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Longlegs

In 1974 Oregon, a young girl with a Polaroid camera follows a mysterious voice and encounters an erratic man in pale makeup.

Twenty years later, FBI agent Lee Harker is assigned by her supervisor, William Carter, to a case involving a series of murder–suicides in Oregon. Each case consists of a father killing his family, then himself, leaving behind a letter with Satanic glyphs signed "Longlegs", whose handwriting belongs to none of the family members. Lee exhibits possible clairvoyance and manages to decode Longlegs' letters.

Further investigation reveals that each family had a 9-year-old daughter born on the 14th day of the month. The murders all occurred within six days before or after said birthday, and their respective dates form an occult triangle symbol on a calendar, with one date missing. While at home talking on the phone to her mother, Ruth, Lee receives a coded birthday card from Longlegs, warning her that revealing its source will lead to her mother's murder.

Following a clue, Lee and William discover a doll containing a high-energy metal orb inside its head. After visiting a mental hospital to question Carrie Anne Camera, the sole survivor of Longlegs' murders who was visited previously by someone using Lee's name, William suspects Lee has a connection to Longlegs. Discovering that Ruth had filed a police report of an intruder approaching Lee the day before her 9th birthday, William instructs Lee to visit her. Ruth directs Lee to her childhood belongings, where she finds a Polaroid that reveals Longlegs to be the man who visited a young Lee on her birthday in the opening sequence.

Lee submits the photo, leading to Longlegs' arrest. Realizing the missing calendar date is that day, Lee fears an unknown accomplice of Longlegs will carry out the murder. In an interrogation room, Longlegs claims to serve " the man downstairs " and hints at Ruth's involvement in the murders before taking his own life by repeatedly bashing his face and forehead onto the metal table. Shortly after leaving the interrogation room, Lee is informed by William that Carrie Anne has committed suicide.

Agent Browning drives Lee to Ruth's home. Browning waits in the car outside while Lee searches the house, but Ruth approaches the car and fatally shoots Browning before destroying a doll resembling a young Lee, causing Lee to lose consciousness. In a vision, Lee discovers that she had been threatened by Longlegs as a child, who only spared her after Ruth pleaded for her life. In return for sparing Lee, Longlegs demanded Ruth's servitude; Ruth agreed, allowing Longlegs to live in the Harker basement and create Satanic dolls that Ruth, posing as a nun, delivered to households, causing each family's patriarch to commit familicide. Lee's doll blocked her memories of Longlegs while influencing her with his magic.

Lee awakens in the basement and answers the phone, where a demonic voice warns her about William's daughter Ruby's 9th birthday party, scheduled for that day. Lee rushes to save the Carters, whose deaths would complete Longlegs' triangle. She finds Ruth has already delivered the doll and possessed the family. After William murders his wife, Anna, Lee fatally shoots him to protect Ruby. Ruth lunges at Ruby with a dagger, forcing Lee to kill her. Lee tries to destroy the doll, but her revolver misfires. She yells for an unresponsive Ruby to leave, who continues only to stare at the doll.