A cryptic trailer offering more questions than answers has been uploaded to YouTube by indie distributor NEON.
With the title "You've got the teeth of the hydra upon you", the one-minute 24-second look at their new film Longlegs sees Maika Monroe as FBI Agent Lee Harker, who has been assigned to an unsolved serial killer case.
The ominous opening image of a young girl watching a car from a window is followed by imagery that echoes the film's dark themes.
With compositions of the occult coursing through, the mysterious vignettes take us to multiple locations, mixing up aspect ratios and never painting the full picture of what to expect.
Fans are thrilled by the first teaser.
Writer Kyle Buchanan also shared the trailer with a section of an interview he did with Nicolas Cage where the two spoke about Longlegs.
Cage said, "I play, I almost call him like a possessed Gepetto".
If the trailer didn't leave you with enough questions, Cage's description of his character is set to have you scratching your head until the film hits theaters.
"He makes these dolls, and the dolls infiltrate families and get the families to do terrible things. It's a horror film. And he was, I think, telling a story, in some ways, about his mother, and I played Longlegs as a very androgynous character, and I'm channeling my mom." Cage said.
So, if you weren't already completely lost about what Longlegs would hold, Cage's curious answer certainly won't remedy that.
Longlegs will creep into theaters on July 12, 2024.
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