Longlegs, a horror-thriller directed by Osgood Perkins and starring Maika Monroe, has become one of the most popular horror films of this summer. The storyline takes place in a town where FBI agent Lee Harker is in charge of solving unsolved murders that are connected to a mysterious figure, Longlegs. Nicolas Cage plays the titular character and is accompanied by a cast including Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota Daulby, and Kiernan Shipka.
The story concludes by revealing that Longlegs’ accomplice is Lee’s mother, Ruth. During a visit, Ruth unexpectedly turns and shoots Agent Browning, Lee’s colleague, with a shotgun. Lee later learns that Longlegs and Ruth had struck a deal where Lee could be saved in return for Ruth doing the Devil’s bidding. Longlegs created dolls infused with satanic magic, which Ruth had disguised as gifts from the church and delivered to families around town. Ruth then ensured that the Devil could manipulate the father of each family to kill the others before killing themselves.
Lee had her own doll created by Longlegs since childhood, which is why she had an unexplainable intuition when it comes to solving cases. Lee finally realizes that the Devil distorted her reality through the doll. In the end, Ruth delivers a doll replica version of Ruby to a party, and Lee arrives too late. Ruby’s family is already possessed, and Ruth tries to kill her daughter, but Lee saves her by shooting her own mother.
In an interview with Den Of Geek, director Osgood Perkins revealed that the ending represents what the Devil has been hoping for all along. He stated that the storyline is all about getting this poor girl to a place where she shoots her mom in the head, and that’s kind of the flourish that the Devil has been waiting for. The film concludes with Lee trying to shoot the doll without success, and both she and the young girl remain frozen
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