Popcorn Zombies

By Graham Craycraft Longlegs is Oz Perkins’ fourth film as a director and third film in which he both directed and wrote. A 2025 film based on Stephen King’s The Monkey is currently in post production.  Longlegs is a horror film starring Maika Monroe and Nicholas Cage that begins with intensity that seldom lets up for the one hour 41 minute runtime. Monroe plays Lee Harker- an FBI agent with some unexplained supernatural powers that is a perfect fit to hunt mysterious serial killer Longlegs (Cage). Longlegs appears to be killing people, entire families, without ever making direct contact with them; so, what is the FBI to do? Harker is assigned to the case and with her esp makes immediate headway.  As the investigation progresses, the horror takes a deep and skin-crawling turn when we learn that Harker is somehow connected with Longlegs and that these killings are demonic. Cage gives a fantastic performance as essentially a servant of Satan. One could almost feel bad for him...

  By Michael Momper Can a movie be morally irresponsible? Where should we draw that line? I submit to you that it can, and I think you will agree. Consider two subjects: tone and content. When a movie's tone is problematic, even if the intentions are good, we might have a compromised piece of art. Consider a movie about a real serial killer that fumbles the tone so badly that you actually root for the killer, or find him charming and likeable. Rightfully, audiences call this out as irresponsible filmmaking- the killer had real victims, and likely living, still-grieving families, so whatever the intentions of the filmmakers it is still important to never let the film revel in the evil of its subject. Content is a slightly thornier subject. If you've read our blog, you know that Graham and I are no prudes. We aren't going to call out a film as "morally irresponsible" just for having some nudity and lots of swearing. However, a piece of art that glorifies evil is som...