If you’ve heard of Longlegs at all, it’s because of its mysterious marketing campaign that’s been trickling out for nearly 6 months. I normally don’t talk about a film’s marketing campaign in its review, but I feel like it’s necessary to mention for Longlegs because I think the marketing has misrepresented the film ever so slightly.
Longlegs is indeed cryptic and creepy, but it’s more straightforward narratively than the marketing suggests. That’s not a bad thing mind you, but Longlegs is not some unknowable revolutionary film. It is unabashedly a throwback to 90s serial killer films with a ritualistic bend thrown in for good measure.
Every once in a while, I get caught in a tug of war with my expectations for a film versus what it actually is, and in cases like that where I’m unsure of how I feel about a film, I’ll watch it again. Perhaps the fact that I was willing to watch Longlegs twice in one week is as much of a review as anyone would need, but I can confirm the implication there holds.
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