Guillermo del Toro is full of praise for the year's scariest horror movie, as he describes Nicolas Cage as an "evil Tiny Tim"

Longlegs
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꧒Horror maestro Guillermo del Toro has nothing but praise for the year's scariestဣ movie. 

Longlegs, starring Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe and directed by Osgood Perkins, has made he🧸adlines thanks to just how terrifying it is – and del Toro has taken to to share his own thoughts on thꦡe movie. 

"LONGLEGS (2024) A great Oz Perkins film- 1🦄00% his vibe. It is comforting when a colleague fares well while staying faithful to the rhythms and motifs💦 that have made his career. His metronome, his meticulous composition and his uncanny sense of evil and impending doom," he wrote. 

"Loved that evil Tiny-Tim-esque Cage (our last and best expressionist performer) the Satanic Panic gloom: a closed maze where evil eats the casual stroller.  And Perkins' odd, super-dry (quasi exfoliating) h⛎umor: T-Rex, the occasional ironic line 'You'll still be in the kitchen,'" he added, before finishing: "It's not horror as usual, or a thriller as usual.  It bares the same preoccupations Oz has had from the start and his Cosmic dread. It is his vibe and signature and I am delighted he is getting more people to know it."

Longlegs scored a record breaking opening weekend for distributor Neon, though it fell short of dethroning 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Despicable Me 4 at the box office. 

"I can't look at real things. I don't like them. They don't sit well with me. I don't want to know," 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Perkins told us recently. "All this stuff couldn't be more fictionalized and totally made up. That's part of the fun of it [for] mܫe. It's like, 'Oh, that's how FBI people probably talk. Oh, that's how they would probably come into a room. I don't know, maybe it's something like this'. It's part of what keeps it light for me, honestly. I'm not interested in what these sickos do. To me, this is a different kind of poem, you know, and it's totally🔯 just make believe."

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Molly Edwards
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