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- News
CinemaChords’ Best Horror Movies of 2025 (So Far): Top Horror Films You Need to See
Survival Shocker ‘River’ Starring Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe Heads to Theaters
Apple TV+ Reveals First Stills and Premiere Date for Season Two of “The Last Thing He Told Me”
Freddy’s Back for Seconds: New Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 Trailer Sees Fazfest Reopen Old Wounds
Lionsgate Secures Worldwide Rambo 6 Distribution and Full Expendables Franchise Rights Across Film, TV, and Games
- Movie/TV Reviews
CinemaChords’ Best Horror Movies of 2025 (So Far): Top Horror Films You Need to See
‘IF YOU SEE SOMETHING’ Review: A Nuanced Meditation on Identity, Moral Responsibility, and the Struggle to Navigate a World That Is at Once Welcoming and Alienating
‘FRANKENSTEIN’ Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Reverent Gothic Adaptation Delivers a Powerful Lament on Hubris-Fuelled Ambition
Film Review: ‘Shelby Oaks’ – Chris Stuckmann’s Ambitious, Unnerving Found-Footage Hybrid Marks a Confident Directorial Debut
‘Tron: Ares Review’ – A Neon-Charged Colossus, Yet Failing to Connect with the Code That Made the Grid Glow
- Movie/TV/Author Interviews
Christina Henry on ‘The Place Where They Buried Your Heart’ — A Community Haunted Across Generations
Alexandra Shipp and Nick Stahl on Revenge Thriller ‘Violent Ends’: Love, Loyalty and the Cost of Violence
Oday Rasheed and Jess Jacobs Interview: Connection in a World of Welcome and Exclusion in ‘If You See Something’
Adam Bakri on ‘If You See Something’: Exploring the Ultimate Struggle Between Rejection and Acceptance
Anchoring the Terror: Camille Sullivan on Bringing Chris Stuckmann’s Shelby Oaks to Authentic, Anxiety-Inducing Life
- Music Reviews
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods 2025 – Batch #26
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods 2025 – Batch #25
Pearce Macca on The Clause’s Explosive Debut, Victim of a Casual Thing: An Honest Portrait of Youth and Struggle
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods 2025 – Batch #24
The Subways: 20 Years from ‘Young for Eternity’ to ‘When I’m With You’ – Billy Lunn Interview
- Music Interviews
Pearce Macca on The Clause’s Explosive Debut, Victim of a Casual Thing: An Honest Portrait of Youth and Struggle
The Subways: 20 Years from ‘Young for Eternity’ to ‘When I’m With You’ – Billy Lunn Interview
Interview: Duncan Lloyd Unwinds New Album ‘Unwound’ – A Cathartic Rebellion Against Snack Culture
From Wigan to the World: The Lilacs’ Ollie Anglesea Talks New EP ‘The 395 (To Forever)’
INTERVIEW: The ‘KOKO’ Mojo, According to Lottery Winners’ Thom Rylance Prior to Fourth Album Release
- Features
Reimagining the ’80s: 10 Movies That Could Shine with a 2020s Twist
Unhinged, Unpolished, Unforgettable: 10 Wild ’70s and ’80s Cult Horror B-Movies Time Refuses to Tame
Rick Moranis and Mel Brooks Reunite as Long-Awaited Spaceballs Sequel Begins Filming
Escape Reality: The Most Thrilling Horror Movies That Will Help You Forget the World’s Woes!
Talk to the Dummy: Lionsgate to Reboot Anthony Hopkins’ Creepy Ventriloquist Classic ‘MAGIC’
- Books
Apple TV+ Reveals First Stills and Premiere Date for Season Two of “The Last Thing He Told Me”
CinemaChords’ Best Horror Books of 2025 (So Far): Top Horror Novels You Need to Read
Christina Henry on ‘The Place Where They Buried Your Heart’ — A Community Haunted Across Generations
Beyond Victor’s Lab: 12 Novels That Resurrect Shelleyan Monsters and Their Terrifying Toll in Celebration of Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN
Children’s Booker Prize Launched to Spark New Generation of Readers as Reading for Pleasure Hits Record Low
- Author Interviews
Christina Henry on ‘The Place Where They Buried Your Heart’ — A Community Haunted Across Generations
“Fandom today borders on the religious — and that’s both beautiful and terrifying”: Joey Batey on debut novel ‘It’s Not a Cult’, creativity, and the cost of being seen
‘Cathedral of the Drowned’ Interview: Nathan Ballingrud on Moon-Spun Nightmares, Centipede Bishops and Lunar Gothic Dread
Author Interview: The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale – Genre-Bending Stories and Timeless Fears
Neil McRobert Interview: Meet the Author Turning Northern Folklore into Haunting, Heartfelt Horror with ‘GOOD BOY’
- Book Reviews
‘The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre’ Book Review: A Retirement Home Slasher that Finds Life and Tenacity in the Shadow of Death
Chilling Reads Ahead: CinemaChords’ Top 10 Most Anticipated Horror Novels for July 2025
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
Author Interviews
Christina Henry on ‘The Place Where They Buried Your Heart’ — A Community Haunted Across Generations
Chicago-born author Christina Henry has long mastered the art of turning the familiar inside out, revealing the darkness that hides in plain sight. Known...
Box Office
This Friday, October 31, Violent Ends — a hard-hitting, Southern-set revenge thriller from writer-director John-Michael Powell (The Send-off) — arrives in cinemas, courtesy of...
Box Office
Iraqi filmmaker Oday Rasheed approached If You See Something with a clear purpose: to address one of the most fundamental human dilemmas – the...
Box Office
Horror has always been a shape-shifter, changing with the times to throw our darkest fears back at us in clever, unsettling ways. In 2025,...
Books
Horror, much like grief, refuses to stand still. It morphs with the times, reflecting our collective anxieties back to us in freshly monstrous forms....
MOVIES
Debuting this Friday, February 4 on Prime Video, Amazon Original’s new action-drama series, “Reacher,” dispenses with any memory of the previous two Tom Cruise-starring...
Interviews
The brand-new Amazon Original series, “Reacher,” starring Alan Ritchson (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, “Titans,” “Blood Drive”) and based on the novels by British author Lee Child...
Interviews
This Friday sees the debut of the brand-new Amazon Original series, “Reacher,” starring Alan Ritchson (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, “Titans,” “Blood Drive”) and...
Killer Chords
M. Night Shyamalan‘s psychological shocker, “Servant” is poised to return to Apple TV+ for its third, and penultimate season – with the show recently...
Box Office
To celebrate the impending release of the long-awaited fifth entry in the SCREAM movie franchise, several members who have been involved since the original...
Box Office
Most one-shot movies, with the exception of the odd exception, tend to end up feeling either gimmicky or the actors are clearly overly-enrapt in...
Cinema
As 2021 draws to an end, it’s safe to say it’s played host to an amazing array of horror fare. As per usual, this...
Headlines
Action movie fans are in for one final treat before the end of 2021 as the Dolph Lungren-helmed action-packed extravaganza Castle Falls releases this...
Features
Barbara Crampton has enjoyed a storied screen career, but if there’s one particular subgenre we’ve seen her revisit time and time again, it has...
Headlines
Chucky, has been shocking and charming audiences for decades ever since he sliced and diced his way into the pop culture zeitgeist when “Child’s...
Killer Chords
Channeling the horror elements of Capcom’s first two Resident Evil video games, Johannes Roberts‘ (47 Meters Down) Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City will...
Headlines
In a recent exclusive interview with me for Scream Magazine, Director Stephen Hopkins delved into all manner of anecdotes regarding 1990’s return of the...
Video Interviews
With just one more week to wait with bated breath until the theatrical release of the highly-anticipated sequel Fast & Furious 8, Universal have...
Box Office
There’s something about a true story being played out on the big screen that makes a film heightened in some way, as if the...
Headlines
22 May 2015, London: Hollywood superstar Dwayne Johnson achieved the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the most selfies in the space of 3 minutes at the World...
Video Interviews
Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) shares his thoughts for filmmakers. If you are half as excited for Godzilla as we are then you are no doubt...
Video Interviews
On Wednesday 16th April, Cineworld Birmingham played host to the premiere of the outstanding British drama Locke. Those attending the screening were also joined...