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Osgood Perkins on "Longlegs": “[Neon] really responded strongly to the movie, the raw materials of the movie really excited them, the way it looks, the way it feels, the way it sounds. They asked me early on, ‘Do we have your permission to kind of go nuts?’ And I said, ‘What else are we doing here?"

'Longlegs' director Osgood Perkins tells IndieWire how the film's ingenious marketing campaign was all the studio's invention.

“It Follows” and “Watcher” scream queen Maika Monroe stars as Lee Harker, an emotional shell of an FBI agent with a disturbingly personal connection to a murderer who, through cryptic dispatches, goes by Longlegs. (Perkins already has two more horror titles set up at Neon, including the Stephen King adaptation “The Monkey,” starring Theo James and Tatiana Maslany and out February 21 next year.) All have been raves thus far, while not denying the movie’s general fucked-up energy and serious scares — the sort of picture that elicits the feeling of looking at a crime scene photo, something we aren’t meant to see but nevertheless can’t pull ourselves away from.

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