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- News
‘Fackham Hall’ First Trailer Parodies the Pomp and Pretence of the British Period Drama
Oday Rasheed and Jess Jacobs Interview: Connection in a World of Welcome and Exclusion in ‘If You See Something’
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
- 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
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
“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
- 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
Box Office
With its stately homes, tightly laced corsets and barely concealed class tensions, the British period drama has long been ripe for parody. Fackham Hall,...
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
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...
Box Office
When Iraqi filmmaker Oday Rasheed set out to make If You See Something, he wanted to explore what he calls “the ultimate struggle between...
MUSIC
A new week brings another batch of fresh discoveries — and once again, your sharp recommendations have helped shape a Noteworthy Nods playlist well...
Cinema
Synopsis: Finding herself the victim of a violent monster attack, Jane launches a vigilante campaign to hunt the beast that tried to kill her....
Headlines
BAFTA today revealed that this year’s Leading Actress nominee (for her role in House of Gucci), Lady Gaga, will be introducing this year’s EE...
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...
Box Office
Pursuant to last week’s cryptic “Nippon Speed Line bullet train” viral ad campaign which promised “a new way to travel: tranquil, comfortable, and fast,”...
MOVIES
Sony Pictures just debuted the first terrifying trailer for Iris K. Shim‘s (The House of Suh) supernatural shocker UMMA, which delivers a fusion of...
Headlines
First news of the direct spin-off prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road, FURIOSA, having started production came way back in 2010, with reports confirming...
MOVIES
DON’T LOOK BACK! LOOK UP! Netflix just debuted the anxiously awaited trailer for its soon-to-be-released sci-fi extravaganza, THE ADAM PROJECT which, despite transporting Ryan...
MOVIES
Ahead of its UK and Ireland release, MUBI has revealed the new UK trailer and poster for Joachim Trier‘s wistful and subversive romantic drama...
Headlines
According to The Ankler, whilst Warner Bros. has still not given the go-ahead to a second Beetlejuice film, the project certainly sounds as though...
MOVIES
After being delayed from an initial July 2020 release date, primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Morbius, dubbed as one of the most compelling...
MOVIES
A viral ad campaign promising “a new way to travel: tranquil, comfortable, and fast” suddenly appeared online yesterday which appears to actually be hinting...
Headlines
Just when I thought it was safe to assume my kids had outgrown all the Beyblade paraphernalia, it’s looking like the popular toy franchise...
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...
Killer Chords
Shudder has today revealed the trailer and premiere date for the psychological horror film The Twin, the English-language debut feature from Finnish filmmaker Taneli...
Killer Chords
Hellbender, the latest horror film from the upstate New York self-taught filmmaking family, The Adams is all set to premiere exclusively on Shudder tomorrow,...
Box Office
RLJE Films and Shudder have just revealed the first official trailer and poster (below) for cosmic shocker Offseason, Mickey Keating‘s much-anticipated follow-up to 2017’s...
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...