Critic Peter Travers reviews "Longlegs," directed by Osgood Perkins, starring Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Alicia Witt, Blair Underwood and Kiernan Shipka.

The masterfully unsettling Longlegs creeps through a rotten world

The concept of evil gets explored often in horror in various ways, but very few films manage to immerse viewers in that evil so wholly that it starts to feel...

Maika Monroe stars as a newbie FBI agent investigating a murder spree associated with Nicolas Cage’s titular monster.

The scariest movie of the year also happens to be the dumbest.

Osgood Perkins’ perfectly realized horror film is like a “Silence of the Lambs” that cries out for an exorcist.

You haven't seen Nicolas Cage like this before, and you won't want to ever again.

Believe the hype.

The new horror movie Longlegs, starring Nicolas Cage as a serial killer, is arrestingly stylish, but lacks the deeper terror of its influences.

Believe the hype, because Longlegs is one of the scariest and best films of the year, hands down. Read our review on Dread Central.

Nicolas Cage is a disturbing serial killer, hunted by Maika Monroe. Read Empire's review.

'Longlegs' director Osgood Perkins transforms simple components and wacky Nicolas Cage antics into a quietly unnerving film with a deeply unsettling tone.

Here's our verdict on the new horror

Writer-director Osgood Perkins spins a tense FBI procedural steeped in occult horror and nightmarish visions, also starring Blair Underwood and Alicia Witt.

Nicolas Cage stars as a Satanic serial killer in a movie that is nasty, precise and as subtle as a magic trick

A Satanic Nicolas Cage will haunt your nightmares in Oz Perkins' breathlessly atmospheric new horror film.

Nicolas Cage is the eponymous killer in this 1990s-set chiller with echoes of Silence of the Lambs

Osgood Perkins's Longlegs is one of the most atmospheric and unsettling horror films in recent memory.

...establishes a strong enough sense of mood and atmosphere to absorb a DEFCON-2 level Nicolas Cage performance.

Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood and a nightmarish Nicolas Cage do expert work in writer-director Osgood Perkins’ chilly reinvention of the serial-killer movie.

While it's gotten plenty of hype, Osgood Perkins' serial killer film "Longlegs" disappoints with a flat protagonist and some predictable beats.

A rookie FBI agent with psychic abilities hunts down a ruthless serial killer in Osgood Perkins' thoroughly unnerving, fantastically odd horror.

Maika Monroe also shines in a high-end horror film that is so much more than the sum of its iconic influences

Nicolas Cage plays a satanic murderer, and Maika Monroe is the clairvoyant FBI agent on his trail, in this tense and frightening horror movie.

The freakish title character easily ranks among Nicolas Cage’s strangest roles ever. 

Nicolas Cage plays the cheery evil entity behind multiple murders in this weakly plotted, strongly styled chiller.

The film’s ponderous third act, in which everything comes together in a tsunami of delirium, is nothing less than moronic.

Nicolas Cage as a serial killer isn’t that terrifying, but it is a blast

Longlegs is designed to rattle you, unsettle you, and make you think about it hours or even days later.

The comparisons with “Silence of the Lambs” litter the reviewing landscape of the wintry Oregon-set thriller “Longlegs.” It’s a horror movie with h...

"Creepy" does not begin to describe director Osgood Perkins' take on an FBI agent tracking a mass murderer — or Cage's WTF performance.

Oz Perkins’ adventure in toxic family dynamics — toxic in a way that results in copious quantities of spilled blood — hits so many of the beats from Si...

It begins with a point of view shot from a car driving up to a remote country homestead. The frame is tight, perhaps even square, giving the image the appear...

FBI agent Maika Monroe and serial killer Nicolas Cage face off in Osgood Perkins' horror of human depravity

The terrifying Longlegs, starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, is the best horror movie of the year. Here's our review.

Director Osgood Perkins, Anthony’s son, mixes familiar scary elements in Longlegs, but adds something extra.

The freaky new film, centered on a movie monster for the ages, is impressively eerie stuff.

The serial-killer thriller will terrify you in so many unexpected ways. Plus, it’s a brilliant showcase for Cage as a zealous maniac.

As FBI agents mention the final book of the Bible, one calls it “Revelations.” Then “semi-psychic” Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) corrects them. “Revela...

Don’t pay attention to its razor-sharp marketing efforts; Longlegs is an imaginatively conceived, impressively scaled, and surprisingly funny ride

"Longlegs" is a horror film that skips the jump scares and adds a healthy dose of creepiness. Believe it or not, it's a horror film that is actually scary.

The star gives this film about the moon landing its buzz. Shame about Channing Tatum as a jock in a lab coat

"Longlegs" review: Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage clash in this chilling, pulp nightmare from filmmaker Osgood Perkins.

The buzziest horror movie of the summer is artfully filmed but otherwise disappointing.

Osgood Perkins' horror movie 'Longlegs' disturbs more over time than it does in the moment, getting scary once its boogeyman embeds in your head.

This tense, odd thriller mines the horror of ordinary people compelled to do terrible things — an unnerving reflection of modern anxieties.

Can Maika Monroe survive the sight of an unleashed Nicolas Cage?