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With that, you might assume writer-director Osgood Perkins looked into some real-life cases for inspiration.
The Zodiac’s, perhaps?
I don’t like them.
They don’t sit well with me.
I don’t want to know," the filmmaker admits toGamesRadar+and theInside Total Film podcast.
“All this stuff couldn’t be more fictionalized and totally made up.
That’s part of the fun of it [for] me.
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 likethis’.
It’s part of what keeps it light for me, honestly.
I’m not interested in what these sickos do.
Will she be able to find, and stop them, before they strike again?
“The world is ugly enough as it is, you know?
I just tried to make something that I thought was kind of pretty.”
Longlegs creeps into cinemas on July 12.
