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Trailer for Lionsgate’s ‘BLOAT’: Ben McKenzie Stars in Screenlife Horror from Producer of ‘SEARCHING’ and ‘UNFRIENDED’
The Lathums Drop No-Holds-Barred, Glam Firecracker Single in Build Up to March Album Release
10 Groundbreaking Ghost Films That Will Haunt You Before/After Watching Steven Soderbergh’s ‘PRESENCE’
Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk Take a Stab at Summer Camp Slashers in First Trailer for NEON’s ‘HELL OF A SUMMER’
Rise Against Drops First New Material in Three Years with Powerful Rally Cry “Nod”
- Movie/TV Reviews
10 Uplifting Sci-Fi Movies on Prime Video to Ring in 2025
CinemaChords’ 25 Best Horror Movies of 2024
‘THE INVISIBLE RAPTOR’ Movie Review: An Ingeniously Bonkers B-movie That Punches Far Above its Weight Class
‘WEREWOLVES’ Movie Review: As Radically Genre-Transformative as Best in Show Classics ‘An American Werewolf in London’ and ‘Dog Soldiers’
‘DIE ALONE’ Movie Review: A Dystopian Thriller That Redefines the Genre with Gripping Depth and Emotional Resonance
- Movie/TV Interviews
Steven Soderbergh’s ‘PRESENCE’ Out This Week: Cast Talks Ghosts and the Film’s Chilling First-Person Approach
INTERVIEW: TRAILER PARK BOYS Talk Surviving the Rigors of ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties’
INTERVIEW: Sydney Scotia Talks Balancing Cozy, Festive Hallmark Movies and Chilling Directorial Debuts
INTERVIEW: James Bamford Talks Orwellian Sci-Fi Action Thriller ‘UTOPIA’
INTERVIEW: ‘THE INVISIBLE RAPTOR’ Creative Team Talk Mining Comedy Gold Through Shrewd Homage to Classic Genre Tropes
- Music Reviews
- Music Interviews
INTERVIEW: Bilk Embraces Chaos and Authenticity with Sophomore Album ‘Essex, Drugs and Rock and Roll’ and European Tour
INTERVIEW: EVAN DANDO Reveals Pragmatic Outlook on the Music Industry and Impending THE LEMONHEADS Album in 2025
INTERVIEW: ROLLA Talk Latest Explosive Single “IT AIN’T EASY” and new EP for March
‘NOTEWORTHY’ INTERVIEW: The Beautiful Game Celebrate Release of Sophomore Album ‘Common Royalty’
“A celebration of unwavering creative drive” – Patrick Duff on New Album “Another Word for Rose”
- Features
10 Groundbreaking Ghost Films That Will Haunt You Before/After Watching Steven Soderbergh’s ‘PRESENCE’
In Anticipation of ‘FLIGHT RISK’: 5 Intense Thrillers Set in Confined Spaces Where No One Can Be Trusted
Five Great Werewolf Novels to Sink Your Teeth Into Before (or after) Leigh Whannell’s ‘WOLF MAN’ Hits Cinemas
Escape Reality: The Most Thrilling Horror Movies That Will Help You Forget the World’s Woes!
A Short Mission: Alfred Imageworks’ ‘JohnnyExpress’ is up There With Pixar’s Best
- Competitions
WIN Tense and Violent Western ‘THE LAST MANHUNT’ Starring Jason Momoa
WIN Action-Packed Thriller ‘HIGH HEAT’ Starring Don Johnson and Olga Kurylenko
WIN LUCIFER: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON ON DVD – OUT ON DVD AND BLU-RAY NOW
WIN THE CONJURING 2 ON DVD – OUT NOW ON BLU-RAY AND DVD
WIN FRIEND REQUEST ON DVD – OUT NOW ON BLU-RAY AND DVD
- Books
Five Great Werewolf Novels to Sink Your Teeth Into Before (or after) Leigh Whannell’s ‘WOLF MAN’ Hits Cinemas
Chilling Reads Ahead: CinemaChords’ Top 10 Most Anticipated Horror Novels for 2025
Horror Writers Take Center Stage in New Substack Documentary Series “FIRST WORD ON HORROR”
RLJE Films and Shudder Acquire U.S. Rights to ‘Clown in a Cornfield’ Slasher For May 2025 Theatrical Release
Interview: Nick Cutter on the Breakneck Thrills, Body Horror Chills and Poignant Pills of “THE QUEEN”
- Author Interviews
Interview: Nick Cutter on the Breakneck Thrills, Body Horror Chills and Poignant Pills of “THE QUEEN”
“Dark Matter” Author and Showrunner Blake Crouch Reveals the Intricacies of his Nightmarish Multiverse
Interview: Author Eric LaRocca Reflects on “THE TREES GREW BECAUSE I BLED THERE: COLLECTED STORIES”
INTERVIEW: Author Heather Parry on Chillingly Poignant Debut Gothic Novel “Orpheus Builds a Girl”
INTERVIEW: Cast & Creator on Apple’s Gritty, Prison-Set Thriller “Black Bird”
- Book Reviews
Chilling Reads Ahead: CinemaChords’ Top 10 Most Anticipated Horror Novels for 2025
“EVERYTHING THE DARKNESS EATS” Book Review: A Poignantly Provocative Supernatural Shocker
“SECLUDED CABIN SLEEPS SIX” Book Review: A refreshingly inventive twist on familiar thriller trappings
“I Have Some Questions for You” Book Review: An Ingeniously Elaborate, Poignant Whodunnit Thriller
“The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories” Review: A satisfyingly cohesive collection of haunting and heartfelt tales
Movie Reviews
A family awaken on Christmas morning to see that they’re trapped in their home. Mysterious black shutters have appeared on the doors and windows...
Box Office
Sony Pictures will release the highly-anticipated Insidious: The Red Door this Friday, which sees the cult horror franchise’s original cast back for what is...
Movie Reviews
SYNOPSIS: From the creators of the intense duo The Wave and The Quake, The Burning Sea takes us to the Norwegian coast, where a...
Killer Chords
Synopsis: A mother’s isolation of her teen daughter soon comes to blows when she discovers her family’s dark history and ties to witchcraft. My...
Cinema
SYNOPSIS: In Studio 666 The Foo Fighters (yep, those Foo Fighters) settle into a haunted house to record their latest album. To give them...
Cinema
In Vivarium, Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) and Gemma (Imogen Poots) are on the lookout for a new house and stumble upon an Estate Agency offering them...
Features
Satanic Panic is as silly as it sounds, but still boasts a generous amount of gory terror in its delightfully witty descent into Satanism....
Features
In this supernatural western set in the 1800s, a young woman is haunted by her past and, possibly, a demon while she reminisces about...
Movie Reviews
Daniel Isn’t Real follows a troubled student called Luke (Miles Robbins) who looks to his childhood imaginary friend Daniel (Patrick Schwarzenegger) for support when his family...
Movie Reviews
In Spiral, Malik (Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman), his partner Aaron (Ari Cohen) and daughter Kayla (Jennifer Laporte) move to the suburbs for a change of pace and a...
Movie Reviews
In director Joe Begos’ (The Mind’s Eye) astounding Bliss, a struggling artist called Dezzy (Dora Madison) resorts to taking a highly-addictive, hallucinatory drug called Bliss (a...
Movie Reviews
When I first saw the trailer for Crawl I thought it looked like a good time. I’m always keen for more creature features and...
Movie Reviews
Andre Ovredal (Trollhunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe) cements his place as one of the finest horror directors of the moment with his thrilling,...
Movie Reviews
Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green) has to adapt to an exciting and terrifying new way of life when he is fused with a computer chip...
Movie Reviews
When fences are knocked down, people go missing and mutilated bodies are found, a small town in the Australian outback begins to believe the...
Movie Reviews
Incident in a Ghostland is quite something. As it comes from Pascal Laugier, the director behind 2012’s hard-hitting Martyrs, you’ll be unsurprised to learn...
Movie Reviews
In the tradition of Stephen King tales like Stand By Me and It, and modern endeavours such as Netflix’s much-loved Stranger Things, Summer of...