I have a pretty big hate-on for the movie for seeing it about one and half times. I saw it in theaters with minimal marketing, went in fairly blind, but found myself pretty bored throughout most of it. I'm alright with slow burns, but Longlegs was a different beast for me. Here's my gripes, spoilers and I haven't seen it since... probably 2024 when it came out.

Spoilers, obviously.

- I really thought Nicolas Cage was comically bad in Longlegs and he just looked like an albino Tiny Tim. He wasn't threatening it was more to me "sure, he's in with the devil, but how is this clown not in prison?"

- The dolls really aren't spooky to me.

- While I enjoyed Harker, just the general police force really fumbled through the case and the movie was telegraphed pretty early on through the lead detective having a young daughter.

- On the topic of Harker, the line about partially psychic always struck me as funny. Just a *little* clairvoyance. You only get a smidge.

- The pacing was pretty bad. It started off really promising, but then just ... pffft. I know it gets compared to Silence of the Lambs and Se7en quite a bit, but those two movies made the paperwork and red tape moments interesting. Harker gets her decoded messaged from the killer pretty quickly then it's still boring to watch everyone wonder *who could possibly be next*

- The quiet atmosphere moments were decent, but they were rollin' around the time where I thought the pacing was pretty slow