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this isnt a movie about daddy spiders

Couple things: 1) Lee does not have psychic abilities. The doll Longlegs gives her has Satan guiding her and telling her where to look (The line "It's like there's someone behind me, tapping me on the shoulder, telling me where to look" and there is a shot of the devil standing behind her).

2) There's a whole scene where the boss' daughter talks about how her birthday is coming up. You can see the boss dodging the subject throughout the film, wanting to stay in denial and keep his idea of control. He's depicted as being a sort of "above it all" type and the Devil, of course, loves to punish those people who aren't scared of him.

The sound design when Longlegs was singing was almost painful. It would start out in the normal range but then you would hear a low ringing that progressively grew before the scene transitioned. It was almost like it was his way of psyching himself up before he would kill or hurt someone.

There’s no way this woman just went into the woods when she saw him outside her window at night like, bffr I’m flabbergasted

I always assumed the reason the Lee made such horrible decisions was because of the influence of her doll.  And once her mother had finally destroyed the dolls head it finished a ritual that put her fully under the control of the devil.

When someone is talking to my daughter alone and then sings a song about letting him in, my common-sense tingles and it’s time for frontier justice

6:30 I feel like people always assume coded messages are coded from English, imagine how many unsolved mysteries in real life where they’ve just been trying to uncover in the wrong language

I find it funny that I don’t like horror movies, but I love listening to YouTube videos about said movies, especially from channels like CZsworld, Dead Meat, and especially this one!
My sister who is actually a horror fan saw this and said it even made her scared

Why is it that the lead detective, who’s tracking a serial killer that targets families on the EXACT DATE of his OWN DAUGHTER'S UPCOMING BIRTHDAY, never once freaks out or realizes, "Hey, maybe we're in serious danger here"? And how does his entire team of seasoned detectives completely miss this glaring red flag and fail to take any precautions?

It's just one of the many reasons the second half of the movie fell flat compared to the first.

"FBI Agent"


Alright, you've already beaten him.

"Psychic Powers"

Ok now HE needs help.

Lee was basically just a pawn the whole movie without knowing it. It's one of those cases where there is really nothing that could of been done. The only one really with any control might of been her boss, but how the story went it felt like he was in some part being influenced himself already being in denial playing right into the trap. A case where it's pretty much 'they were screwed' from the start.

I always thought that Lee didn’t put the clues together sooner because of the mind control. She was being given the clues that long legs wanted her to have and do as he wanted her to have them and nothing more.

Gotta love it. “No one can crack the code.” —> proceeds to show the code is one of the easiest codes that exists to break. Straight substitution cyphers are really, really easy to figure out and most people tend to be able to do them if given enough time- at least if it is written in a language they speak and are fluent in. 11:28 is a good example of why its easy with the word “the” being repeated identically even in such a small sample. Then there are a decent chunk of stuff you can follow like that (such as a single letter word being practically guarenteed to either be an A or an I, s and e being some of the most commonly used letters in english etc. Keep plugging things in and boom, cypher cracked.

"Let me in! It'll be niiiiccce!" Now that's gonna be stuck in my head all month

“And he existed, and that was his biggest mistake” 😂😂 since he uses that phrase so much

The main thing he missed is that she’s under the control of her devil until the mom frees her…

Meaning Lee can’t read the future or bad at her job it’s the devil in control most the movie as far as Lee goes

You made this movie already sound more interesting than it actually was 😭 I feel like I watched a different movie

I’ve watched these videos like over 10 times and i’de still die first

I came out of the theatre just being mad that no one had long legs.