10 Best Performances From 2024 Horror Movies
3. Nicolas Cage - Longlegs
Nicolas Cage's streak of fascinating genre film roles continues with his utterly mesmerising performance in Osgood Perkins' horror-thriller Longlegs, where he portrays the titular serial killer.
Though Cage's role in the film is smaller than many expected, he makes every single second count. Aided by a ton of facial prosthetics, Cage absolutely disappears into the antagonist role, giving a terrifyingly unhinged, unpredictable performance quite like nothing else he's ever given us before. It feels like a part tailor-made for Cage's off-the-wall instincts as a performer - at times unexpectedly hilarious and always incredibly unsettling.
For anyone who felt that Nic Cage was too much of a meme today to be genuinely terrifying, Longlegs offered up persuasive evidence to the contrary, the actor immersing himself fully in the role, enough that co-star Maika Monroe reported being legitimately scared the first time she saw him in makeup on set.