Horror Reviews and Features | Little White Lies

Genre Horror

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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 review – witless nonsense

by David Jenkins

Another unwatchable slasher dirge from the IP graverobbers behind 2023’s unlikely cause célèbre.

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Two individuals, one grasping the other in an intense embrace, with one person's mouth open in a scream.
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Abigail – avoid the trailer for maximum, bloody pleasure

by Anton Bitel

A pack of hired goons get more than they bargained for in this inventive and nasty evil kid romp.

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Shadowy, ghostly apparition with hollow eyes and an unsettling expression against a dark background.
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All You Need Is Death review – a memorable fiction debut

by David Jenkins

A young couple get more than they bargained for when they translate a rare folk ballad in this effective Irish horror.

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A woman wearing an elaborate gold and white gown, with a long sheer veil, stands in a grand ornate church setting with two women in black habits at her sides.
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Immaculate review – get thee to a different nunnery

by Hannah Strong

Sydney Sweeney plays a pious young nun who finds herself unexpectedly expecting in Michael Mohan’s slightly underwhelming take on the nunspoiltation movie.

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A woman in a white blouse standing on a wooden staircase, surrounded by decorative railings and a large framed painting on the wall behind her.
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Raging Grace review – combines righteous anger with well-executed chills

by David Jenkins

An undocumented Filipina immigrant secures a care job to provide a better life for her young daughter, but it turns out to be something more sinister in Paris Zarcilla’s horror.

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Three plush toy characters from a popular video game franchise, including a blue rabbit-like figure, a brown bear-like figure, and a yellow chicken-like figure, against a lit background.
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Five Nights at Freddy’s – nonsensical robo-slasher trash

by David Jenkins

What appears as a fun robotic slasher lark turns out to be a deathly dull rip-off of various trauma-based horror yarns which fails to deliver in either the serious or silly stakes.

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An elderly woman sitting in an armchair by a roaring fireplace in a cosy, dimly lit library.
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Doctor Jekyll review – gives Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing a run for their money

by Lillian Crawford

Hammer Horror returns with a genderflipped take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic novel, starring Eddie Izzard as a leading figure of the pharmaceutical industry with a dark secret.

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Two women sleeping together, embracing each other, with solemn expressions on their faces in a dimly lit scene.
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The Exorcist: Believer – a trashy, overstuffed requel

by Anton Bitel

David Gordon Green returns in his role of classic horror reboot guy to exhume and retool William Friedkin’s The Exorcist for new audiences. The results are not pretty at all.

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Eerie, sinister-looking puppet with red bowtie and tag, in a dark, moody setting.
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Saw X review – America’s most blood-thirsty civil engineer is back

by Hannah Strong

Tobin Bell returns as the twisted killer Jigsaw in this back-to-basics sequel, which sees him exact revenge on a group of medical scammers preying on the terminally ill.

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Two individuals, a woman in a striped top and a man in a green jacket, engaged in conversation at a table with various items on it.
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The Blackening review – a novel take on the horror parody

by Cheyenne Bart-Stewart

A group of friends head for a cabin in the woods only to face off with a killer in this fresh horror spoof, from the writer of Girls Trip.

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