Hey Trin! The killer that shoots Lee’s partner at the beginning is not LongLegs, it’s a completely different case. The FBI is so impressed Lee was able to know that the killer was in that specific house that she is then brought on to the LongLegs case because they need her intuition/psychic abilities to solve it.
This is exactly right. That whole scene is really all about introducing Lee Harker, not only her psychic abilities but also her palpable panic when her partner gets killed so abruptly. It's very effective in getting the audience to watch the rest of the film through Lee's eyes and to understand her paranoid headspace.
@TommyDay-kq1jj Yes it does, although they are portrayed in a somewhat vague manner that allows for more than one interpretation. That being said, the narrative on a surface level definitely involves dark magic and Satanic elements throughout.
Oh my god I just realized that when longlegs said “the man downstairs” he wasn’t just referring to the devil, but literally him because he lived beneath the house 😵😵😵😵
@@justintime6242 I see your point. However, when longlegs tells Lee to ask her mother about the man downstairs, he is alluding to the fact that he lives downstairs and her mother is the only one that knows. Yes, as I said in my original comment, he is referring to the devil as well. But it is entirely possible that he is referring to both things at once. Longlegs is a devil worshipper who does the devil’s works and is a man who lives downstairs, so that’s why I believe I’m not reading too far into things Justin. Thank you
The first case that Lee goes on when he partner gets shot straight away is a different case, not the longlegs one. Because of her ‘gut feeling’ about the house, Lee is then moved onto the longlegs case I was also confused at this part I didn’t believe they distinguished it enough
No because the opening scene and jumpscare before the credits is so horrific. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the split second of his face falling down to enter the frame completely.
This movie is so sinister. It plays off of a lot of fears that can realistically happen. A creepy dude who’s hanging around you (LIVING IN YOUR BASEMENT!) and yet you have no recollection of his existence until you discover old photos (ooooooh the goosebumps). And then to know your mom has been helping all along, like….
longlegs is said to be kind of an ex rock glamer which may be why he has botched plastic surgery, but also explains the singing and his eccentric-ness (i like to think) also something to think about is that during the 70s/80s many believed rock music artists sold their souls to the devil
The regisseur said this in an interview, how he imagined Longlegs as a former, not successfull glam rocker. But if you know it, there are a lot of T-Rex Songs and one citation in the beginning of the movie. In one scene you see a cover photo of Marc Bolan, the front man with pale makeup und a big black hat. At first , I thought, it was a picture of Longlegs because they look so much allike.
I saw someone say he got all the plastic surgery to make himself as beautiful he could for when he finally meets the devil in afterlife, which I think makes the most sense
The first killer Lee caught was just a random killer case, but the event leads the FBI to believe she has some psychic power which can help with solving Longlegs
Did you hear about that mother? Apparently she broke her daughter’s legs in two. And the worst part of it all is she told her “it’s too dangerous to walk out there so I had to save you” like omg??
In the scene near the beginning where Lee is shown abstract shapes and says what word she associates with them, I remember thinking how random the words were - tiger, box, camera, piano, mother, father (I can't remember them all there might be more). But then when she's in her childhood bedroom later on it becomes clear where those words came from. In her room is small PIANO, next to the piano is a BOX, inside the box is a CAMERA and toy TIGER. Of course there is also a picture of Longlegs in the box, so all these things are part of her memories that were repressed because of the deal her MOTHER made. So what about FATHER? Well, the picture that prompted Lee to say father was none other than an upside down triangle, symbolising the devil. Make of that what you will.
YES! and when Lee hears the bang at her door, the modern light fixture hanging over her head as she walks up to the door makes AN UPSIDE DOWN TRIANGLE when viewed through the archway, signalling the devil's presence
u can hear at the ending she’s pulling the trigger on her gun repeatedly but it doesn’t shoot so either she’s out of bullets or her gun jams and she has no choice but to leave it there and take ruby. i think ur theory still holds up tho because she doesn’t try any other way to destroy the doll so still open
I didn’t like this part that type of gun is supposed to hold 6 bullets at full capacity it’s a bulldog 6 shooter she uses only 3 of the bullets so presumably she should have 3 more left but we hear the gun click that click is the sound it makes when there’s no ammunition left it doesn’t make that sound when it jams
Also, I feel like continuing Longlegs' work would be finishing the girl off - the last piece missing in the pattern of families getting destroyed, though the ritual may have been ruined by the father dying before the child... If she had been corrupted it would fit the plot MUCH BETTER to turn around and turn on the girl, or at least to bring the doll along when leaving (if the writers really wanted an open ending). Instead she left the doll - the possible corruption and nightmarish memories of the event - and walked out with the surviving child, away from the influence which might sway someone to target the girl.
Fun Fact: the director of this movie is Oz Perkins who played David in Legally Blonde, but he's also the son of Anthony Perkins who played Norman Bates in the original Psycho. Oz Perkins actually wrote this script with is mother in mind......you should look up the story behind it because the story makes so much sense
I was so glad I read reviews before I saw it because I definitively agree with others that it's more of a thriller and suspense with horror aspects. I loved it a lot more going in with that mindset!
I went in blind with no expectations and thought it was amaaazing! It felt creative and stylized. Ive been insanely bored by the horror genre lately so this was a nice change.
I saw a video saying the first killer was also under the influence of the devil so the reason the killer surrendered so effortlessly to Lee was to show the devil was controlling the situation and wouldn't want the killer to kill Lee. Also at the end, I think she tried to shoot the doll multiple times but ran out of bullets!
@@Shyknit that’s a good question, i think she just didn’t have enough loaded or maybe be was jammed bc to my recollection she shot her boss 2-3 times and her mom once which would have given her 2 left if she filled it up all the way
@@peachimeachi8170 yeah I thought she should have had 2 bullets left too, maybe it represents that Longlegs has won so he's preventing it supernaturally?
@@peachimeachi8170 lee shoots carter twice, once in the shoulder and once in the head, then her mum once. if she filled it up all the way she should have three bullets left. however, you could argue that she was extremely distressed when she left the house and didn't stop to check the gun as she would've been trained to do
Hahahah same. I know some huge horror fans got a bit upset because they felt nick cage made it too campy or silly. But I liked it because at times I needed that bit of comedic relief to calm myself down.
That was me toooo when they weren't really showing his face it was scary but when they fully showed his face I just kept thinking this is Nick Cage lmao
I saw this in the theater on Opening Day and I LOVED it! The shots, the atmosphere, the jump-scares, EVERYTHING was amazing to me! I wish that the twist ending was a tad bit more refined but other than that, it was AMAZING! Cage and the cast nailed it! Definitely a must-see in the theater for SURE!!
if i had a nickel for every time maika monroe survives a serial killer with a spider-themed name, i'd have two nickels -- which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
thanks trin! i’m too scared to watch horror movies in theatres, so i appreciate you explaining the plot for me, cause now i can be a part of the pop-culture moment from the safety of my home 😁🛌
So I posted these snippets of interviews from Oz Perkins where he explains the ending. This is a long read, but you'll get a lot of questions answered: Each paragraph are segments from different interviews where he answers the topic described. On Longlegs' conception "It was built around the character of Longlegs, who was a character that had tried to make himself fit into other projects that I had worked on. When you’re writing all the time and generating specs and no one’s paying you or you don’t have any source material, you’re making shit up all the time. You end up with a universe of things that are swirling around, and you try to pull them out and stick them in. Longlegs was an entity, this shabby - is he a birthday clown? Is he a puppet master? Does he deal with stuffed animals? Is it little pianos? You start to wonder about this person who comes to your kid on their birthday and you’re in another room and you don’t know they’re interacting and that’s weird. He doesn’t abduct the kids because we’ve seen that 1,000 times before. He kind of talks to them. You start to be curious about that. When I decided that I was going to try for a serial killer procedural that was going to be something else, I needed a bad guy. Longlegs was like, “I’ll do it.” In your drawer of ideas, one of them says, “Put me in, coach.” And in goes Longlegs." "The original intention was to make a movie that more people could access, that would please a greater swath of the general audience. I thought the way to do that would be to sort of cue Silence of The Lambs and refresh people's memory of that and their memory of the experience of that, and then snuggle up next to one of the great things of all time as a means of getting into something else, right? Sort of going through the door of that, but then opening up into a different landscape. So that was the intention. That's how I started to move." On the name "We writers just like words. We like how certain words sound and look and shape and feel. Yeah, it has daddy longlegs and a creepy-crawly aspect to it, but it also feels ’70s to me - almost like a Led Zeppelin song or someone would have on the side of their van, something groovy like that. It feels like a vintage word that people wouldn’t toss around much today. It positioned the movie in a weird place. You don’t get to fully understand it. It doesn’t fully fit, which is more alluring to me and creates a curiosity that I think is important." "I don't know if it has meaning or not. It doesn't have meaning. I like words, and it's a good word. It sounds good. It sounds sort of scary but also sort of fun. It sounds pure. It sounds like '70s to me. It sounds like something that maybe Robert Plant would have sung in a Zeppelin song. It has an old pin-up quality to it. It invokes a certain time, I suppose, and there's an awkwardness to it that he has, that the character has sort of an uneasy clumsiness to him. I don't know; it just feels good." On the ending/the goal of the devil "I think the ending for her is about as bad as it could have turned out. Like shooting her mom in the head, that’s about as bad a day as a person can have. So I think that ultimately one could say that the entire movement of the movie-or the entire movement of all of Longlegs’ crimes, starting from crime number one all the way to the Carter family-it’s all about getting this poor girl to a place where she shoots her mom in the head. Like that’s kind of the flourish, the Devil’s ‘Yep, I did that.’ " "That was always the ending. The ending was meant to be tragic. The devil wins again on a small scale. One of the fun things about using the devil as your villain is that the devil never really goes for world domination. The devil always feels like, “I’ll just fuck with this person, I’ll wreck this family, I’ll mess this kid up, I’ll torment this priest.” It’s never like, “I’m going to eat the Vatican.” It never gets to that point for me with the devil. The devil is a little more amusing and playful than that. The story of Lee Harker ends with the ending of the movie. The last shot that she fires is the worst thing that can happen to her." This final tidbit: PERKINS: I've talked about it a little bit. I feel like it is complete for her. Where she has to get to at the end, her final act with her mom is the worst thing that you can do, right? Matricide, let's say, is probably the lowest form of - that's your worst moment, right? You can't be like, “Oh, well, something else sucked worse than that.” So I think the fact that the devil gets it to this place where that's what she has to do, the devil's like, [wipes hands clean]. So it doesn't matter that Ruby's doll has not been broken? PERKINS: Not my problem. MONROE: Hands up on that one. I like that. I feel like that puts my mind at ease a little. PERKINS: It should! It’s contained. It’s done. It’s over.
it's kind of thrilling being a whimp who is into horror isn't it? Like I feel like there's a level of enjoyment and thrill you can get from being more vulnerable to scares that people who enjoy horror but are like able to detach enough not to get scared of most things. The nightmares and baggy eyes the day after are part of the experience lolol
also as someone who is a bit of a whimp but adores the thrill and energy being scared gives me I LOVE the way you break down the fear! Describing what makes you scared helps a lot with contextualizing the type of fear the movie evokes. Like legit your reviews are so thoughtful and kind.
14:19 ion don’t believe it was ever stated that was long legs house. The point of that scene is to show her Psychic abilities. It’s what gets her put on the longlegs case. The director shot it with that intention
I notice when Lee's mom ask did you pray and Lee answer no and the mom laugh and say pray does nothing, because all this time the mom pray for all of this to end but it never stop...
also also that one survivor jumps of the hospital bc long legs told her to when he visited her. i took it as long legs knew he'd be caught on that day and he knew he would die that day so when he visited the survivor he also told her to jump and she did bc she said herself she loved talking to him and she'd do anything for him. the autopsy guy said that he could not get into her doll's metal ball thing bc it was too strong so i don't think her metal ball was every broken. i think she jumped bc long legs told her too not bc she got her memories back
ty so much for the review Trin! you have convinced me this movie is not for me because my birthday is on the 14th of the month and i live in a house with a 7 year old and i just know i’d feel way too connected to it to feel anything but terrified
I love that you’re giving executive realness in this video. I haven’t seen Longlegs yet but it seems like my type of movie based on how you described it in the beginning!
This movie really scared me when I went to watch it the day it came out. Growing up in a really religious household and also having a mother AND sister who are born on the 14th made me so paranoid I had to stay at a friends house afterwards even though I live alone😭
I have this running joke with friends that there are a bunch of undercover Canadians from the amount I've times I've realized someone was Canadian by the way they said something instead of them saying they were Canadian lol
as a subscriber who is SO scared of everything but is such a huge horror fan, thank you so much for this recap !!!! it is very much appreciated by so many of us lol
Trin you're a literal life saver. I recently decided to stop watching horror but I've also been waiting for MONTHS to watch Longlegs, this is perfect!!
I thought it was one of the family killings from the longlegs case that she came upon in that scene from the beginning. Like the man she finds in the house was one of the fathers who had killed his family because of longlegs
I love horror in general and it's such a complex genre because it can be silly, brutal and gory or suspense which is my most favourite type of horror and Longlegs fulfills this!
The way that Lee’s actress played the character and how she was so tense made me so anxious in the movie 😂 idk how people said this movie wasn’t scary I was terrified and kind of amazed by the ending. Thanks for the breakdown!
if i had a penny for every time I’ve quoted “not once, not twice, but as many times as I’d like”, I’d be able to afford therapy for the paranoia this movie gave me
I loved this movie. The whole “is it scary or not” debate is kinda dumb because horror can be so subjective. I think for most people this movie will be either really scary or really unsettling depending on the person. The opening shot and the Polaroid jumpscare actually got me so bad, it’s not even funny 😅 I had a unique theater experience where the lights stayed on during the opening and then turned off title sequence. And I swear it was darker than usual in there. But besides that, the visuals and score of this movie is insane and so so good. The weakest part of this movie is definitely the storytelling; specifically at the end
13:58 its intentionally set up for you to assume the first fbi scene is an introduction to Longlegs so yhat the death of the partner is more abrupt but the entire thing is about a random different unnamed suburban serial killer, and Lee is told about Longlegs for the first time AFTER that case. Different case, different killer, different house.
i saw this last night somewhat reluctantly (bc i too am scared of everything) and behind my bag of popcorn but i thought it was a good horror movie but it wasn’t really revolutionary to me? maybe it’s bc i guessed the general ending based on 2 lines said in the first 30 minutes
The thing is, the First time Lee meets Ruby She asks about a trophy she has on her nightstand. Ruby says ”its head got cut off…and we can’t find it“ then lee says ”oh Thats my jobb……..finding them i mean“ I took that as forshadowing
this made me realize that in the scene right before Lee goes to interrogate longlegs she asks “where is he?” and her female colleague responds “right below you” or something like that bc the interrogation room is downstairs but ALSO BC HE LIVED DOWNSTAIRSSSSS
also don’t know if you caught that in the beginning scene you can see longlegs in the background a couple times (from behind the house when he says cuckoo) and then when the girl is walking behind the house and the house is behind her. it’s hidden really well because of the use of liminal space and cinematography
*spoiler-free review* (0:00-7:07) 1:38 -> _should you go see Longlegs?_ 3:34 -> _how scary is it/what type of horror is it?_ *trin's full recap WITH SPOILERS* (7:12-42:01)
THANK YOU! I am always curious about interesting horror movies but am way too scared to watch it. This was more than enough to sate my curiosity, thank you for your sacrifice.
Trin I literally cannot watch any horror movies cause I’ll get paranoid for life but I looooove it when people tell me the whole story so girl……. love you 🤍
I was just going on a binge watch of all the Girl Who's Scared of Everything and suddenly a NEW ONEEEE *edit* Oh it's a recap video. Maybe call it GWSOE WatcheD Longlegs instead of watches..?
This movie was pretty good and I’m thankful to have gone in with modest expectations cause had I went in with really high expectations (that the ppl on Twitter tried to make me go into the movie in with all the hype) I wouldn’t have liked the movie as much.
About the first case, I assumed the man she finds in the room was one of the dads involved in the Longlegs case, especially because we learn the other dads killed their families. I don't think they have to be completely separate cases just to illustrate Lee's abilities.
I think the best way to describe this movie is a supernatural version of Zodiac (2007) + Thomas Harris's Hannibal series (Specifically the first 2 books/movies).
i just realized that she killed her own mom when all she did was try and protect lee all this time and at the very end she was possessed and didnt actually wanna kill lee
Hey Trin! The killer that shoots Lee’s partner at the beginning is not LongLegs, it’s a completely different case. The FBI is so impressed Lee was able to know that the killer was in that specific house that she is then brought on to the LongLegs case because they need her intuition/psychic abilities to solve it.
This is exactly right. That whole scene is really all about introducing Lee Harker, not only her psychic abilities but also her palpable panic when her partner gets killed so abruptly. It's very effective in getting the audience to watch the rest of the film through Lee's eyes and to understand her paranoid headspace.
Does the film really have supernatural elements?
@TommyDay-kq1jj Yes it does, although they are portrayed in a somewhat vague manner that allows for more than one interpretation. That being said, the narrative on a surface level definitely involves dark magic and Satanic elements throughout.
It's funny I JUST saw it in theaters and had the same misconception (that the first killer is Long legs)
Thanks for helping me understand it better 😅
I assumed that he was one of the dads that was controlled by Longlegs.. does that not make sense?
Oh my god I just realized that when longlegs said “the man downstairs” he wasn’t just referring to the devil, but literally him because he lived beneath the house 😵😵😵😵
No….he dies in the film. It’s the devil he’s referring to that’s why we see constant snake imagery. You’re overthinking things
@@justintime6242 I see your point. However, when longlegs tells Lee to ask her mother about the man downstairs, he is alluding to the fact that he lives downstairs and her mother is the only one that knows. Yes, as I said in my original comment, he is referring to the devil as well. But it is entirely possible that he is referring to both things at once. Longlegs is a devil worshipper who does the devil’s works and is a man who lives downstairs, so that’s why I believe I’m not reading too far into things Justin. Thank you
@@Koda_200 this!!!
I just wanna say your response to Justin made me laugh. Cheers 😂❤️
@@justintime6242it was certainly a play on words.
The first case that Lee goes on when he partner gets shot straight away is a different case, not the longlegs one. Because of her ‘gut feeling’ about the house, Lee is then moved onto the longlegs case
I was also confused at this part I didn’t believe they distinguished it enough
ohhhhhhh that makes so much sense thank you!
@@LovellTrinit’s the devil playing tricks on Lee, long legs is just the middle man
I thought the exact same when I first watched the movie I think the way they setup it made it very easy for the audience to interpret it that way lol
lees ponytail was ponytailing
i noticed this too! i was jealous
And the bangs were bangin
No because the opening scene and jumpscare before the credits is so horrific. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the split second of his face falling down to enter the frame completely.
That was when I started regretting going lol
the flash of images when lee finds the images of longlegs actually made my heart sink in the best way
dude that got me so bad. such GOOD jumpscares in this film. finally
@@Shyknitlmaoo i was ready to get up and leave the theatre after that opening scene like: “f*ck that sh*t I’m out”
@@cherieberryfairy7481 exactly lmao there were too many times I was like "ah hell nah, why am I here?!"
This movie is so sinister. It plays off of a lot of fears that can realistically happen. A creepy dude who’s hanging around you (LIVING IN YOUR BASEMENT!) and yet you have no recollection of his existence until you discover old photos (ooooooh the goosebumps). And then to know your mom has been helping all along, like….
longlegs is said to be kind of an ex rock glamer which may be why he has botched plastic surgery, but also explains the singing and his eccentric-ness (i like to think)
also something to think about is that during the 70s/80s many believed rock music artists sold their souls to the devil
Is this detail in the film? I either completely forgot or missed it. Thank you for reminding me!
The regisseur said this in an interview, how he imagined Longlegs as a former, not successfull glam rocker.
But if you know it, there are a lot of T-Rex Songs and one citation in the beginning of the movie. In one scene you see a cover photo of Marc Bolan, the front man with pale makeup und a big black hat. At first , I thought, it was a picture of Longlegs because they look so much allike.
I saw someone say he got all the plastic surgery to make himself as beautiful he could for when he finally meets the devil in afterlife, which I think makes the most sense
@@Mara-sl3wdyeah there’s a heavy emphasis on rock music throughout his room and especially trex
Girlee why is listening to your review just as scary omllll 😭
Right like her dog is scaring meee
The first killer Lee caught was just a random killer case, but the event leads the FBI to believe she has some psychic power which can help with solving Longlegs
The way her mama wanted to kill her as if she didn't do all this to let her live
Did you hear about that mother? Apparently she broke her daughter’s legs in two. And the worst part of it all is she told her “it’s too dangerous to walk out there so I had to save you” like omg??
@@baddiewise7650 did we watch the same movie??
@@baddiewise7650what
@@sannihith3853 referencing a song actually, the original comment made me think of it
I don't think the mother intended to kill Lee, but intended to kill Ruby.
In the scene near the beginning where Lee is shown abstract shapes and says what word she associates with them, I remember thinking how random the words were - tiger, box, camera, piano, mother, father (I can't remember them all there might be more). But then when she's in her childhood bedroom later on it becomes clear where those words came from. In her room is small PIANO, next to the piano is a BOX, inside the box is a CAMERA and toy TIGER. Of course there is also a picture of Longlegs in the box, so all these things are part of her memories that were repressed because of the deal her MOTHER made. So what about FATHER? Well, the picture that prompted Lee to say father was none other than an upside down triangle, symbolising the devil. Make of that what you will.
YES! and when Lee hears the bang at her door, the modern light fixture hanging over her head as she walks up to the door makes AN UPSIDE DOWN TRIANGLE when viewed through the archway, signalling the devil's presence
The Girl Who's Scared Of Everything Series will forever remain ✨iconic✨🗣️‼️
this one literally shouldn’t count, she reacted to the others….
@@notamberp true-but at least she ate with the video 😹🤭
u can hear at the ending she’s pulling the trigger on her gun repeatedly but it doesn’t shoot so either she’s out of bullets or her gun jams and she has no choice but to leave it there and take ruby. i think ur theory still holds up tho because she doesn’t try any other way to destroy the doll so still open
ur right AHHH i hate when i forget like a really important detail and remember like something stupid instead😭
I didn’t like this part that type of gun is supposed to hold 6 bullets at full capacity it’s a bulldog 6 shooter she uses only 3 of the bullets so presumably she should have 3 more left but we hear the gun click that click is the sound it makes when there’s no ammunition left it doesn’t make that sound when it jams
Also, I feel like continuing Longlegs' work would be finishing the girl off - the last piece missing in the pattern of families getting destroyed, though the ritual may have been ruined by the father dying before the child...
If she had been corrupted it would fit the plot MUCH BETTER to turn around and turn on the girl, or at least to bring the doll along when leaving (if the writers really wanted an open ending).
Instead she left the doll - the possible corruption and nightmarish memories of the event - and walked out with the surviving child, away from the influence which might sway someone to target the girl.
Fun Fact: the director of this movie is Oz Perkins who played David in Legally Blonde, but he's also the son of Anthony Perkins who played Norman Bates in the original Psycho. Oz Perkins actually wrote this script with is mother in mind......you should look up the story behind it because the story makes so much sense
You mean Berry Berenson, who was in the plane that hit the north tower on 9/11?
@@AliceBowie?
I was so glad I read reviews before I saw it because I definitively agree with others that it's more of a thriller and suspense with horror aspects. I loved it a lot more going in with that mindset!
I went in blind with no expectations and thought it was amaaazing! It felt creative and stylized. Ive been insanely bored by the horror genre lately so this was a nice change.
Ur serving female body inspector realness
The car scene near the end nearly killed me
I was looking in the background the whole time in the past scenes so I saw her immediately that was so frustrating/sad
That opening scene scared the shit out of me! I loved the atmosphere of this movie. So glad u covered it thank uuu 🩵
I saw a video saying the first killer was also under the influence of the devil so the reason the killer surrendered so effortlessly to Lee was to show the devil was controlling the situation and wouldn't want the killer to kill Lee. Also at the end, I think she tried to shoot the doll multiple times but ran out of bullets!
Did she shoot six times at the other characters or just not have enough bullets loaded that was confusing
@@Shyknit that’s a good question, i think she just didn’t have enough loaded or maybe be was jammed bc to my recollection she shot her boss 2-3 times and her mom once which would have given her 2 left if she filled it up all the way
@@peachimeachi8170 yeah I thought she should have had 2 bullets left too, maybe it represents that Longlegs has won so he's preventing it supernaturally?
@@peachimeachi8170 lee shoots carter twice, once in the shoulder and once in the head, then her mum once. if she filled it up all the way she should have three bullets left. however, you could argue that she was extremely distressed when she left the house and didn't stop to check the gun as she would've been trained to do
This is why you don't bring a revolver but a semi-automatic pistol.....
every time i started to get scared while watching I just remembered longlegs was nick cage and just burst out laughing I cannot take him seriously
Hahahah same. I know some huge horror fans got a bit upset because they felt nick cage made it too campy or silly. But I liked it because at times I needed that bit of comedic relief to calm myself down.
That was me toooo when they weren't really showing his face it was scary but when they fully showed his face I just kept thinking this is Nick Cage lmao
@@ktsig287that's so silly ! nick cage is the spookiest man in hollywood !! (source: he's spooky)
@demonchildmina hahahahahaha ok I choked on my coffee reading this cuz it's so great. Upon verifying, sources do indeed say....he's spooky! 🤪😂
I saw this in the theater on Opening Day and I LOVED it! The shots, the atmosphere, the jump-scares, EVERYTHING was amazing to me! I wish that the twist ending was a tad bit more refined but other than that, it was AMAZING! Cage and the cast nailed it! Definitely a must-see in the theater for SURE!!
Me too, the twist kind of made the movie fall off for me
if i had a nickel for every time maika monroe survives a serial killer with a spider-themed name, i'd have two nickels -- which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
thanks trin! i’m too scared to watch horror movies in theatres, so i appreciate you explaining the plot for me, cause now i can be a part of the pop-culture moment from the safety of my home 😁🛌
So I posted these snippets of interviews from Oz Perkins where he explains the ending. This is a long read, but you'll get a lot of questions answered:
Each paragraph are segments from different interviews where he answers the topic described.
On Longlegs' conception
"It was built around the character of Longlegs, who was a character that had tried to make himself fit into other projects that I had worked on. When you’re writing all the time and generating specs and no one’s paying you or you don’t have any source material, you’re making shit up all the time. You end up with a universe of things that are swirling around, and you try to pull them out and stick them in. Longlegs was an entity, this shabby - is he a birthday clown? Is he a puppet master? Does he deal with stuffed animals? Is it little pianos? You start to wonder about this person who comes to your kid on their birthday and you’re in another room and you don’t know they’re interacting and that’s weird. He doesn’t abduct the kids because we’ve seen that 1,000 times before. He kind of talks to them. You start to be curious about that. When I decided that I was going to try for a serial killer procedural that was going to be something else, I needed a bad guy. Longlegs was like, “I’ll do it.” In your drawer of ideas, one of them says, “Put me in, coach.” And in goes Longlegs."
"The original intention was to make a movie that more people could access, that would please a greater swath of the general audience. I thought the way to do that would be to sort of cue Silence of The Lambs and refresh people's memory of that and their memory of the experience of that, and then snuggle up next to one of the great things of all time as a means of getting into something else, right? Sort of going through the door of that, but then opening up into a different landscape. So that was the intention. That's how I started to move."
On the name
"We writers just like words. We like how certain words sound and look and shape and feel. Yeah, it has daddy longlegs and a creepy-crawly aspect to it, but it also feels ’70s to me - almost like a Led Zeppelin song or someone would have on the side of their van, something groovy like that. It feels like a vintage word that people wouldn’t toss around much today. It positioned the movie in a weird place. You don’t get to fully understand it. It doesn’t fully fit, which is more alluring to me and creates a curiosity that I think is important."
"I don't know if it has meaning or not. It doesn't have meaning. I like words, and it's a good word. It sounds good. It sounds sort of scary but also sort of fun. It sounds pure. It sounds like '70s to me. It sounds like something that maybe Robert Plant would have sung in a Zeppelin song. It has an old pin-up quality to it. It invokes a certain time, I suppose, and there's an awkwardness to it that he has, that the character has sort of an uneasy clumsiness to him. I don't know; it just feels good."
On the ending/the goal of the devil
"I think the ending for her is about as bad as it could have turned out. Like shooting her mom in the head, that’s about as bad a day as a person can have. So I think that ultimately one could say that the entire movement of the movie-or the entire movement of all of Longlegs’ crimes, starting from crime number one all the way to the Carter family-it’s all about getting this poor girl to a place where she shoots her mom in the head. Like that’s kind of the flourish, the Devil’s ‘Yep, I did that.’ "
"That was always the ending. The ending was meant to be tragic. The devil wins again on a small scale. One of the fun things about using the devil as your villain is that the devil never really goes for world domination. The devil always feels like, “I’ll just fuck with this person, I’ll wreck this family, I’ll mess this kid up, I’ll torment this priest.” It’s never like, “I’m going to eat the Vatican.” It never gets to that point for me with the devil. The devil is a little more amusing and playful than that. The story of Lee Harker ends with the ending of the movie. The last shot that she fires is the worst thing that can happen to her."
This final tidbit:
PERKINS: I've talked about it a little bit. I feel like it is complete for her. Where she has to get to at the end, her final act with her mom is the worst thing that you can do, right? Matricide, let's say, is probably the lowest form of - that's your worst moment, right? You can't be like, “Oh, well, something else sucked worse than that.” So I think the fact that the devil gets it to this place where that's what she has to do, the devil's like, [wipes hands clean].
So it doesn't matter that Ruby's doll has not been broken?
PERKINS: Not my problem.
MONROE: Hands up on that one.
I like that. I feel like that puts my mind at ease a little.
PERKINS: It should! It’s contained. It’s done. It’s over.
NOT ONCE, NOT TWICE, BUT WHENEVER I LIKEEEE 🗣️🗣️🗣️
MOMMYYYY!!!! 👏 DADDDEEEEYYYYYY!!! 👏
On repeat in my brain for a solid week now I’m gonna have to go see it again this week
i heard that the whole theme of the movie is that “just because the devil can” like the devil caused all this chaos, just because he can
Can we talk about how Trin is looking so pretty in this video. Like her hair, her Lee outfit, her nails. Iconic
okay SUIT! okay HOTTIE!
i def thought this said okay SLUT! i was so😭
it's kind of thrilling being a whimp who is into horror isn't it? Like I feel like there's a level of enjoyment and thrill you can get from being more vulnerable to scares that people who enjoy horror but are like able to detach enough not to get scared of most things. The nightmares and baggy eyes the day after are part of the experience lolol
also as someone who is a bit of a whimp but adores the thrill and energy being scared gives me I LOVE the way you break down the fear! Describing what makes you scared helps a lot with contextualizing the type of fear the movie evokes. Like legit your reviews are so thoughtful and kind.
Fr like people that aren’t scared by anything must be so bored
14:19 ion don’t believe it was ever stated that was long legs house. The point of that scene is to show her Psychic abilities. It’s what gets her put on the longlegs case. The director shot it with that intention
I notice when Lee's mom ask did you pray and Lee answer no and the mom laugh and say pray does nothing, because all this time the mom pray for all of this to end but it never stop...
literally just got home from the movie theater after watching this movie, impeccable timing trin 💖
no me too
girl you look amazing!! thank you for continuing the girl whos scared of everything seriesssss im scared tooo
also also that one survivor jumps of the hospital bc long legs told her to when he visited her. i took it as long legs knew he'd be caught on that day and he knew he would die that day so when he visited the survivor he also told her to jump and she did bc she said herself she loved talking to him and she'd do anything for him. the autopsy guy said that he could not get into her doll's metal ball thing bc it was too strong so i don't think her metal ball was every broken. i think she jumped bc long legs told her too not bc she got her memories back
I think they wanted to open it but the forensic guy said that there was no use cause there was nothing in it
they ended up opening the ball anyways
ty so much for the review Trin! you have convinced me this movie is not for me because my birthday is on the 14th of the month and i live in a house with a 7 year old and i just know i’d feel way too connected to it to feel anything but terrified
This movie is a disturbing masterpiece needs too be seen multiple times
the way i watched this movie unfazed but the stills that you inserted randomly actually made me shit myself and have a heart attack, thanks loved it!!
I love that you’re giving executive realness in this video. I haven’t seen Longlegs yet but it seems like my type of movie based on how you described it in the beginning!
Girl you look so good in that suit, ur slaying lately! love this channel !!!
This movie really scared me when I went to watch it the day it came out. Growing up in a really religious household and also having a mother AND sister who are born on the 14th made me so paranoid I had to stay at a friends house afterwards even though I live alone😭
this was my birthday movie and I think the consensus between us leaving the theater was "huh that was weird"
She ran out of ammo. She didn't "choose not to shoot the doll".
Trin, you are SERVING as always.
I didn’t know trin was Canadian until I heard the way she says “room” in this video 😭
I have this running joke with friends that there are a bunch of undercover Canadians from the amount I've times I've realized someone was Canadian by the way they said something instead of them saying they were Canadian lol
i thought she was from Texas? 😭
@@kayleeb6301i thought so too, i swear she mentioned it when talking abt her cheer years too
Me 2@@kayleeb6301
as a subscriber who is SO scared of everything but is such a huge horror fan, thank you so much for this recap !!!! it is very much appreciated by so many of us lol
Trin you're a literal life saver. I recently decided to stop watching horror but I've also been waiting for MONTHS to watch Longlegs, this is perfect!!
I thought it was one of the family killings from the longlegs case that she came upon in that scene from the beginning. Like the man she finds in the house was one of the fathers who had killed his family because of longlegs
I love horror in general and it's such a complex genre because it can be silly, brutal and gory or suspense which is my most favourite type of horror and Longlegs fulfills this!
The way that Lee’s actress played the character and how she was so tense made me so anxious in the movie 😂 idk how people said this movie wasn’t scary I was terrified and kind of amazed by the ending. Thanks for the breakdown!
18:10 The Cullen house for reference LMAO
This movie scared the living piss out of me and I watch scary movies often. Just something about the way he looks gives me the chills lol
SAME
I needed a video on the X trilogy with MaXXXine ranking them yesterday !!!!
if i had a penny for every time I’ve quoted “not once, not twice, but as many times as I’d like”, I’d be able to afford therapy for the paranoia this movie gave me
I loved this movie. The whole “is it scary or not” debate is kinda dumb because horror can be so subjective. I think for most people this movie will be either really scary or really unsettling depending on the person. The opening shot and the Polaroid jumpscare actually got me so bad, it’s not even funny 😅 I had a unique theater experience where the lights stayed on during the opening and then turned off title sequence. And I swear it was darker than usual in there. But besides that, the visuals and score of this movie is insane and so so good. The weakest part of this movie is definitely the storytelling; specifically at the end
13:58 its intentionally set up for you to assume the first fbi scene is an introduction to Longlegs so yhat the death of the partner is more abrupt but the entire thing is about a random different unnamed suburban serial killer, and Lee is told about Longlegs for the first time AFTER that case. Different case, different killer, different house.
i saw this last night somewhat reluctantly (bc i too am scared of everything) and behind my bag of popcorn but i thought it was a good horror movie but it wasn’t really revolutionary to me? maybe it’s bc i guessed the general ending based on 2 lines said in the first 30 minutes
Trin this is genuinely so funny, love your takes
i literally just got back from seeing longlegs this is PERFECT timing
Seeing the shadow figures of the devil literally scared me every time and seeing the red eyes in the dolls terrified me
The thing is, the First time Lee meets Ruby She asks about a trophy she has on her nightstand. Ruby says ”its head got cut off…and we can’t find it“ then lee says ”oh Thats my jobb……..finding them i mean“
I took that as forshadowing
I just came back from seeing it, this came at the perfect time!
this made me realize that in the scene right before Lee goes to interrogate longlegs she asks “where is he?” and her female colleague responds “right below you” or something like that bc the interrogation room is downstairs but ALSO BC HE LIVED DOWNSTAIRSSSSS
Correction on the very end; she DOES shoot the doll, you can hear the clicks of the empty revolver though
“What if he bites me” Trin I’m cackling
i never knew nicolas cage could make me feel this unsettled
also don’t know if you caught that in the beginning scene you can see longlegs in the background a couple times (from behind the house when he says cuckoo) and then when the girl is walking behind the house and the house is behind her. it’s hidden really well because of the use of liminal space and cinematography
I love your videos Trin! Thanks for being you.
Omg you look like a business woman and I'm living
*spoiler-free review* (0:00-7:07)
1:38 -> _should you go see Longlegs?_
3:34 -> _how scary is it/what type of horror is it?_
*trin's full recap WITH SPOILERS* (7:12-42:01)
LMAO not the Cullen’s house being used as a reference photo 💀
also at the end of the movie i thought lee didn't shoot the doll bc she ran out of bullets. she tried but nothing happened
10:33 Knowing that Nicolas Cage is starring in this movie actually makes me want to watch it.
Thats it?💀
the jumpscares of longlegs in this video are scarier than the movie itself
Thanks Trin! i genuinely don’t have the time to see movies so when i seen you covered it happy to be honest😅❤
I miss when you actually use to watch the movies on video
you should do a review/video on "I Used To Be Funny" starring rachel sonnett its sooo good !
YESSS IVE BEEN WAITING
I’m too broke to watch this in the movie theater so thank u for watching it for me
unrelated but your hair looks magnificent here
THANK YOU! I am always curious about interesting horror movies but am way too scared to watch it. This was more than enough to sate my curiosity, thank you for your sacrifice.
Longlegs (2024) is one of the best and most disturbing movies of 2024 so far.
hair is givinggg
Yay, a new Trin video! ❤
she watched LONGLEGS so WE HAVE TO
Trin I literally cannot watch any horror movies cause I’ll get paranoid for life but I looooove it when people tell me the whole story so girl……. love you 🤍
I was just going on a binge watch of all the Girl Who's Scared of Everything and suddenly a NEW ONEEEE
*edit* Oh it's a recap video. Maybe call it GWSOE WatcheD Longlegs instead of watches..?
Nicholas Cage's voice was so chilling as Longlegs. prob one of the creepiest horror characters
FINALLY watching this video queen I love you ! took me ten thousand years bc I had to wait for it to come on stremio 💀
thank you for watching it so I don't have to.. this girl is too scared
This movie was pretty good and I’m thankful to have gone in with modest expectations cause had I went in with really high expectations (that the ppl on Twitter tried to make me go into the movie in with all the hype) I wouldn’t have liked the movie as much.
About the first case, I assumed the man she finds in the room was one of the dads involved in the Longlegs case, especially because we learn the other dads killed their families. I don't think they have to be completely separate cases just to illustrate Lee's abilities.
I think the best way to describe this movie is a supernatural version of Zodiac (2007) + Thomas Harris's Hannibal series (Specifically the first 2 books/movies).
"Shes talking in old Irish riddles" LMFAO 😂😂😂
Your outfits are always so cute
i just realized that she killed her own mom when all she did was try and protect lee all this time and at the very end she was possessed and didnt actually wanna kill lee
oh god there's no way i could have survived watching this myself 😭 thank u trin for helping scaredy cats like me 🙏♥
This movie had me wishing I had a night light in my room. So disturbing and creepy
She actually tries to shoot the doll at the end, but she ran out of bullets
So no one's gonna mention how the house (18:13) is a 100% the Cullen house ??
You’re giving Elle from Kill Bill Vol. 2 with this fit 😍
Just needs an eye patch 😊
BTW I named my cat after Elle because she has a colour eye patch, she is10 years old