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How a budget horror bagged $22,000,000 at the box office by hiding its A-list star

The film has been dubbed 'rancid' and so petrifying, it's made people cry.

And just as the Oscar-winner was only briefly teased in the film’s trailer, and has largely been kept away from the press for much of its publicity tour, so too were his fellow actors shielded from Cage’s final look – which sees him pale, plumped and malformed via plastic surgeries, with stringy white hair (and a hint of a glam rock vibe). I mean, it was so scary that you need a new word to describe what he looks like!’ Cage’s co-star Alicia Witt confessed to Metro.co.uk ahead of Longlegs’ release, which has been likened to that of fellow independent horror smash hit The Blair Witch Project 25 years ago. Witt recalled her first reaction to finally seeing Cage’s androgynous look, which drew inspiration from Gary Oldman ’s Mason Verger in Hannibal and silent movie star Lon Chaney’s work on 1925’s The Phantom of the Opera.

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