The most interesting horror movie marketing campaign of the new year thus far has been for a mysterious upcoming movie from distributor NEON, which kicked off last week with an ultra creepy teaser that got the horror community talking. The viral marketing clip ran just 35-seconds long, beginning with a retro-looking family photo of a mother, father and daughter.
A call to 911 played over top of the photo, with the father explaining to the operator that something has happened to his daughter. “That’s not my daughter,” he says at one point during the chilling call, and the clip ends with what looks to be a crime scene photo. There were also strange symbols throughout the video, which many fans immediately got to work on decoding.
Many horror fans believe the teaser was for NEON’s upcoming horror movie Longlegs, but there’s been no official word from NEON since the teaser dropped last week. Other fans are convinced it’s from a totally different horror movie on the company’s 2024 slate: Cuckoo.
Our best guess is that it’s Longlegs, a hotly anticipated serial killer horror movie from director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel). Nicolas Cage stars alongside Maika Monroe, with Monroe playing an FBI agent and Cage playing a serial killer.
In the film, “FBI Agent Lee Harker (Monroe) is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer (Cage). As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.”
This second cryptic teaser runs 37-seconds long, and it features a clip of an FBI agent discovering *something* hidden beneath the floorboards of a house. This lines up with the plot synopsis for Longlegs, which again features Maika Monroe as an FBI agent. The teaser is also filled with quick shots of crime scene photos, showing a bloody knife and various dead bodies.
Like the first teaser, a voice speaks over top of the eerie visuals in this one. “Are you still saying your prayers?” the voice asks. “Our prayers protect us from the Devil.”
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