“Most Iconic Horror Cage”: Nicolas Cage’s “Truly Terrifying” 2024 Horror Movie Gets Rave Early Reactions
Early reactions to Nicolas Cage’s film Longlegs are rave reviews. Longlegs is an upcoming horror movie that tells the story of an FBI agent who discovers a series of occult clues to solve while she searches for a serial killer. Longlegs is written and directed by Oz Perkins and features a leading cast including Cage, Maika Monroe, Alicia Witt, Erin Boyes, Blair Underwood, Dakota Daulby, and Lisa Chandler.
As per an exclusive interview with Screen Rant, Hollywood producers Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum discuss their reactions to Longlegs. Check out their full quotes below:
Ken Kao: Yeah. I don't really watch that many horror movies anymore, but we were like, "I watched this thing and I was bothered. I was really bothered." [Laughs]
Josh Rosenbaum: Yeah. I saw it at 10:00 AM with our team, because we were thinking about getting involved, just to help with the release a little bit. And it was just like, to be scared out of my god---n mind at 10 AM, I was like, "Oh my God, what did I sign up for?" It's truly terrifying. And wait until you see the new trailer that Neon just cooked up. It's so good. I'm very curious to see, because I think it's films like The Witch and It Follows that really got me into horror as an elevated genre. That got me really excited, because I loved The Shining and Alien growing up. But it had been a while for me to get really excited. And so I'm really intrigued to see. The arthouse horror fan base is going to flock to this. It is up there.
But I think I'm very curious to see what's going to happen with the broader horror audience, when it's backing these films that are making $50 million-plus in the box office, because it stands alone. I think it's been very interesting that Neon has not done any marketing about Nicolas Cage, because he's iconic in this film. But Oz's film stands alone already. It is so good, it could have been anyone in that role. It could have been a complete no one, and it would've been just as good, but the fact that it's Nic Cage, once you see it — I love that they're hiding it, because they could almost just not touch that until after the film is out and just let people go see —well, it's hard to say the most iconic Nicolas Cage character, but it's certainly the most iconic horror Cage. I don't know.
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