#436: Killer Instincts, Pt. 2 — Longlegs

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Osgood Perkins’ new LONGLEGS shares some clear narrative and thematic DNA with THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, but it’s much more bizarre and divisive in its approach to horror-adjacent serial killer storytelling than Jonathan Demme’s crowd-pleasing, Oscar-sweeping hit. We’re joined again this week by critic and author Charles Bramesco to talk through the varying degrees to which we vibed with Perkins’ style and Nicolas Cage’s central performance, before bringing LONGLEGS’ predecessor back into the conversation to compare the points of overlap and distinction between these two films about newbie female FBI agents, unconventional serial killers, and the traumatic backstories that drive them both. And in Your Next Picture Show we take stock of Oz Perkins’ small but already idiosyncratic directorial filmography to date. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, LONGLEGS, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email or voice memo to [email protected], or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.1	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:41.8	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:45.2	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:53.3	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Scott Tobias here again with Tasha Robinson. Just Tasha. No
0:59.4	Keith, no Genevieve. But once again, we have our special guest, Charles Bremesco. Hello, Charles.
1:05.8	Hello. I'm glad to be here. We're visiting as morbid subject matter as possible.
1:11.2	Yeah, the week just flew by, didn't it?
1:12.7	It just flew by.
1:13.5	And now you're back.
1:14.7	In our last episode, we discussed Jonathan Deme's The Silence of the Lambs.
1:18.2	And now we're going to dig into Long Legs, the bizarre and audacious new horror movie by Osgood Perkins. After a brief prologue in rural Oregon in the 1970s, long legs jumps ahead to the
1:29.5	1990s when Lee Harker, a newly recruited FBI agent played by Micah Monroe, has been assigned
1:36.0	to help investigate a perplexing decades-long series of murder suicides that have taken place in homes
1:41.4	across the state. The crimes are always perpetuated by the father
1:44.9	who murders his wife and children before taking his own life, and they're accompanied by a satanic
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