Longlegs(2024)

In the 1990’s, FBI Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is put on a case involving a decades-old serial killer called “Longlegs”. His modus operandi is having the fathers of each victimized family carry out the murders before committing suicide, and Lee suggests to her boss, Agent Carter (Blair Underwood), that Longlegs has an accomplice.

Lee forgot that she encountered Longlegs as a child with her mother Ruth (Alicia Witt). She finds a snapshot among her old belongings, which identifies Longlegs and is used to help locate and capture him. Longlegs, whose real name is Dale Ferdinand Cobble, only tells Lee to ask her mother about his accomplices before he smashes his head repeatedly until he dies.

Ruth was Longlegs’ accomplice all along, as she promised to carry out his deeds so that he may spare her and Lee. Longlegs would create lifelike dolls resembling the daughters of the families, including one of Lee, and inside would be metal balls that serve as the dolls’ “brains” which carried the essence of satanic magic that would influence the fathers to commit the murders. Lee realizes that the next target is Carter’s daughter Ruby, since it is her birthday. Lee rushes to Carter’s house, but Ruth has already arrived with a Ruby doll, and the whole family is under a trance. Carter kills his wife, and Lee kills him before shooting Ruth in the head. She runs out of bullets before she can destroy the doll, but she gets Ruby out safely.