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Longlegs (2024)

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.4
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Overview

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.


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Bias Dimensions

Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Negative
Trans: Negative
Christianity: Positive

Overview

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.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

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Apple TV logoApple TV
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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Progressive

Primary

The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology by critiquing systemic issues such as late 20th-century capitalism, political complicity, and the deflection of responsibility for violence onto marginalized groups, aligning with a clearly left perspective.

The movie incorporates an intentionally non-traditional, gender-ambiguous antagonist, marking a clear departure from conventional character representation. Its narrative explores themes of domestic and patriarchal violence, though the framing of the antagonist has led to varied interpretations regarding its commentary on identity and societal issues.

Secondary

Longlegs features a queer-coded, androgynous antagonist, drawing criticism for employing horror tropes that link queer identity with monstrosity. While the director denies anti-trans intent, the film's portrayal has sparked debate and accusations of transphobia within the LGBTQ+ community, resulting in a net problematic impact.

Longlegs portrays its queer-coded, transfeminine antagonist as a violent, satan-worshipping serial killer. This depiction intertwines gender nonconformity with menace and villainy, aligning with horror tropes that critics argue risk perpetuating harmful stereotypes about trans and queer individuals by associating identity with deviance and violence, despite the director's stated intent.

The film implicitly affirms a Christian-aligned framework of good versus evil, sin, and the reality of supernatural evil and the devil's influence, treating these concepts as real and significant forces within its narrative.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The film features original characters, including the villain Longlegs, whose gender ambiguity is central to their new portrayal. There is no indication that any character was previously established with a different gender in source material, prior installments, or real-world history. Therefore, no gender swap occurs.

The provided information for "Longlegs" indicates it is a 2024 film with no explicit details suggesting it is an adaptation or features characters with pre-established racial identities that have been altered. Therefore, no race swaps are identified.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.4

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
6.6
The Movie Database logo
6.6

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
8.6
Metacritic logo
7.7

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