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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....
Home Release News
Paramount Global unleashes James Bamford’s (High Ground, Man With No Past) latest high-stakes thriller, The Last Gunfight this week. Known for his stunt work...
Author Interviews
Get ready for a blood-soaked chill ride this May as Clown in a Cornfield arrives in theaters. RLJE Films and Shudder, are bringing Eli...
Box Office
Duncan Skiles’ character-driven investigative thriller Neighborhood Watch (formerly titled Nowhere Men) has officially hit theaters and on-demand platforms RLJE Films. Directed by Skiles, from...
Author Interviews
The world of contemporary horror has been cast into a bold new light with the release of the gripping documentary series “First Word on...
Box Office
Canadian filmmaker Chad Archibald has long been drawn to horror that gets under the skin—sometimes quite literally. From the grotesque transformations of Bite to...
Headlines
As the gritty Los Angeles noir Bosch: Legacy returns for its highly anticipated final season, fans are preparing to say goodbye to Harry Bosch—one...
Box Office
Get ready to dive into the explosive world of Zero, the impending action-thriller from director Jean Luc Herbulot (Saloum) and co-written by star Hus...
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Firebook Entertainment‘s highly anticipated feature, Párvulos, Children of the Apocalypse (spoiler-free review here), has arrived in theaters, promising a unique and unsettling cinematic experience....
Interviews
This week, Prime Video is set to release a devilishly entertaining new supernatural action series, “The Bondsman.” Starring Kevin Bacon as Hub Halloran, a...
Interviews
This week, Prime Video is set to unleash a devilishly entertaining new action supernatural series, with Kevin Bacon caught in a deal straight from...
Box Office
The slasher genre, like a phoenix rising from a pile of VHS tapes, never gets old, constantly reinventing itself to deliver that suspenseful, terrifying,...
Home Release News
Republic Pictures is ready to make a statement with their latest thriller, High Ground, directed by James Bamford. Known for his stunt work on...
Home Release News
Republic Pictures is all set to come out blazing with High Ground,, the latest thriller from James Bamford, a director whose stunt pedigree—more than...
Author Interviews
On the 7th of February, 2025, a particularly intriguing project materialized on Substack: “First Word on Horror,” a documentary series that feels like a...
Box Office
Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, is set to unleash Borderline, —a riotous stalker story that pushes the boundaries between romance and...
Author Interviews
Readers familiar with Philip Fracassi know him as a master of weaving together the eerie with the emotionally resonant. His tales, often steeped in...
Box Office
Get ready for Cold Wallet, the crypto heist thriller hitting theaters and digital platforms tomorrow, Friday, February 28, 2025. This film presents a gripping...