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

A distractingly outsized performance is one of many unsuccessful elements in Osgood Perkins’ stylish yet progressively silly horror

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

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

Not only is "Longlegs" one of the most technically assured horror films of the year, it’s also the most disquieting, writes our reviewer.

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

There is no evidence in the loopy 'Longlegs' that writer-director Oz Perkins inherited any of his father's understated cinematic abhorrence.

Starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage at his sinister best, Neon’s serial killer thriller ‘Longlegs’ weaves a hypnotic spell.

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

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

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

“Longlegs,” a gripping horror film about a mysterious Oregon serial killer on the loose, racks up many spooky superlatives. Chief among them? The freakish title character easily ranks among Nicolas Cage’s strangest roles ever. Really, the entire addictive film, written and directed by Oz Perkins, is one of the best horror movies of the past several years.

Horror can be about more than gore, and jump scares when in the hands of the right person. It can use the deepest recesses of your brain against you with your own imagination, filling in the holes of what you do not see onscreen with your own dark version of events. That is what horror

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

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

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

Longlegs Image: Neon Horror is about upsetting our understanding of the world, which is why so many of the most famous horror movies of all time root themselves...

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

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 Silence of the Lambs that some viewers may wonder if it’s some kind of supernaturally-skewed gloss. It’s not just the green female FBI agent with the traumatic past, the major clue via hidden Polaroids, the tense conversation with the terrifying monster who might be able to help crack the case, the helpful but unsettling meet-up with the research nerd, the nightmare basement lair with the thumpy music, etc. etc. It’s also the feel of the thing: the cloud-dimmed middle-American dread, the sadness of old houses and abandoned souls, the threat of violence just outside the door. And all that similarity-bordering-on-sameness might have been okay if the story this time was a little better told, if the murderous mechanics were a little less arbitrary. As it is, the supernatural stuff is strangely tethered to some highly specific, totally natural, and weirdly unlikely conditions that feel manufactured for the sake of the Big Reveal. And even so, all might have been forgiven but for the so-flat-it’s-funny final confrontation. That said, the big hook here is an almost unrecognizable Nicolas Cage as a fellow who worships Satan but does not seem to have gotten anything for his trouble except for an unpleasant and unprofitable skill set. He’s wonderfully creepy, but that’s about it. At least Buffalo Bill had a motive beyond “Hail, Satan!”

Nicolas Cage goes big in this nerve-racking and dour excursion into diabolical terror

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

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

It’s Silence of the Lambs meets The Dead Zone.

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

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

The setup is pure Silence of the Lambs, but Osgood Perkins’s movie is very much its own thing, and one of the best horror films in years

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

A little Nicolas Cage goes a long way in Osgood Perkins' deeply disconcerting Longlegs.

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

This is a sturdily constructed horror film with a foundation sneakily built on shifting sands.

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

As FBI agents mention the final book of the Bible, one calls it “Revelations.” Then “semi-psychic” Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) corrects them. “Revelation. Singular,” she says, eyes glued to the ground as she pivots past, but not toward, the camera. It’s the mid-1990s and unsolved Satanic killings have resumed in the Pacific Northwest. Harker has

Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage and Blair Underwood in Osgood Perkins' 'Longlegs,' a tense FBI procedural steeped in occult horror and nightmarish visions.

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

Osgood Perkins puts a Satanic spin on The Silence of the Lambs in Longlegs, an unnerving, stylishly crafted serial-killer thriller with a bizarre supernatural twist.

Longlegs Review - Is the latest horror movie from Oz Perkins, starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, worth seeking out?

Our Longlegs review looks at the excellent new horror movie starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage and directed by Osgood Perkins.