Longlegs director is so creeped out by true crime content, he purposefully avoided it while making the serial killer horror
Exclusive: Osgood Perkins reveals why he's "not interested in what these sickos do"
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Longlegsis entirely fictitious but with its early ’90s setting, Satanic panic undertones, and coded letter-writing serial killer antagonist, it can’t help but give off serious true crime vibes. With that, you might assume writer-director Osgood Perkins looked into some real-life cases for inspiration. The Zodiac’s, perhaps? Turns out, though, that couldn’t be further from reality…
“I can’t look at real things. I don’t like them. They don’t sit well with me. I don’t want to know,” the filmmaker admits toGamesRadar+and theInside Total Film podcast. “All this stuff couldn’t be more fictionalized and totally made up. That’s part of the fun of it [for] me. It’s like, ‘Oh, that’s how FBI people probably talk. Oh, that’s how they would probably come into a room. I …
