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Longlegs
Movie

Longlegs

2024 • Unknown

Woke Score
6
out of 10

Plot

FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.

Overall Series Review

Longlegs is a grim, occult horror film centered on FBI Agent Lee Harker's investigation into a serial killer connected to generational trauma. The movie features a female protagonist who is an instinctively gifted new recruit, capable of solving a decades-old case that had baffled her male superiors. The thematic core involves the literal destruction of the traditional suburban nuclear family by a Satanic agent, framing the home and family as inherently corruptible and a source of horror. The violence is often connected to a warped concept of purity and a father's inability to accept his daughter's maturity. Traditional religion is presented as entirely absent or ineffective against the real, potent supernatural evil at the center of the murders.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics4/10

The narrative focuses on occult horror and trauma, not a race-based lecture. The main FBI agent, Harker, is a white female whose primary merit is her supernatural-like intuition or trauma-induced knowledge. Her immediate superior, a Black male agent, is depicted as needing the case's central ciphers and meaning explained to him in detail by the rookie Harker. The casting is colorblind outside of any plot focus.

Oikophobia7/10

The entire plot is dedicated to the annihilation of the traditional suburban nuclear family. The central antagonist, a Satanic agent, corrupts and exploits the institution of the family unit, using the pater familias to murder his wife and daughter. The violence is fueled by a religion-driven rejection of the maturing daughter as 'tainted,' showing the home and familial structure as fundamentally corruptible and a hell of living.

Feminism9/10

Agent Harker is a new recruit with a psychic 'gift' who instantly makes progress on a decades-old FBI cold case that baffled veterans. Her male boss is positioned as an exposition recipient who requires the case's meaning explained to him twice. The movie frames fathers as threatened by and unable to cope with their pre-pubescent daughters maturing, leading to the impulse for their murder. Motherhood is depicted only as a dark burden, a tool for evil, or an act of selfish sacrifice in the service of the devil's agent.

LGBTQ+2/10

The narrative is focused on occult evil and generational trauma within the nuclear family. The film does not center or promote alternative sexualities or gender ideology. Some critics and audience members perceived the characterization of the androgynous serial killer as a negative trope, specifically accusing the film of 'transphobia,' which is the opposite of a pro-LGBTQ+ narrative.

Anti-Theism9/10

The central evil is a self-proclaimed agent of the actual devil, a 'Hail Satan!'-shouting serial killer who operates within a context of occult power. The plot connects the violence to warped, religion-driven concepts of purity and original sin, implicitly critiquing fundamental Christian thought. The film operates in a 'godless context' where supernatural evil is real, yet traditional religion is entirely ineffective, with no one suggesting invoking the Almighty, and a priest is mentioned only as a victim.