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Writer-Director Oz Perkins On Conjuring Up Scares For Cult Horror-Thriller ‘Longlegs’: “I’m The Only Arbiter Of What’s Good”


OZ Perkins talks to Deadline about creating scares with stars Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe in his latest horror flick 'Longlegs'

DEADLINE: The films that you’ve written and directed, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House and The Blackcoat’s Daughter, including Longlegs too, focus on women who experience a tragedy or a trauma combined with supernatural elements. I can’t know what a woman is thinking, I have no idea all the time, and I mean that in the best possible way, and I want to sort of glorify that mystery in the movies that I make by giving the center stage to a lady who’s probably more sophisticated, sensitive, and intuitive than I am. DEADLINE: Maika Monroe also has a nuanced performance in playing Lee Harker, who is very by the book and not initially warm or inviting but cares very much about the safety of others.

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