'Longlegs' is a (satanic) panic

By Glen Weldon,

Hafsa Fathima, Jordan Morris, Kristen Meinzer, Jessica Reedy, Rommel Wood

Published July 15, 2024 at 9:58 AM EDT

Maika Monroe in a scene from <em>Longlegs</em>. — Maika Monroe in a scene from *Longlegs*.

They're calling it the scariest movie of the year. The new horror film Longlegs follows FBI special agent Lee Harker (Mika Monroe) tracking a serial killer in the 1990s. If that sounds like familiar ground, consider this – the clues she follows hint at the involvement of the occult in general and Satanism in particular. And the killer in question: Nicolas Cage, uncaged.

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