‘Longlegs’ Lives up to Its Title as It Nears Major Global Box Office Milestone

Maika Monroe stars as Lee Harker in emLonglegs /em(2024).

The Big Picture Recording an excellent performance in its second weekend of release, Neon’s Longlegs is proving to be a summer surprise. The horror-thriller retained a spot in the top five of the domestic box office chart this weekend, while inching closer to a major global milestone. Longlegs is directed by Osgood Perkins, and stars Maika Monroe in the lead role alongside Nicolas Cage as the titular character.

But with A24 leveling up to bigger budgets this year, there’s a vacuum in the marketplace for director-driven genre movies. Already, Longlegs is Neon’s second-biggest domestic box office release, ahead of 2017’s I, Tonya, and behind only director Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, which made $53 million in its domestic box office run five years ago. Longlegs has already out-performed recent Neon releases such as Ferrari , Triangle of Sadness , and Immaculate .

Longlegs has drawn comparisons to Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure. The movie opened to excellent reviews, with praise being directed at Perkins’ command over atmosphere, and Cage’s performance as the titular serial killer. Longlegs holds a “fresh” approval rating of 86% on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, and was produced on a reported budget of less than $10 million.

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