Maika Monroe got the scare of her life when she saw Nicolas Cage in Longlegs

“When I walked into the room and saw Nicolas Cage as Longlegs, it was a visceral experience that I will never forget.”

When faced with our worst nightmares, our hearts tend to beat faster. Also, when we watch a horror film and fear takes hold of us, shivers run through our body and our heartbeat accelerates. For four years, the “Science of Scare” project, led this year by MoneySuperMarket broadband, has been drawing up a list of the scariest films of the genre based on the heart rate of the viewers. On the top step of the podium, is positioned Sinister. Ari Aster, the leading light of the new wave of horror, takes sixth place with Hereditary. But this ranking risks being shaken up by the next releases. Among others, In a Violent Natureand especially Longlegs – awaited like the Messi and already considered by some fans as the most terrifying horror film of this decade.

To prove them right, the latest trailer posted online on social networks, entitled “Heartbeat”, features the main character, Lee Harker, played by Maika Monroediscovering for the first time the face of Longlegs, the serial killer responsible for the multiple murders. The least we can say is that the actress had the fright of her life…

“The first time Maika Monroe saw Nicolas Cage as Longlegs was in the following scene. What you're going to hear is Maika's heartbeat.”

Usually between 60 and 100 beats per minute, her heart rate was around 170 BPM – a number that was far too high… However, this is not the first time that the actress has been confronted with a horror film. She was already the star from It Follows and more recently of Watcher. Nicolas Cagestill impressed her:

“When I walked into the room and saw Nicolas Cage as Longlegs, it was a visceral experience that I will never forget.”

Made up and inhabited by his character, the actor announces himself to be completely scary in the skin of this serial killer hunted by Maika Monroe. She is far from imagining the darkness of his soul and to what extent his past echoes with the present investigations.

Revisiting Thesilenceofthelambs and leading him onto the slippery slope of occultismLonglegs by Osgood Perkins retains its share of mystery: what does Nicolas Cage look like? What scares the lead actress so much? To find out, you'll have to go to the dark rooms. Longlegs was released in theaters this Wednesday.

Longlegs: shocking images, an unleashed Nicolas Cage, but not many thrills [critique]