Longlegs (2023) – Osgood Perkins.

Enjoyably daft, meticulously predictable, and about as scary as an onion, but each time Cage turns up, oh my! What bountiful larks!!!! Hail Fucking Satan!!! The exquisite Alicia Witt remains absolutely lovely, and, by god, her maternally mental mommy is sexier than all hell!! With only the rarest exception, a great many contemporary horror/genre films are frustratingly easy to read, the historical references, and shameless recycling is so stark, one is only ever truly surprised by the film-makers/writers unabashed refusal to avoid cliche. Lacking intrigue, or genuine menace, Longlegs technical merits are very high, the impressively stylised photography being really rather evocative, but, sadly, I was mostly nonplussed by the unstintingly formulaic narrative.