What Happened At the End of Longlegs?

The ending of Longlegs ties together a truly evil story. Throughout the film, FBI Agent Lee Harker is shown making awkward contact with her mother, Ruth, while trying to track down Longlegs. Their conversations are brief and ominous, and the relationship is obviously strained. As Lee makes impressive strides in what was originally an unsolvable case for the FBI, viewers begin to understand that the titular Longlegs (played monstrously by Nicolas Cage) is letting Lee make her discoveries, such as when he leaves a cipher translator in her house in a truly unsettling sequence. The film sets up an interesting relationship between Lee and the killer, as the ominous opening of the film hints at a deeper connection than Lee initially realizes.

It’s no surprise that Perkins dedicated this film to “moms who lie.” It is revealed during the ending of Longlegs that although Longlegs is using what might be a form of satanic magic to carry out his murders without being at the scene of a crime, it was Lee’s mother who acted as a disciple of his work. Dressed as a nun, Ruth would place the satanic dolls created by Longlegs in people’s homes under the guise of mainstream Religious charity. The automatic trust these families showed in what they thought was someone after their own faith leaving them a gift would be their downfall. The dolls would, in some ambiguous way or another, influence the father of the family to brutally murder his own children and wife before eventually ending his own.

Ruth worked with Longlegs to supposedly spare her daughter’s life, as the killer originally had the young Lee in his sights. Unfortunately, this past connection was seemingly wiped from the agent’s mind until her investigation. Eventually, Cage’s Longlegs is captured and comes face to face with Lee. It’s in this interrogation scene that most of what was hidden before comes to light: Ruth made a literal deal with the devil to ensure that she and her daughter were not the next victims. She lied to Lee repeatedly about knowing Longlegs before. Then, in a petrifying monologue performed by Cage, it’s revealed that Lee is expected to take on the mantle of Longlegs.

Longlegs kills himself right then and there in front of Lee, all but confirming his belief that he is done and the mantle is now her’s. Lee proceeds to attempt to bring her mother in for questioning, only for Ruth, once again in nun attire, to kill an FBI agent as well as shoot the head of the doll that resembles a young Lee. The dolls were revealed earlier in the film to be carrying a seemingly empty black ball inside their heads, transmitting some sort of wavelengths that influence violence.

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.In the final sequence of the film, Lee attempts to stop her mother from delivering a doll to her boss’ house as they are celebrating their daughter’s birthday. After this terrible discovery, she is even shown waking up in Longleg’s hiding spot, which turned out to be in the basement of her childhood home this entire time. Unfortunately, Lee is too late, as Detective Carter butchers his own wife and is killed by Lee before he can hurt his daughter. Ruth attempts to kill the daughter as well, forcing Lee to shoot her in self-defense. In the final scene, Lee stares down the doll version of Carter’s daughter and attempts to shoot it, only to have seemingly run out of bullets.

Ending with a “hail satan” from Cage’s Longlegs before the credits roll, Harker’s fate is left ambiguous. Not only that but the methods of the murders and Lee’s own supposed “psychic” abilities are left unanswered. Director Perkins is less interested in confirming the exact nature of evil than he is in showing how it can spawn from the most noble of intentions. While Ruth may have started her evil and sickening partnership with Longlegs out of the wish to protect her daughter, the fact that she goes out of her way to try and kill again even after Longlegs is dead speaks to how wicked she has become herself.

In the end, it may very well be that Lee is unable to shoot the doll at the end because she is now trapped in some satanic ritual. Or, she simply ran out of bullets, and the cycle of evil begetting evil stops with the death of her mother. Either way, Longlegs is an exercise that demonstrates our capacity for darkness and cruelty and the nature of evil as something that we all have the potential for. It is, without a doubt, one of the darkest films of the year.

And that’s the ending of Longlegs, explained.

When Does One Piece Chapter 1119 Come Out?

One Piece Chapter 1119 is currently scheduled for release on Sunday, June 30, 2024. The chapter will simultaneously be released on the Viz Media and Shonen Jump websites/apps. The One Piece manga is currently deep into the first arc of what creator Eiichiro Oda called “the final saga” of the series. If you’ve read the arc up to this point, this statement wouldn’t surprise you at all. Right from the beginning of Egghead, Oda has dropped bombshell knowledge about the secret history known as the void century, a concept introduced way back during the Water Seven arc.

The Egghead arc has teased that Vegapunk has obtained the knowledge that led to the destruction of the island of Ohara, and this arc feels like a narrative continuation of the story that first started so many years ago. All that remains to be seen is if the Straw Hats will manage to escape Egghead as they originally intended, and if they do, which island their next destination will be in their search for the final Road Ponegliff that will lead to the One Piece. A lot of this hinges on the events that unfold in the next few chapters, so expect every weekly release from this point on to be important as the end of this arc draws near.

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Here is when you can expect One Piece Chapter 1119 to be released in different timezones:

• 12 AM JST (June 17)
• 11 AM EST
• 10 AM CST
• 8 AM PST

And that’s the confirmed release date for One Piece Chapter 1119.

One Piece is available to read online in English through VIZ Media and other services.

The official GKids account on X (formerly known as Twitter) announced that they had acquired the theatrical and home entertainment rights to the series. The first thing to come out of this new deal is the theatrical release of the first three episodes of the DAN DA DAN anime, with a release date of September 13th, 2024. Dandadan is a manga that deals with the supernatural and paranormal, making a Friday the 13th premiere date in the U.S. feel very appropriate. The anime is being produced by the animation studio Science SARU, who have previously worked on projects such as the Scott Pilgrim animated series for Netflix and the critically acclaimed film INU-OH.

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DAN DA DAN‘s theatrical release is quite a big deal, as the September 13th release date is an entire month before the first episode is supposed to premiere on TV in Japan. It’s clear that the anime is expected to be a big hit due to the manga’s immense popularity. This popularity is even evident in the streaming release, as DAN DA DAN will be available to watch in October on Crunchyroll, Netflix, and Hulu. However, if you want to catch the first three episodes early, be sure to keep an eye on the official GKids page for the series, as showtimes will be posted there soon.

The theatrical release will include bonus content, including an exclusive video interview with Yukinobu Tatsu and Shihei Lin, the author and editor of the original Dandadan manga, director Fuga Yamashiro, and Shion Wakayama (voice of Momo) and Natsuki Hanae (voice of Okarun).