Horror cinema is having another good year. The most recent example is Longlegsthe studio's horror thriller NEON and the screenwriter and director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter).
After five weeks of showing in cinemas, the film has a tnational quilla (USA, Canada) of $72 million dollars, surpassing the $100 million at the global box office, and it's already counting other records to his list:
- The highest grossing independent film of the year 2024.
- The Highest-grossing independent R-rated horror film of 2024.
- It is the Second highest-grossing horror film of 2024 at the global box officebehind A Quiet Place: Day One ($253 million), leaving behind Connecting ($97 mdd).
He budget of Longlegs It is reported What happened to $10 million dollars, approximately.
In theaters in Mexico and the rest of Latin America it will be released on August 29 with the title Longlegs: Soul Collector.
OTHER PREVIOUS RECORDS ACHIEVED:
- It is officially, The highest-grossing independent horror film in the last ten years at the US box officesurpassing other hits of the genre such as Talk to Me, Insidious: Chapter 3y Hereditary.
- It is the Highest-grossing R-rated horror movie of 2024.
- It is the highest grossing film in NEON history.
Nice Monroe y Nicolas Cage star in the horror thriller, she as FBI agent Lee Harker, who is on the trail of the serial killer nicknamed Longlegs, played by Cage.
The feature film is described as “in the vein of classic Hollywood psychological thrillers,” and as “the best horror film about serial killers since The silence of the innocents”.
SYNOPSIS:
“FBI Agent Lee Harker (Monroe) is assigned to a serial killer case that takes unexpected turns, revealing evidence of the occult. Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer and must stop him before he strikes again.”
Alicia Witt (Urban Legend, I Care a Lot), Blair Underwood (Origin, American Crime Story), Vanessa Walsh (Murdaugh Murders: The Movie) y Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) complete the cast.
The producers are Cage with his production company Saturn Films, Dan Kagan, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Dave Caplan, and Chris Ferguson.
NEON is having a great year with horror film releases, such as Longlegs, Cuckooe Immaculate. In February 2025 it will premiere The Monkeyan adaptation of the short story by Stephen King, in which he again collaborated with Osgood Perkins, and later Keeperalso from Perkins. The studio is already working on the sequel They Followwith Monroe returning to reprise the lead role from the acclaimed It Follows by David Robert Mitchell.
Source: https://cine3.com/longlegs-supera-100-m-taquilla-mundial/
