Nicolas Cage continues to supply nightmare gasoline for the promotion of his new horror movie, Longlegs.
On Wednesday, July 24, the film’s official Instagram web page shared audio of Cage, 60, singing a music because the titular killer, identified additionally by his actual identify, Dale Kobble.
“Mr. Downstairs at your door,” Cage croons, utilizing Longlegs’ affectionate nickname for Devil.
The caption described the eerie tune, which known as “Hearth Hearth Hearth, Hiss” as “the final identified musical recording by Dale Ferdinand Kobble earlier than the voices took over.”
The demonic rock music, which was shared alongside a video of a doll’s reflection in a mirror, options fuzzy bass, howling vocals and nonsensical lyrics.
“Like a cannonball, like a volleyball, good, good,” Cage sings.
Cage performs a murderous devil-worshiper in Longlegs, which hit theaters on July 12, and his sinister character was impressed, partially, by his mom.
“For some purpose, once I learn the script, I heard my mom’s voice. After which I met with director Oz Perkins. And the very first thing he stated to me was, ‘Nic, this can be a film about my mom,’” he advised The New Yorker earlier this month. “And I stated, ‘Effectively, that’s very fascinating, Oz, as a result of I used to be simply considering that I need to make this character about my mother.’”
Cage went on to clarify how his mother’s “scary” vocalizations helped him develop Longlegs’ voice.
“She would speak, like, ‘Ooh, Nicky, you seemed identical to somewhat fowl once you have been born.’ And that was simply scary,” he defined. “I feel my mother did in addition to she may with the scenario through which she was contending with, but it surely was nonetheless scary. So I believed, ‘OK, I need to make this character as a form of homage to my mom.’ Not that she was satanic, however her vocalizations, the way in which she would transfer.”
Cage underwent fairly a metamorphosis for the function with facial prosthetics, thick pale make-up and a wig. To construct suspense, Longlegs’ face was not revealed within the trailer or some other promotional supplies for the movie.
“It’s driving folks in direction of a freak present at a circus tent,” Perkins, 50, stated of deciding to protect the thriller. “We’ve received the factor backstage, and when there’s sufficient folks gathered ‘spherical, we’re going to drag the curtain.”
Maika Monroe, who performed Lee Harker, the FBI agent searching Longlegs, didn’t see Cage’s makeover till they filmed their first scene collectively.
“The primary time Maika Monroe noticed Nicolas Cage as Longlegs, her coronary heart price hit 170 bpm,” learn a promo for the film shared by way of X earlier this month.
The teaser additionally included a quote from Monroe, 31: “Once I walked in and noticed Nicolas Cage for the primary time as Longlegs, that was a visceral expertise I’ll always remember.”