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“We suffer more in imagination than in reality,” once said philosopher Seneca.

Other scary flicks could learn a thing or two from their marketing.

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I think the key thing, though, is that they don’t hide them completely.

Curiosity killed the cat, and all that.

It concludes with Cage’s character adding, “I’ll be… We know you are, and it’sterrifying.

Nicolas Cage in Longlegs

They asked me early on, ‘Do we have your permission to kind of go nuts?’

And I said, ‘What else are we doing here?

Do your thing.'”

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“It’s driving people towards a freak show at a circus tent,” the director toldEntertainment Weeklyelsewhere.

“Would be great to go in without a proper idea of how grim he might look.”

Their wide-eyed shock acting as a mirror to our own?

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They’re a twistedblendof imagination and reality, and well, that’s what makes them so perfect.

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Julia Garner in Weapons

A still from a Weapons teaser

Sarah Michelle Gellar as Helen Shivers waving in I Know What You Did Last Summer

Keir Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in Speed

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Gabriel Luna as Tommy in The Last of Us

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Articulate box, cards, board, and tokens on a wooden table

The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.

Jonah Hauer-King as Conrad in Doctor Who: ‘Lucky Day’.