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Game Over: Five Macabre Game Show Movies to Prepare You for Edgar Wright’s ‘The Running Man’
Adam Bakri on ‘If You See Something’: Exploring the Ultimate Struggle Between Rejection and Acceptance
‘We expanded every level of the first film’: Kurtis David Harder on the Influencers Sequel, Coming to Shudder
Beyond Victor’s Lab: 12 Novels That Resurrect Shelleyan Monsters and Their Terrifying Toll in Celebration of Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods 2025 – Batch #25
- Movie/TV Reviews
‘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
‘The Smashing Machine’ Movie Review: A Monumental, Uncompromising Portrait of the Price Paid for Glory
‘Bone Lake’ Review: A Savage Tangle of Seduction, Betrayal, and the Brutality of Modern Romance
- Movie/TV/Author Interviews
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
“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
- Music Reviews
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
Album Review: The Clause – ‘Victim of a Casual Thing’: A Bold, Eclectic Debut With an Unshakable Sense of Purpose
- 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
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
CinemaChords’ Best Horror Books of 2025 (So Far): Top Horror Novels You Need to Read
“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 Interviews
“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’
Brian Asman Interview: ‘Man, F*ck This House’ Returns with 6 New Nightmares That Hit Uncomfortably Close to Home
- 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
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In a bold, high-octane reimagining of Stephen King’s 1982 dystopian novel, The Running Man is set to return to the big screen, directed by...
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When Iraqi filmmaker Oday Rasheed set out to make If You See Something, he wanted to explore what he calls “the ultimate struggle between...
Cult Cinema
The 1980s were a golden era for movies, giving birth to some of the most iconic, genre-defining films of all time. Whether you were...
Home Release News
The sun-soaked landscapes of southern France provide a deceptively serene backdrop for Influencers, the much-welcomed surprise sequel to Kurtis David Harder‘s 2022 horror-thriller Influencer....
Books
A major new award celebrating the best contemporary fiction for children has been announced today. The Children’s Booker Prize, supported by the AKO Foundation,...
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Born from a single, nightmarish image — a lone raft of soldiers hunted by something sinister beneath the waves — Beast of War is...
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Aaron Eckhart is back on four-pawed patrol in the trailer for Muzzle: City of Wolves, the surprise sequel to 2023’s gritty K-9 crime thriller...
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The Smashing Machine pulls back the curtain on a world sculpted by muscle and relentless will, exposing a far more vulnerable and achingly human...
Headlines
Prime Video has released the first official images from Playdate, the upcoming action-comedy that asks a simple question: what if your kid’s playdate turned...
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As the season turns, Bone Lake arrives in cinemas nationwide this Friday, October 3rd. Directed by Mercedes Bryce Morgan (Fixation, Spoonful of Sugar), this...
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Bleecker Street drops Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s (Fixation, Spoonful of Sugar) Bone Lake into theaters nationwide this Friday, October 3rd — a steamy, twisted chiller...
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This isn’t a raid! It’s a Reckoning! Aura Entertainment has debuted the official trailer for Trap House, and it looks like a riotous collision...
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There are books that thrill you. Books that haunt you. And then there’s Frankenstein — a thunderclap in literary history that still echoes through the canyons...
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As the long shadow of summer begins to recede, director Ned Crowley (Middle Man) returns with Killing Faith, a stark and meditative Western set against the scorched...
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As the dust begins to settle on another long, dry summer, Ned Crowley (Middle Man) returns with Killing Faith — a stark and unforgiving...
Headlines
Shudder has acquired North American, UK, and Irish rights to Paolo Strippoli’s latest horror fable, THE HOLY BOY (La valle dei sorrisi), following its...
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Horror’s full of old houses and loyal dogs, but it’s not often you get both in the same breath — and rarer still that...
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The trailer has dropped for Independent Film Company‘s Violent Ends, an upcoming Southern-set revenge thriller written and directed by John-Michael Powell (The Send-off). Set...
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There’s a long tradition of British crime films wrapping up violence in bespoke tailoring and razor-edged repartee. All the Devils Are Here, directed by...
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Have you ever wanted to know more about a surprisingly tasty range of vegetarian foods from the 90s? Or what a “veggie nugget slide”...
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All The Devils Are Here — a tightly controlled psychological crime thriller from director Barnaby Roper — is out today, arriving in cinemas and...
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A new teaser poster for Whistle, a new supernatural horror film from Corin Hardy (The Nun), has just dropped, offering a retro-tinged glimpse into this...