Creepy Cage is impressing the critics, which has resulted in a flawless debut on Rotten Tomatoes. Yes, Nicolas Cage’s upcoming horror film, Longlegs, debuts with a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Cage portrays a cold and calculating serial killer in writer and director Oz Perkins’ upcoming macabre movie. And, at the time of this writing, Longlegs continues to register a perfect 100% on the Tomatometer thanks to some incredibly high praise from the critics. Michael Gingold of Rue Morgue Magazine writes in his review:

It’s like the feeling you have when you’ve just woken up from a really disturbing nightmare, sustained for 101 minutes.

MovieWeb's own Will Sayre says:

Longlegs is literally scarier than anything I've seen in years.

Mary Beth McAndrews of Dread Central gives Longlegs a perfect 5-out-of-5 score and says:

Longlegs is one of the scariest and best films of the year, hands down.

Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting adds:

Longlegs gets under your skin and stays there, immersing you so thoroughly in the repulsive, discomforting nature of evil through terrifying imagery and a tactile atmosphere that it’s unshakable.

For those unfamiliar with Osgood “Oz” Perkins’ pedigree, he is the son of horror icon and Psycho star, Anthony Perkins. In addition to his writing and directing credits, Perkins' acting resume includes appearances in his dad’s iconic sequel, Psycho II, as well as portraying Dorky David in Reese Witherspoon’s Legally Blonde.

Longlegs Is Creeping Out Critics

Oz Perkins declares Nicolas Cage is “unrecognizable” in Longlegs. Sufficient to say, Cage’s performance and the horror film itself are leaving the critics impressed and incredibly creeped out, too. Courtney Howard of Fresh Fiction gives the upcoming macabre movie an “A-” score and even suggests that the Devil himself had a hand in making the film so stupendous. Howard writes in her review:

It’s as if Oz Perkins' cinematic freak-fest was forged in Hell by Satan, who brought it as an artifact into our world as a gift.

Bill Bria of Slash Film is one of those who gave Longlegs a perfect score (10 out of 10). Bria says:

It's the most terrifying horror movie of 2024, a film that gets under your skin and may never get out.

Back on January 5, NEON began an incredible marketing campaign by dropping an eerie teaser for Longlegs that didn’t outright reveal its connection to the Nicolas Cage-led horror film. Rather, viewers had to piece together the clues to even know they were watching something that had any connection to Cage’s upcoming project. EJ Moreno’s Flickering Myth review adds:

The pure horror experience we've been waiting for. It's easily the scariest film of the decade.

Dolores Quintana of the Santa Monica Mirror writes:

Longlegs is a mesmerizing serial killer tale that swallows the viewer whole. The feeling of being inside the head of a serial killer or an intense FBI agent has never been so enrapturing and seductive.

Katie Rife of IGN pointed out some issues with Longlegs, but still gave Perkins' movie a 7-out-of-10 score. Rife writes:

There are moments when Longlegs feels like a movie you’ve seen before, but with an evil filter laid over it: This is both a weakness and a strength, as Perkins’ horror surrealism renders the familiar strange, and the strange familiar.