2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Oz Perkins’ Longlegs

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A little bit of an oddball project that the folks at NEON would end up grabbing shortly after the film completed production in February of this year, Oz PerkinsLonglegs features the enigmatic Nicolas Cage (surrounded by Maika Monroe, Alicia Witt and Blair Underwood for what is essentially a horror thriller. Son of Anthony Perkins, Oz moonlights as an actor (for a good while now) but this is his fourth feature as a filmmaker.

Gist: Lee Harker, a talented new FBI agent, has been assigned to an unsolved case of a serial killer. As the investigation becomes more complicated and occult evidence is uncovered, Harker realizes a personal link to the ruthless killer and must act quickly to prevent another family murder.

Production Co./Producers: Nicolas Cage, Dan Kagan, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Dave Caplan, Chris Ferguson.

Prediction: Midnight.

U.S. Distributor: NEON.

2023 American Film Festival Wroclaw

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022, he was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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