With all the expertly curated hype leading up to the release of writer/director Osgood Perkins' horror film Longlegs, it seems almost inevitable that the film itself would turn out to be a disappointment. While Perkins doesn't sustain the exact same sense of disorienting terror evoked by the early clips and trailers for a full 100 minutes, he does come about as close as could be reasonably expected. Longlegs is consistently unsettling and occasionally viscerally upsetting, although it's also often balanced just at the edge between horrifying and laughable.