Festival Predictions

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Oz Perkins’ Longlegs

Published on November 13, 2023

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 Perkins‘ Longlegs 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.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member 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 served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).