{"id":626856,"date":"2024-07-07T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-nicolas-cage-worms-his-way-into-your-nightmares\/"},"modified":"2024-07-07T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T23:00:00","slug":"watch-nicolas-cage-worms-his-way-into-your-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-nicolas-cage-worms-his-way-into-your-nightmares\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Nicolas Cage Worms His Way Into Your Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37079559c1d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37079559c1d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-nicolas-cage-worms-his-way-into-your-nightmares\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Nicolas_Cage_Worms_His_Way_Into_Your_Nightmares%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Nicolas Cage Worms His Way Into Your Nightmares&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-nicolas-cage-worms-his-way-into-your-nightmares\/#%E2%80%9CNicolas_Cage_Worms_His_Way_Into_Your_Nightmares%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Nicolas Cage Worms His Way Into Your Nightmares&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Nicolas_Cage_Worms_His_Way_Into_Your_Nightmares%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Nicolas Cage Worms His Way Into Your Nightmares&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNicolas_Cage_Worms_His_Way_Into_Your_Nightmares%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Nicolas Cage Worms His Way Into Your Nightmares&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Now here\u2019s a first: Apart from the pale-faced freak show of the film\u2019s title, the experience of watching \u201cLonglegs\u201d didn\u2019t strike me as all that frightening. At first. In the moment, it\u2019s considerably less scary than the ecstatic early buzz \u2014 ginned up by Neon via whisper campaigns and strategic advance screenings \u2014 would have you believe. Less than 12 hours after seeing it, however, the demented Nicolas Cage character resurfaced in my nightmares, popping up out of nowhere to screech, \u201cHail Satan!\u201d in that unnerving, high-pitched voice of his.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    How many horror <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> can claim to hijack your subconscious? With \u201cLonglegs,\u201d writer-director Osgood Perkins (\u201cThe Blackcoat\u2019s Daughter\u201d) delivers the kind of payoff we sought out as kids, daring ourselves to watch films about boogeymen that made us want to sleep with the lights on. Here, Cage plays a clearly unwell rural dollmaker who crafts life-size effigies of his victims that inexplicably cause their families to turn homicidal. It\u2019s one thing to fear being hacked to bits by a stranger and quite another to imagine your own parents raising an ax against you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Probably a good thing that \u201cLonglegs\u201d comes with an R rating \u2014 and potentially a negative one in that such restrictions will do little to deter precocious young viewers, who don\u2019t need a Satan-worshipping kook like Longlegs rattling around in their brains. While not always logical (and downright preposterous in the final stretch), Perkins\u2019 film goes after your inner child, focusing on a killing spree whose victims are girls with just one thing in common: They were all born on the 14th of the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    You know who else was born on the 14th? Lee Harker, an FBI rookie played by Maika Monroe. The \u201cIt Follows\u201d star looks younger than her years here \u2014 like a girl who decided to dress up as Clarice Starling for Halloween. Hannibal Lecter movies \u201cManhunter\u201d and \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d were obvious influences on Perkins, who <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to have cobbled \u201cLonglegs\u201d together out of effective tactics from other horror movies, alternating slow, ominous scenes with disorienting elliptical cuts for maximum dread. There\u2019s the religious fanaticism of recent nunsploitation movies, as well as the Zodiac Killer-style messages, written in cryptic runes that are indecipherable except for the signature: Longlegs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That nickname applies to an instantly iconic Nicolas Cage creation, no less disturbing than Max Schreck\u2019s hunchbacked Nosferatu, a performance that has been a career-long inspiration for Cage. Like that early screen vampire, Longlegs puts us on edge with his twisted body language and exaggerated gestures \u2014 that, plus odd framing that crops him off at the head, explains how the character manages to worm his way into our brains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Visually, audiences can scarcely tell it\u2019s Cage beneath all that makeup: With his stringy white hair, pasty foundation and faded pink uniform, he look less like a man than an androgynous cross between Bette Davis in \u201cWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane?\u201d and kindly character actor Celia Weston, who played the mom in \u201cJunebug.\u201d These are hardly your typical horror archetypes, and yet, once the film\u2019s ultimate scheme is revealed, it leaves a more unsettling imprint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    We first see Longlegs driving up to an innocent girl\u2019s white country house in a station wagon \u2014 easily the least threatening of cars, rendered ominous by DP Andres Arochi\u2019s framing. The opening sequence is stylized to suggest a grainy home movie, with its vintage Kodak colors and rounded corners. Later, the frame expands to full anamorphic widescreen, creating a coffin-like shape that tends to isolate characters in threatening environments. As Cage interacts with what he calls \u201cthe almost birthday girl,\u201d playing a twisted <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> of peekaboo, his demeanor suggests an incompetent clown or a bachelor uncle \u2014 one of those maladroit adults who grossly misjudge how to interact with kids. He\u2019s the kind of sinister stranger little girls are well advised not to approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    From this prologue, the film jumps forward from the \u201970s to the Clinton administration to find Lee participating in an FBI search. She shows an almost psychic intuition as to the culprit\u2019s whereabouts, but that isn\u2019t enough to spare her partner, whose abrupt exit establishes how shocking the film\u2019s violence can be. There\u2019s a certain laziness to the storytelling, as Perkins relies on tired serial-killer tropes to skip over the film\u2019s more egregious contrivances. (Lee\u2019s personal connection to Longlegs is a coincidence too far, and the never-explained demonic orbs are more hokey than horrific.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Rather than recycling the genre\u2019s boilerplate elements, Perkins s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s away most of the procedural bits and concentrates on distinguishing details: the eccentric mental hospital chief who dresses like a pimp, or the girl at the hardware store who might have been a victim in another movie, but instead deflates Longlegs\u2019 menace when she quips, \u201cDad, that gross guy\u2019s here again!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Perkins understands that jump scares are but one of the pleasures of a successful horror movie (same goes for shotgun-toting figures creeping just out of focus in the background). Destabilizing audience expectations and relieving tension with unforeseen bursts of absurdity are every bit as important \u2014 both tactics he employs with expert precision. It\u2019s a shame, then, that all these ingredients are in service of such an inadequate plot. Of course the authorities are stumped by these occult killings, since the explanation is supernatural rather than psychological. What doesn\u2019t make sense is why they have such a hard time solving the case. Or why Longlegs exits the movie so early (but not before submitting to an unforgettable interrogation). Just don\u2019t be surprised to see him resurface in your dreams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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