Horror Reviews and Features | Little White Lies

Genre Horror

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Review

Heretic review – Hugh Grant is a horror natural

by Leila Latif

Two Mor­mon mis­sion­ar­ies get more than they bar­gained for when they drop in on Hugh Grant in Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ effec­tive psy­cho­log­i­cal horror.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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The Front Room review – a strangely scatalogical chamber piece

by Patrick Sproull

The­atre leg­end Kathryn Hunter camps it up as a sin­is­ter old bid­dy ter­ror­is­ing her daugh­ter-in-law Brandy Nor­wood in the hor­ror debut from Max and Sam Eggers.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Smile 2 review – this is going to ruin the tour

by Hannah Strong

Park­er Finn fol­lows up his 2022 smash with a suit­ably sil­ly sequel, in which a pop star becomes the lat­est vic­tim of the grin­ning demon who dri­ves vic­tims to suicide.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Terrifier 3 review – deck the halls with small intestines

by Charles Bramesco

Damien Leone’s cult favourite killer clown returns for some fes­tive fun in the third instal­ment in the gore­tas­tic franchise.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

The Substance review – as shallow as the very thing it’s critiquing

by Hannah Strong

Coralie Fargeat’s sup­posed satire on Hol­ly­wood’s impos­si­ble stan­dards for women is an ulti­mate­ly unpleas­ant and ugly screed against those that try to play the game.

4
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Speak No Evil review – an effective game of cat and mouse

by David Jenkins

James McAvoy is a blast as the over­ly-friend­ly patri­arch who invites unwit­ting tourists back to his west coun­try stack for fun and games.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Red Rooms review – a claustrophobic tech-tinged nightmare

by Hannah Strong

Pas­cal Plante’s haunt­ing dra­ma exam­ines the dark real­i­ty of the true crime indus­tri­al com­plex in ele­gant and aus­tere fashion.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Starve Acre review – all texture and no teeth

by Michael Leader

Matt Smith and Morfy­dd Clark play a cou­ple who move to an iso­lat­ed York­shire Dales estate in Daniel Kokotajlo’s folk horror.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

Cuckoo review – never quite takes flight

by Hannah Strong

A young woman begins to sus­pect some­thing is des­per­ate­ly wrong at the ski resort her fam­i­ly have moved to in Tilman Singer’s uneven sopho­more film.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Alien: Romulus review – does enough to get a passing mark

by David Jenkins

The Xenomorphs are allowed to run amok once more in this pass­able fran­chise offshoot.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect