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Podcast: ‘Longlegs’ Gets Uncertified

Join Matt Donato and Matthew Monagle for a heated conversation on the career of Osgood Perkins and why 'Longlegs' just works.

Maika Monroe Longlegs

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From day one, the co-creators of Certified Forgotten have argued about the movies of Oz Perkins. So it was probably destiny that Matt Donato and Matthew Monagle should sit down to discuss Longlegs, the director's new procedural horror that delighted everyone at the site, regardless of their opinions on The Blackcoat's Daughter.

Whether you call it precognition or just intuition, agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) has a gift. So when the FBI runs out of leads for a series of murders — murders only linked by coded letters signed by someone named ‘Longlegs' — they take a risk on the junior agent. But as Harker inches closer to the true identity of Longlegs (Nicolas Cage), she threatens to reveal a personal connection that could put everything she worked for at risk. Directed by Osgood Perkins, Longlegs is David Fincher by way of the devil — and the unquestioned horror movie of the summer.

In this short excerpt from the episode, Matt Monagle explains what it is that makes Oz Perkins his all-time favorite filmmaker:

There are directors where every movie that they've made I really, really like. Oz Perkins is not a director where every single movie he's made, I've been like, "This is great. This is in my Top 10 list of the year." But when he's on – when he and I are on the same wavelength – I am vibing with his stuff harder than any other filmmaker working in the genre.

The Longlegs episode of the Certified Forgotten podcast is now available to stream on SpotifyApple PodcastsYouTube Music, or the podcast platform of your choice.

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