“Longlegs.” / “Suitable Flesh.”

“Longlegs” (2024, Hulu) thriller horror film written and directed by Osgood Perkins . Story: In 1974 Oregon , a young girl with a Polaroid camera follows a mysterious voice and encounters an erratic man in pale makeup. 20 years later, FBI agent Lee Harker, who exhibits possible clairvoyance , is assigned by her supervisor William Carter to a case involving a series of murder–suicides in Oregon. Pre-watch info: This movie received critical acclaim and grossed $126 million worldwide on a budget of less than $10 million. Sure, horror films command lucrative box-office dough but $116 million gross by an indie is huge. So there! Relatively unknown Maika Monroe is that agent, Lee Harker. She's fine in the scary/confused look but she lacks the steely, insistent defiance that muffled the lost-girl vulnerability of Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling in 1991's “The Silence of the Lambs.” But the showtime b...