Horror Reviews and Features | Little White Lies

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Review

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.

4
Anticipation
4
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4
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Review

Medusa

by Marina Ashioti

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

3
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3
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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.

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.

4
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3
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4
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Woman taking pills from an assortment of medication on a wooden table.
Review

Sick Of Myself

by David Jenkins

A competitive pair of self-obsessed narcissists will do just about anything for attention in Kristoffer Borgli’s satirical feature debut.

3
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3
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3
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Two men, one wearing a black coat with fur collar and the other wearing a striped sweater, sitting together and smiling.
Review

Renfield

by Hannah Strong

Nicholas Hoult plays Count Dracula’s long-suffering servant in Chris McKay’s underwhelming horror-comedy.

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3
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2
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Review

Evil Dead Rise

by David Jenkins

Lee Cronin’s affectionate, gore-caked remix of Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead offers an innovative and breathtaking model of how to exhume a beloved genre franchise.

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4
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4
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Man with a long, grey beard wearing a black robe in a dimly lit room.
Review

The Pope’s Exorcist

by Hannah Strong

Russell Crowe plays a priest charged by the Vatican with driving out demons in Julius Avery’s underwhelming religious horror.

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2
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2
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Two people seated at a table on a patio at night, with candles and a view of a dark, hilly landscape in the background.
Review

Infinity Pool

by Hannah Strong

Alexander Skarsgård has a pretty bad trip in this vacation nightmare from body horror wunderkind Brandon Cronenberg.

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4
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Review

Pearl

by David Jenkins

Ti West pays homage in The Wizard of Oz in the prequel to his throwback slasher X – but Mia Goth really makes this one sing.

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4
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