Horror Reviews and Features | Little White Lies

Genre Horror

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Review

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
A woman with blonde hair and a determined expression holds a weapon in an interior setting with a wooden door and another figure in the background.
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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.

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Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
A young man and woman sitting on a couch, surrounded by a neon green lighting.
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I Saw the TV Glow review – an instant queer classic

by Esther Rosenfield

Jane Schoenbrun’s sophomore feature is an unnerving take on loneliness, isolation, and the enduring mysteries of children’s media.

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Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Two people, a woman and a man, sitting on a sofa in a living room. The woman wears a light-coloured top and the man wears a dark top.
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Sleep review – Jason Yu has the juice

by Josh Slater-Williams

A newlywed couple are haunted by sleepless nights in Jason Yu’s confident, darkly humorous debut feature.

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Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Longlegs review – a harrowing serial killer thriller

by Hannah Strong

A rookie FBI agent with psychic abilities hunts down a ruthless serial killer in Osgood Perkins’ thoroughly unnerving, fantastically odd horror.

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Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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In A Violent Nature review – great premise, poor execution

by Hannah Strong

Chris Nash’s innovative spin on a horror staple boasts an excellent set-up, but falls flat in its final act.

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Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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MaXXXine review – it kinda suxxx

by David Jenkins

Mia Goth’s porn starlet cleans up her CV with a bloody vengeance in this underwhelming and overreaching horror threequel.

4
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2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Sorcery – A witch trial movie with a magical-realist twist

by Anton Bitel

Christopher Murray directs and stars in this intriguing and original drama about an 1880s Chilean trial for witchcraft.

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Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect