter with protection. Ruth dressed up as a nun and visited homes to pass out invisible dolls as objects from the church. Longlegs filled the dolls with supernatural, demonic whispers, causing people to become obsessed with murder and commit murder at every opportunity. Longlegs lived in the Harkers’ basement, and Lee’s doll gave him psychic skills.

After Ruth destroys Lee’s doll and runs away, Lee points to her mother’s closest target: the home of FBI Agent Carter (Blair Underwood). It is Carter’s daughter’s birthday, although Lee is late. Ruth is already in the lounge with a doll, and the Carters have lost their minds. Agent Carter kills his wife in the kitchen, and before he can get to his daughter, Lee shoots his mother and breaks the mausoleum. Then, Lee runs out of bullets and the doll remains. The film begins with an ominous “Hail Satan!” Ending with. From Longlegs on, the fate of the surviving characters is murky.

Where did Nature Longlegs come from? Did you have him in your mind and build the film around him, or were you making a murder thriller and then created this villain?

It was built around the personality of Longlegs, a personality that had attempted to inject itself into other projects I had worked on. When you’re writing the entire event and producing the specifications and no one is paying you or you don’t have a supply theme, you’re making the entire event worthless. You end up with a universe of objects moving around, and you try to stick them by pulling them out. Longlegs used to be a unit, this shabby one – is he the birthday clown? Is that a puppet grip? Does he offer stuffed animals? Is this a light piano? You start to wonder about the fact that it comes to your child’s birthday and you are in another room and you don’t know that they are having a conversation and it’s weird. He doesn’t grab the kids because we’ve seen that happen 1,000 times already. He talks roughly to them. You start getting interested in it. Once I decided I was striving for a serial killer process that was becoming something else, I wanted an evil guy. Longlegs used to be like, “I’ll do it.” On your drawer of concepts, one of them says, “Put me in, coach.” And going longlegs.

The term of respect “Longlegs” is creepy enough in itself, although we don’t get any reason why he yells it himself. Where did that title come from?

We writers are like idioms. We love how positive words set the tone, look, feel and feel. Yes, it has daddy long legs and a creepy-crawly aspect to it, but it also feels very 70s to me – almost like Led Zeppelin music or something someone would have put on the side in their van, something like that. Groovy. It seems to be an ancient term of respect that people don’t throw around much these days. This sets the film on a strange playground. You are not fully aware of it. It’s not consistent at all, which is extra attractive to me and creates an interest that I think is worth noting.

Your previous film, “The Blackcoat’s Daughter,” also featured Satanism, but this film takes it up a notch. Why did you feel like doing this again?

All this Baroque devil worship, now it’s not that I’m not significantly drawn to it; To me, it’s window dressing. It’s like Halloween, people are dressing up. It’s just ritual and pomp and status and track and party and awkwardness. These are all issues that the horror genre needs, it’s the exploration of what we don’t understand. It’s really crafty and delicious. I really just tried to create something that was comprehensible and comfortable, especially for the horror target audience. Horror audiences are presented with a hoard of evil things and they pull it off because they need to; They want horrible treatment. However every now and then you want to give them something that is a little more streamlined and curated for them.

Longlegs dolls have this supernatural component. Do you have any evidence of how they work in reality?

I say, but I won’t. This is part of the devil’s fickleness. Wouldn’t it be broadly surprising to people who introduced a doll into a person’s space and it threw everyone off balance. It’s kind of humorous and strange. It’s almost like, “You messed up and let him in. You didn’t have to sign for it!” Just because a nun brings it to you, doesn’t mean you should let her come over to your place with it. It can be that there’s largely a “you did it yourself” kind of atmosphere, which I think is kind of amusing.

We do not have to trace Ruth’s faith, although it seems to be some form of Christian religion. Do you have any particular faith in mind or do you want the film to be a critique of that?

I am no longer spiritual. I don’t stretch the faith too much or too much; It is no longer my playground to tell people what they should think or feel or where they should progress to feel more safe or in charge or whatever they want. I think people are sometimes religious because of humor. The crowd has a sense of humor, isn’t it? We’re all doing our part to stay on top of aqua. Even Ruth Harker snorts at that notion of prayers. Like, prayer? Everyone is praying. Everyone in the Middle East is praying on this occasion. And using material from the Bible, it has excellent language. There’s just some unbalanced, weird language in the Bible. “A beast with ten horns, heads, and crowns is coming out of the sea.” This is the best. Little needs to be said about this, although the Bible actually contains a collection of amusing, silly words that are useful to those who are just beginning to write in search of words.

Was this the last moment you always thought about? Was there ever a soft finishing of the film?

That was always the ending. Finishing was considered fatal. Satan once again wins on a small scale. One of the most intriguing issues about using Satan as your villain is that Satan is never really going for global dominance. Satan seems to be all the time, “I’ll just have sex with this person, I’ll ruin this family, I’ll ruin this child, I’ll hurt this priest.” This doesn’t exactly mean, “I’m going to eat the Vatican.” With Satan I will never reach that time. Satan is a little more cheerful and playful than that. Lee Harker’s story ends with the conclusion of the film. The latter shot that she fires may be the worst thing that happens to her.

Such is the unpredictable life of killing Longlegs before the movie ends. Did you ever plan to keep him with you for a long time?

We were consciously conscious of our references and we wanted to create a pop art piece. As time and time again we borrow or shout out advances from one of the greatest serial killer movies of all time, we need to do so. That’s just “Se7en”. I think Kevin Spacey has three or four scenes, right? He gives himself up, he’s in the thing and then he’s in the car and that’s the end. He’s always available, which we had with Cage as well, like this thing is there, but when you get to the partner, it’s almost counterintuitive. Of course, he gets pretty climactic in “Se7en”, but I like the fact that John Doe gives himself up. We had to type – “cheat” is not an exact term of respect – “borrow” is similar to what we were doing.

This interview has been edited and condensed for readability.