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Horror maestro Guillermo del Toro has nothing but praise for the year’s scariest movie.

“LONGLEGS (2024) A great Oz Perkins film- 100% his vibe.

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His metronome, his meticulous composition and his uncanny sense of evil and impending doom,” he wrote.

It bares the same preoccupations Oz has had from the start and his Cosmic dread.

It is his vibe and signature and I am delighted he is getting more people to know it."

Nicolas Cage as Longlegs in Longlegs/Osgood Perkins and Nicolas Cage standing side-by-side at a Longlegs event

“I can’t look at real things.

I don’t like them.

They don’t sit well with me.

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I don’t want to know,“Perkins told us recently.

“All this stuff couldn’t be more fictionalized and totally made up.

That’s part of the fun of it [for] me.

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It’s like, ‘Oh, that’s how FBI people probably talk.

Oh, that’s how they would probably come into a room.

I don’t know, maybe it’s something like this’.

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It’s part of what keeps it light for me, honestly.

I’m not interested in what these sickos do.

Longlegs is in theaters now.

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