Longlegs hasn’t but hit theaters—July 12 is the big day—however the creatively creepy marketing alone is sufficient to give a person nightmares. The most recent trick in Neon’s massive e-book of scare techniques is to launch audio charting Maika Monroe’s precise heartbeat from the primary time she noticed Nicolas Cage in character because the titular serial killer.
Certain, it’s a giant second, as Monroe’s FBI agent character is lastly capable of confront her long-sought quarry, and possibly a few of the palpitations are because of the stress the actor was feeling about participating in such a tense, pivotal scene reverse an Oscar winner. However you additionally must assume that a few of it was the truth that he’s simply so agonizingly off-putting. Take a look at the video right here, which helpfully pastes a black field over Cage’s face to keep away from spoilers.
The primary time Maika Monroe noticed Nicolas Cage as Longlegs, her coronary heart fee hit 170 bpm.
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As writer-director Osgood Perkins defined in an interview with io9, he didn’t even have any enter into Longlegs‘ advertising marketing campaign, although he’s been very happy with the way in which it captures the eerie spirit of his movie. He additionally talked about how Monroe and Cage really solely share one scene collectively—the scene you see excerpted above—in a sequence that maximizes the distinction not simply between their characters, but additionally their appearing types. She’s extra reserved and inside; he’s properly, he’s Nic Cage. “I used to be acutely aware of the truth that I had two very counterweight, counterbalancing energies,” Perkins stated. “Fortunately, I used to be in a position narratively to maintain them aside … then after they do join, it’s a really charged second. And so their reverse expenses work even higher.”
So charged, apparently, that Monroe had a really bodily response to Cage’s look. And if a skilled performer bought such a shock from seeing him, think about how film audiences are going to really feel! You may push the bounds of your individual circulatory system, and presumably your capability to not pee your pants in terror, when Longlegs arrives this Friday, July 12.
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