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This article was published on July 13, 2024.Longlegsis nowstreaming on Hulu.
This inspires manic puzzle-solving reminiscent of David Finchers sleuths inSe7enandZodiac.And so on and so forth.
Whats different about this new chiller bywriter-director Oz Perkinsis its embrace of the supernatural.
The homes are practically replicas, yet she somehow knows thatthisis the one theyre looking for and shes right.
Her partner knocks on the door and is met with a bullet.
This culminates in a Satanic-possession plot that eschews the pseudo-realism ofLonglegss detective-thriller forebears.
Harkers lonely investigations are often interrupted by jump scares courtesy of dark apparitions with the silhouettes of nesting dolls.
As such, the investigation demands a bit of magical thinking.
Conventional logic is futile here, underscoring the films dread and delirium.
Fictional women detectives have a distinct relationship to murder, at least symbolically.
This existential discomfort simmers throughoutLonglegs.
The Satanic dolls then do the rest by essentially brainwashing fathers to enact brutally spectacular versions of domestic homicide.
Before this bloody send-off, he implicates Ruth without explaining the extent to which she is involved.
Then she zooms off to Carters home.
Its the 14th Rubys birthday and Ruth is already there when her daughter arrives.
We see Ruby admire her new gift: one of Longlegss cursed dolls.
By the end, however, it appears shes started drinking the condemned Kool-Aid.
The camera takes the damned objects point of view and looks down the barrel of Harkers gun.
In these final moments, we dont see her pull the trigger.
Has she too been caught in Satans grip?
