The Serial Killer genre has been played out over the decades and yet there is still an audience for it. For someone like me, who wants a peek into dark minds and how they operate, such films provide a myriad kaleidoscope of reasons behind brutality. Not just films, but now true crime documentaries also unmask these men and women and try to create a narrative that can eventually close a door behind us.
To me Serial Killer films start with something like Silence of the Lambs and also pivot to Poirot-Marple-Agatha Christie Universe. Although I will admit that Slasher films and Serial Killer films only differ in terms of brutality and reason; nonetheless both are enjoyable (to me). The fear of the chase is stark and brutal in Slasher films but in Serial Killer films it is a psychological tease.
Longlegs, falls more in line with a serial killer film trope, and it also has some strokes of supernatural and horror. Set in the 90s and against the snowy and desolate American landscape, which is interrupted by the ruthless murders that appear more like a cult. The half psychic or highly intuitive Agent Harker is emotionless but alert and we follow her while she chases the ghostly and ghastly Nicholas Cage who makes a brief appearance; But definitely worth it.
I would say it is worth a watch but the slow speed might not appeal to all. Oh and Of course the killings are also there.
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