Individuals who have seen Nicolas Cage’s new horror film “Longlegs” know the way closely the eerie dolls made by the actor’s titular serial killer issue into the plot — notably its ending, the place Lee (Maika Monroe) finds out that one among Longlegs’ satanic dolls has been influencing her house all alongside. Nevertheless, audiences may not know that the doll side of the extraordinary film’s finale was really impressed by a really actual, unsolved homicide thriller.

Fortunately, there’s no direct equal to the story of “Longlegs” in actual life, however the film’s doll sequences draw inspiration from the JonBenét Ramsey case, wherein a six-year-old lady little one magnificence queen was discovered useless in her house’s basement in late 1996 underneath mysterious circumstances that concerned a wierd ransom letter, a fancy and ongoing investigation, and a large quantity of nationwide consideration. As writer-director Osgood Perkins instructed Inverse, one doll-themed element from the Ramsey case caught his eye and ended up influencing “Longlegs.”

“The homicide occurred approaching Christmas, and one current that the dad and mom had gotten for JonBenét was a life-size reproduction doll of herself, carrying one among her pageant clothes,” he explains. “It was in a cardboard field within the basement, 15 toes from the place she was killed, and there was one thing so insane about that, I’d cataloged it away.”