We Applied A Number Cipher To The Symbols In Neon’s Mysterious New Teaser Every Year There Is Another-You’re Welcome

Neon has a habit of making horror movies that are enigmatic, controversial, and usually pretty freaky. Along with A24, they are masters at viral marketing. A newly released Neon teaser leaves many clues but very little hard information. Which of the many horror movies they have coming out in 2024 does this teaser refer to? We don’t know, but we have some theories based on number ciphers and storyline consistency. It pays to have math nerds in my house. Dive into the deep pool of speculation as we decipher the hidden clues in Neon’s eerie new teaser.

The symbolsIn typical Neon fashion, they delivered a teaser a few days ago with no title attached that was beyond creepy. A photograph from a family birthday party zooms in slowly while ominous music plays, and a recording of a male voice calling 911 is heard. Most of what he says is hard to understand, but clear as a bell is the chilling line, ” That’s not my daughter.” Obviously, the new film will include a plot line where at least one person is not who they appear to be.

Neon has several films coming out in 2024, all of which sound incredible. One is a Norwegian film called Handling The Undead, which is about a family thrown into chaos when a dead relative returns to them. A Norwegian film about ghosts probably wouldn’t have an American family worried about an imposter daughter. Immaculate, a Sydney Sweeney vehicle about a devout woman in an Italian convent, doesn’t seem to fit the Neon teaser either.

Another film, Cuckoo, from Luz director Tilman Singer, is largely unknown. The few details available share cast details and a light storyline. A teenage girl and her family go to a mysterious resort where things are not what they seem. The cast includes Legion’s Dan Stevens, Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer, and Jessica Henwick. Cuckoos are birds that lay eggs in other birds’ nests, wait for them to hatch, and then kick everyone else out. That could relate to a father who doesn’t think his daughter is who she appears to be. Additionally, Singer’s trippy Luz is a film about a woman possessed. Maybe the daughter will be possessed by something otherworldly. It is possible, but my money is on the last movie in their reported list.

The Neon teaser opens with the Polaroid and a 911 call, then cuts to someone lying on the ground with long, thin legs. The person is wearing legwarmers, and it appears there are more arms than should belong to one human. The teaser concludes with a red title card featuring eight symbols that appear to be backward. What these have to do with anything is unclear, but several theories are plausible. Some of the symbols look like backward letters, while others are not alphanumeric characters at all.

Assigning a simple number cipher to each symbol could offer a clue. The first and the fifth symbols are the same, as well as the fourth and the seventh. There are eight letters in the word Longlegs, and using the cipher translates the symbols into Longlegs. That, of course, could be a coincidence, and the symbols could be a completely different code. The symbols look vaguely like Cuneiform or Phonecian. Both are ancient languages and as with anything ancient, they could be manipulated into being demonic.

Longlegs stars Nic Cage and Maika Monroe, directed by Oz Perkins of The Blackcoat’s Daughter and Gretel and Hansel. Monroe plays FBI agent Lee Harker, who is investigating a string of grisly murders that have ties to her past. She must stop the killer before he strikes again. Cage, I’m sure, will be at his Cagiest wildness. Whether he is the leader of some demonic cult or a pawn, we will have to wait and see.

At first glance, this film doesn’t seem to have much to do with the Neon teaser, but Cage has described his character as a “possessed Geppetto,” which makes one think about possession. The scene just before the symbols at the end of the teaser shows a pair of long, skinny legs in a prone position. The picture is odd as we can only see below the waist, and there appears to be an extra arm attached or laid on by the owner of the legs.

The teaser is named Every Year There Is Another. This indicates that a series of terrible murders have gone on for years, and if the legwarmers, Polaroid, and side ponytail are anything to go from, the picture is from the 80s. This means there have been murders for nearly forty years.

The picture is odd as we can only see below the waist. There appears to be an extra arm attached or covering the owner of the legs. The fabric on the extra arm does not match the woman in the Polaroid, so it isn’t her mother unless it happened at some point other than the birthday party. Is it possible there is some occult angle where a group locates and takes over the lives of girls with long legs? Is it a reference to spiders? Probably not, but anything is possible. The biggest question after who the extra arm belongs to is: what is the black square lying beside the arms?

Considering Cage refers to his character as Geppetto, it makes me think he is “pulling the strings” of all of these killings. He could use the replacements or possessed girls to kill more people, allowing him to kill from afar. Maybe he and his cult have the power to turn golems into girls to replace the ones he kills. The symbols aren’t overtly demonic but that doesn’t mean this isn’t a fictional language with a developed mythos attached.

There is no official release date for Longlegs, but moviegoers report a teaser for Longlegs in theaters before Night Swim. A video of that teaser was secretly filmed and uploaded, claiming to be for Longlegs. The video has since been taken down, but several people corroborate the claim. We will have to watch and wait for more information as it becomes available.