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‘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
Back in the Booth: Coventry’s The Enemy to Drop First Studio Album in Ten Years — Social Disguises
Children’s Booker Prize Launched to Spark New Generation of Readers as Reading for Pleasure Hits Record Low
- 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
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
Neil McRobert Interview: Meet the Author Turning Northern Folklore into Haunting, Heartfelt Horror with ‘GOOD BOY’
- 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
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!
Reimagining the ’80s: 10 Movies That Could Shine with a 2020s Twist
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
Books
There are books that thrill you. Books that haunt you. And then there is Frankenstein — Mary Shelley’s shock of a novel, still sparking...
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Nearly a decade after the release of It Follows, the cult horror film that redefined the genre in 2014, lead actress Maika Monroe has...
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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...
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....
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Mike Macari, executive producer behind the The Ring trilogy, is teaming up with rising director Virat Pal to bring the viral 2018 short The...
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The stunning UK poster for the Dean Israelite-helmed POWER RANGERS comes out fighting ahead of the film’s March 24th theatrical release.
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Bill Kenwright Films and Vertigo Releasing have now released the official trailer and poster for Christopher Menau’s latest film ANOTHER MOTHER’S SON, which relates...
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Hot on the heels of Rupture, a particular favourite of mine at last year’s SITGES – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, if the...
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Holy here we LEGO again, as Batman finds himself pitted against The Joker and a whole host of notorious villains in THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE...
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Since Alice Lowe’s directorial debut, Prevenge, first debuted as the curtain opener for Critic’s Week at the Venice Film Festival, it went on to screen at many a key...
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Peeling rubber like nobody’s business, creating even greater havoc, comes the first trailer for the highly anticipated Fast & Furious 8 along with some...
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With Academy Award® winner, Nick Park’s brand new prehistoric comedy adventure Early Man having officially begun production, Aardman and STUDIOCANAL have unveiled the first artefact from said project.
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Dwayne Johnson and Lin-Manuel Miranda definitely look and sound kind of excited to be in each other’s company for the upcoming animated flick, Moana, as we can...
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Ahead of its October 8th New York Film Festival debut, Entertainment One has revealed the official teaser trailer for writer/director Mike Mills’ comedy-drama, 20th Century...
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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...
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Ahead of the UK premiere of Nicolas Pesce’s critically acclaimed American gothic horror The Eyes of My Mother at this year’s BFI London Film...
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Despite breaking their Oyster card in half, two peculiar looking twins still managed to take to the Underground to visit as many commuter and tourist hotspots they could...
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In celebration of today’s release of a film that’s garnered rave reviews at pretty much every festival it’s visited thus far, The Girl With All The...
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With Jean-Claude Van Damme hitting the big screen this month in KICKBOXER: VENGEANCE (a “remake of sorts” of his 1989 smash hit) we decided...
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Whilst kids rejoice year in, year out when good ol’ Santa Claus comes bearing gifts, fans of the original Bad Santa have had to endure...
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The Smurfs are getting blue in the face, waiting impatiently for the release of their long-awaited comeback, the fully animated, all-new take on the franchise, Smurfs: The Lost...
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This Christmas, every moment will count when Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt star in director Morten Tyldum’s Sci-Fi Romance Adventure, Passengers. Ahead of the December...