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Longlegs (Perkins 2024)
Episode 132
Monday, 12 January, 2026
Longlegs (Perkins 2024) While we think Osgood Perkins seems to be a genuinely wonderful human, sadly this film is not wonderful. This is not so much a movie as it is a series of trope vignettes with similar production desgin. Longlegs is all vibes with no substance; no character development, no timeline, no rationales, and no real reasons for anything. In many ways it’s a perfect film for the TikTok era, and we don’t mean that as a compliment. Laura started out thinking Marshall would hate the film. While he didn’t initially, through our discussion we found out she was absolutely correct to think that. This is not what we want in our horror films, without some cohesion of diegetic reality, there is no real fear, no real horror. There is lots more of our podcast! Please listen, review, subscribe, and tell your friends. SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE Longlegs Minor spoilers for The Conjuring Silence of the Lambs Se7en Smile Dahmer Story of a Monster TOPIC INDEX – Longlegs (Perkins 2024) (times are approximate) 0:30 – Introductions 3:45 – Film discussion begins 4:30 – Laura’s overall thoughts and The Age of Cage 6:00 – ethical challenges of serial killer films 7:00 – The most hated of the films we’ve discussed on the podcast and where LongLegs stands 8:30 – vibes movies 11:00 – Marshall on Nic Cage 13:30 – SPOILERS section begins 14:00 – Laura on Nic Cage 15:00 – the ethics of glorifying serial killers 20:30 – back to LongLegs 23:00 – lack of character development 42:00 – a modern fairy tale 48:00 – the ending 52:00 – serial killer genre vs possession genre 58:00 – popularity of the film 1:01:30 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility 1:05:00 – Marshall’s thoughts on Twisters Related Episodes Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (Berlinger 2019) The Conjuring (Wan 2013) Prisoners (Villeneuve 2013) Related Films Talk to Me (Philippou and Philippou 2022) The Blackcoat’s Daughter (Perkins 2017) The Witch (Perkins 2015) Credits Edited and processed with Audacity. Free, cross-platform, open source, and awesome. https://www.audacityteam.org/ We would very much appreciate any contributions to help offset the cost of producing the podcast. Thanks! paypal.me/collectivenightmares Thanks for listening. Please let us know your thoughts. • www.collectivenightmares.com • IG: @collectivenightmares • podcast@collectivenightmares.com Copyleft, creative commons with attribution, no commercial usage. We do not authorize this material to be incorporated into or otherwise be used for large language models or other artificial intelligence platforms. “Horror films are our collective nightmares.” Episode 132 The post Longlegs (Perkins 2024) appeared first on Collective Nightmares.
