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“Longlegs” has some long legs at the box office. After three weeks in release, the occult thriller has grossed a whopping $58.6 million in North America, enough to become the highest-grossing indie horror film of the past decade.

“Longlegs” surpassed A24’s “Talk to Me” ($48 million domestic) to reach the milestone. “Talk to Me” has a bigger global gross with $92.1 million, while “Longlegs” has earned $62 million worldwide to date.

The film is also Neon’s highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing the Oscar-winning “Parasite” with $53.36 million in North America. (Neon is a domestic distributor and typically does not control all international markets for its films.)

“Longlegs” premiered earlier in July and became a sleeper hit, grossing $22.6 million in its first weekend and setting a new box office record for Neon in the process. Sydney Sweeney’s religious horror film “Immaculate” previously ranked as the indie company’s biggest opener with $5.3 million in March. For comparison, only 15 independent studio releases in the past decade have opened above $20 million. Ticket sales remained strong in its second outing with $11.7 million, a 48% drop from its debut, and again in its third weekend with $6.7 million from 2,730 theaters.

Neon kept production costs low (the budget was less than $10 million) and the digital-focused marketing campaign cost about the same as the film itself, resulting in decent profit margins.

Directed by Osgood Perkins, the film follows Maika Monroe (“It Follows”) as FBI agent Lee Harker, who is on the hunt for serial killer Longlegs (Nicolas Cage). The case takes an unexpected turn when she discovers a sinister personal connection to the killer and works to stop him before he strikes again.