Longlegs hasn’t but hit theaters—July 12 is the massive day—however the creatively creepy advertising and marketing alone is sufficient to give an individual nightmares. The newest trick in Neon’s large guide of scare ways is to launch audio charting Maika Monroe’s precise heartbeat from the primary time she noticed Nicolas Cage in character because the titular serial killer.
Certain, it’s an enormous second, as Monroe’s FBI agent character is lastly in a position to confront her long-sought quarry, and doubtless among the palpitations are as a result of stress the actor was feeling about participating in such a tense, pivotal scene reverse an Oscar winner. However you additionally should assume that a few of it was the truth that he’s simply so agonizingly off-putting. Take a look at the video right here, which helpfully pastes a black field over Cage’s face to keep away from spoilers.
The primary time Maika Monroe noticed Nicolas Cage as Longlegs, her coronary heart fee hit 170 bpm.
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As writer-director Osgood Perkins defined in an interview with io9, he didn’t even have any enter into Longlegs‘ advertising and marketing marketing campaign, although he’s been very happy with the best way it captures the eerie spirit of his movie. He additionally talked about how Monroe and Cage really solely share one scene collectively—the scene you see excerpted above—in a sequence that maximizes the distinction not simply between their characters, but in addition their performing kinds. She’s extra reserved and inside; he’s properly, he’s Nic Cage. “I used to be acutely aware of the truth that I had two very counterweight, counterbalancing energies,” Perkins stated. “Fortunately, I used to be ready narratively to maintain them aside … then after they do join, it’s a really charged second. And so their reverse costs work even higher.”
So charged, apparently, that Monroe had a really bodily response to Cage’s look. And if a skilled performer acquired such a shock from seeing him, think about how film audiences are going to really feel! You’ll be able to push the boundaries of your individual circulatory system, and presumably your capacity to not pee your pants in terror, when Longlegs arrives this Friday, July 12.
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