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- News
CUSP Continue English Country Build-Up With New Single ‘Me And Lily In The Falling Rain’
The Lathums Return After Over a Year With ‘Vice Versa’, Channelling Questions of Identity
Tubi FrightFest 2026 Announces Largest Programme in Festival History
‘Evil Dead Burn’ Movie Review: A Symphony of Savagery That Overplays Its Hand
First ‘The Whisper Man’ Trailer Brings Alex North’s Bestselling Chiller Novel to Life
- Movie/TV Reviews
‘Evil Dead Burn’ Movie Review: A Symphony of Savagery That Overplays Its Hand
‘Toy Story 5’ Movie Review: A Heartfelt Celebration of Imagination in a Digital World
‘Obsession’ Movie Review: The Death of the Meet-Cute and the Dark, Twisted Reality of Controlled Desires
‘HOKUM’ Movie Review: A Meticulously Malignant Psychological Conundrum Served with Caustic Wit
Future Perfect: 10 Sci‑Fi Films That Find Hope Amid the Rise of AI and Technology
- Movie/TV/Author Interviews
Author Interview: Araminta Hall on Unreliable Narrator, Narrative Authority and the Elusiveness of Truth
The Gothic Reframed: Charlotte Cross on Carving a Fresh Voice Within the Dracula Mythos in Her Debut Novel ‘The Brides’
Chuck Tingle Talks ‘Fabulous Bodies’: Turning Influencer Culture into Blood-Soaked Midnight Movie Mayhem
Paul Tremblay on ‘Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep,’ AI, Human Agency and the Horror of Surrendering Ourselves to Technology
HUNGRY Interview: James Nunn, Madison Davenport & Jim Meskimen on Nature’s Deadliest Predator and Avoiding B-movie Animal Attack Clichés
- Music Reviews
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods’ Top Tracks of June 2026
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods’ Top Tracks of May 2026
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods’ Top Tracks of April 2026
Album Review: ‘Limbo, Please Be Good To Me’ by Crocodylus: A Frenetic, Deftly Formulated Portrait of Modern Malaise
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods’ Top Tracks of March 2026
- Music Interviews
Sydney’s Crocodylus Talk Doubling Down on Garage-Punk Chaos with New Album ‘Limbo, Please Be Good To Me’
Riding a Maximum High: Shed Seven celebrate 30 years with Triumphant ‘Shedcember X’ Winter Tour
Rick McMurray Talks The Transition from ASH to Solo Side Project BURNED AS WITCHES
Tom Clarke Talks Social Disguises: The Enemy’s Comeback Album Made on Their Own Terms
INTERVIEW: Composer Geoff Zanelli on Navigating Tonal Whiplash to Score ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’
- Features
Scared Straight to Serenity: Finding Catharsis Amidst the Chaos of Horror
Escape Reality: The Most Thrilling Horror Movies That Will Help You Forget the World’s Woes!
Reimagining the ’80s: 10 Movies That Could Shine with a 2020s Twist
Zack Snyder to write and direct long-gestating ‘Escape from New York’ remake
Forget the Blockbusters: 10 Essential ’80s Action Thrillers You Might Have Missed
- Books
First ‘The Whisper Man’ Trailer Brings Alex North’s Bestselling Chiller Novel to Life
2026 Horror Book Releases: CinemaChords’ Most Anticipated Anthologies for the Second Half of the Year
Author Interview: Araminta Hall on Unreliable Narrator, Narrative Authority and the Elusiveness of Truth
Focus Features Picks Up John Langan’s ‘The Fisherman’ With David Lowery Attached to Direct
Apple TV+ Unveils First Look At Lars Kepler Adaptation ‘Nocturne’ Starring Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz & Stephen Graham
- Author Interviews
Author Interview: Araminta Hall on Unreliable Narrator, Narrative Authority and the Elusiveness of Truth
The Gothic Reframed: Charlotte Cross on Carving a Fresh Voice Within the Dracula Mythos in Her Debut Novel ‘The Brides’
Chuck Tingle Talks ‘Fabulous Bodies’: Turning Influencer Culture into Blood-Soaked Midnight Movie Mayhem
Paul Tremblay on ‘Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep,’ AI, Human Agency and the Horror of Surrendering Ourselves to Technology
‘We Can’t Stop Progress—We Can Only Mop Up the Mess’: Daniel Kraus on His Sci-Fi Frightmare ‘The Sixth Nik,’ Cronenbergian Biotech, and the Fight for Human Emotion
- Book Reviews
2026 Horror Book Releases: CinemaChords’ Most Anticipated Anthologies for the Second Half of the Year
Author Interview: Araminta Hall on Unreliable Narrator, Narrative Authority and the Elusiveness of Truth
The Gothic Reframed: Charlotte Cross on Carving a Fresh Voice Within the Dracula Mythos in Her Debut Novel ‘The Brides’
Chuck Tingle Talks ‘Fabulous Bodies’: Turning Influencer Culture into Blood-Soaked Midnight Movie Mayhem
‘The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre’ Book Review: A Retirement Home Slasher that Finds Life and Tenacity in the Shadow of Death
Box Office
Few horror franchises have proved as resilient as Evil Dead. Across four decades, Sam Raimi‘s cult classic has evolved from scrappy cabin-in-the-woods shocker into...
Box Office
Three decades have passed since Toy Story premiered as the shiny, silicon-slick harbinger of a new celluloid era, fundamentally rewriting the grammar of digital...
Box Office
Historically, horror has always had a symbiotic relationship with humor, but the relentless, internet-incubated malice of Obsession suggests that the modern transition from online...
MUSIC
CUSP have shared ‘Me And Lily In The Falling Rain’, the latest harbinger of their forthcoming debut album, English Country, due for release on...
Headlines
Apple Original Films has released the official trailer and key art for Mayday, an upcoming action-comedy starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh. Directed, written...
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...
Movie Reviews
In The Ranger, Jenn Wexler – the producer of films like Darling and Most Beautiful Island – makes an explosive feature directorial debut. Following...
Features
In director Jon Knautz‘s The Cleaning Lady the lonely Alice (Alexis Kendra) befriends Shelly (Rachel Alig), a woman scarred by burns. The two develop...
Cinema
In Wish Upon, Clare (Joey King),a teenager who is struggling during her time at school, discovers a mysterious and magical box that grants her seven...
Box Office
In 2002, Evil Dead director Sam Raimi weaved a web of movies for Tobey Maguire’s fresh-faced nerd Peter Parker turned superhero Spider-Man. Spawning one...
Cinema
It Comes at Night is a work of taut, paranoiac angst, agonizingly tearing open an unsettling fissure at the heart of modern societal fears,...
Cinema
There are roles that actors inhabit that stay with them for the whole of their career, no matter how far they try to break...
DVD
I am just going to say it… In the long run it will mean so much to fans of the genre that Mike Mendez...
Movie Reviews
Sequence Break Review – 3.5 stars Graham Skipper‘s Sequence Break is difficult to describe with its strange, bizarre and complex story that blurs the line...
Cinema
When an isolated corporate building is mysteriously put under lock-down, a sinister voice on the intercom announces that the employees must kill each other...