Horror Reviews and Features | Little White Lies

Genre Horror

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.
Review

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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Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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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1
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
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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4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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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2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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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4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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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3
In Retrospect
Intense crimson and orange hues, abstract composition with blurry edges.
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Talk to Me review – visually and emotionally brutal horror

by Katherine McLaughlin

YouTube duo Michael and Dan­ny Philip­pou make the ambi­tious leap to fea­ture film­mak­ing with a thor­ough­ly dis­turb­ing, uncom­pro­mis­ing horror.

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Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
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Group of women on stage, performing under neon infinity symbol. Vibrant pink and purple lighting.
Review

Medusa

by Marina Ashioti

A blend of hor­ror and satire unveil­ing the vio­lent para­dox­es of reli­gious hypocrisy and aes­thet­ic expectations.

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Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Group of blue-clad humanoid figures in a forested setting.
Review

Smoking Causes Coughing

by Saskia Lloyd Gaiger

Eccen­tric French direc­tor Quentin Dupieux is total­ly dégagé about the ludi­crous lame­ness of his lat­est comedy.

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3
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3
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A woman embracing a young child in a low-lit, red-toned room.
Review

The Boogeyman

by Anton Bitel

A griev­ing fam­i­ly find them­selves ter­rorised by a super­nat­ur­al mon­ster in Rob Sav­age’s jump to big stu­dio horror.

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Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect