"The scariest movie of the summer"

Longlegs and metrics of the macabre

Supposedly, no one wants to watch old movies anymore. Their aesthetic is too dated, stagey, distancing. They don't flatter a received understanding of “realism”— which is, of course, itself as fake as studio lighting and Vaseline on the lens. Streaming services have long favored con tent from the last twenty-thirty years over their vast back catalogues,…