SPOILERS The Longlegs character, which was the movie's big selling point, was largely redundant and useless.

So there's a scenery-chewing Nicholas Cage, playing a psychotic trans woman, and all they do is give one threatening speech, make some dolls in a basement straight out of Serial Killer's Home Journal, and smash their head in on a table.

Longlegs does nothing. Longlegs was a wasted character. They perform some obscure doll ritual to make fathers kill their families, but there is no immediate threat from Longlegs. The agent's mom was a bigger threat in this! At least she committed actual murder.

The movie could have easily been done without Longlegs participating at all.

They should have abandoned the stupid supernatural angle entirely and just made Longlegs a no-holds-barred creepy psychotic killer with way more Cage freakiness and a bloodcurdling backstory.