skeptical of the online hype that Longlegs is the scariest movie of 2024 because I remember when everyone was going on about The Empty Man and that skeleton with the big hands didn't even get up and stomp around
Longlegs isn't scary beyond some Editing Room Jumpscares, and the plotting is too floppy to really get tense... but it, somehow, cultivates this weirdly elegant and stately sense of discomfort and aseptic unpleasantness that felt effective
