Writer-Director Oz Perkins On Conjuring Up Scares For Cult Horror-Thriller ‘Longlegs’: “I’m The Only Arbiter Of What’s Good”
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT:This interview contains plot details for the film Longlegs Oz Perkins didn’t mean to scare you.
Despite creating one of the year’s most jarring atmospheric horror thrillers, Perkins swears his cinematic concoction was cool and (allegedly) accidental.
Longlegs, written and directed by Perkins, follows intuitive FBI agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe), who is tasked with investigating a series of gruesome unsolved murders spanning from the 1970s to the present Clinton era of the 1990s being carried out by a potential supernatural entity known as Longlegs (Nicolas Cage).
Here, with Deadline, Perkins unpacks creating nuanced character dynamics, his fascination with women in horror and using his own narrative to create scares. DEADLINE: First off, this movie is terrifying.
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