Starring: Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Alicia Witt, Blair Underwood
OUR RATING: ★★★½
Story: Crime horror thriller written and directed by Osgood Perkins. Longlegs (2024) centers on FBI Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) who is assigned to an unsolved serial killer (Nicolas Cage) case that takes an unexpected turn, revealing evidence of the occult. But when Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer, she must stop him before he strikes again.
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Terrifying Longlegs Quotes
Longlegs: There she is, the Almost Birthday Girl. Oh, but it seems I wore my long legs today. What happens if I…?
Agent Carter: Half-psychic is better than not psychic at all, I’d say.
Agent Carter: Ten houses, ten families, over the past thirty years, and all of them signed with one word, “Longlegs”. Someone or something is making the fathers do it. So far, we’ve been goddamned to figure out what or who.
Ruby Carter: Is it scary being a lady FBI agent?
Agent Lee Harker: Yeah. Yeah, it is.
Agent Lee Harker: I don’t think the Bureau has a division for nice things.
Ruth Harker: Lee, honey, our prayers protect us from the Devil.
Longlegs: I know you’re not afraid of a little bit of dark, because you are the dark.
Longlegs: Daddy! Mommy! Unmake me! And save me from the hell of living!
Agent Lee Harker: How are you feeling today, Carrie Anne?
Carrie Anne Camera: Different. It’s like a long dream, and so dark. A world of dark. Like a nowhere between here and there. What’s that called? Doing the limbo?
Agent Carter: [to Lee] You know, last week, this investigation is ice-cold. Then you come on to it, and all of a sudden, it’s flowing like, I don’t know, hot lava. What aren’t you telling me?
Ruth Harker: Do you still say your prayers?
Agent Lee Harker: No, Mom. I never said my prayers, never once. They scared me.
Ruth Harker: You’re right. All our prayers don’t help us. Prayers don’t do a goddamn thing.
Ruth Harker: This is a cruel world. Especially for the little things. Not all of them are allowed to live.
Longlegs: [singing] Let me in now! And it can be nice. Make me go now, and I’ll have to come back. Not once. Not twice. But as many times as I like!
Longlegs: I’m a friend of a friend.
Ruth Harker: What friend?
Longlegs: My friend. That lives downstairs.
Ruth Harker: Downstairs? Downstairs from where?
Longlegs: Everywheres. You can even call him “Mr. Downstairs”.
Longlegs: The seventh “she”. To be given the same choice that they’ve all been given. Crimson or clover. Accept the gift, and destroy it, and destroy yourself, and yourselves, or keep it, and bow down. Bow all the way down, and get right down to the dirty, dirty work. Work that gets dirty as it cleans. Like a mop. Like a rag.
Longlegs: Yes. I am done, but I won’t only be in here. I’ll be a little bit of everywhere. Waiting, in the wings. In the father’s wings.
Ruth Harker: Once upon a time, there was a girl named Lee. She lived in a little house with her mother, and no one ever came to visit them. No family. No big, bad wolves. No anyone. One day, a man did come, a doll maker.
Ruth Harker: The doll maker started his work, his terrible magic. The work of the Devil, with a little bit of him in every one. The doll made the little girl forget, and told her where to look and what not to see. The Devil wanted the little girl for his own, but her mother could never let that happen.
Longlegs: You could’ve made nice with me, but you didn’t, and now that has led to all of this.
Ruth Harker: So her mother begged for the little girl’s life to be spared. In exchange, she would have to help him.
Ruth Harker: If they don’t die, then we will burn, and twist, and burn, and twist, in hell, forever, and ever.
Ruth Harker: I’m doing this for you, just like I’ve always done. So that the little girl named Lee would be allowed to grow up, and that makes it right, and so I’ll do it again, and again, and again. And I’ll do it until I stand upon the sand of the sea, and I see a beast rise up out of the sea. Hail Satan.