In recent years, audiences have been craving fresh horror stories on the big screen. Many of the most impressive box office successes have been new horror projects, from the Academy Award triumph Sinners to Zach Cregger’s Weapons, which itself earned Oscar success in the form of a historic Best Supporting Actress win for Amy Madigan. Looking to capitalize on the movie’s global success and breakout character, it has since been announced that a Weapons prequel is in the works, set to focus on the life of Madigan’s Aunt Gladys.
But Gladys isn’t the only next installment from one of the biggest recent horror creations; it was confirmed back in April that a brand-new film set in the world of Longlegs is in development, with writer and director Osgood Perkins back in charge. It was also confirmed that Nicolas Cage, despite the ending to his titular character in the movie, will star, with some seeing this as confirmation that the movie will be either a prequel or a spin-off, instead of a direct sequel. Perhaps most intriguing was the news that Paramount has picked up the rights to the movie from NEON.
Less than a month later, the biggest update regarding the new film is finally here, and it might frustrate some fans. It has been confirmed in reports that the next Longlegs movie will debut in theaters on January 14, 2028, almost four years after the first film was released. With the best part of two years to go until a follow-up to one of the decade’s scariest horror films, here’s hoping it will be worth the wait. Cage will serve as a producer on the project alongside Brian Kavanaugh Jones, Perkins, Chris Ferguson, and Dave Caplan.
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
The horror genre has always proven fruitful ground for low-budget projects becoming big box office triumphs. Longlegs capitalized on the genre’s ability to craft visceral fear from very little, with a fresh horror story still living in the nightmares of those who first watched it almost two years ago. Against a reported $10 million budget, Longlegs returned a stunning $125 million worldwide, split between a domestic haul of $74 million and a further $51 million from overseas markets. No wonder another installment is on the way.
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