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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
Viral Horror Short ‘The Bells’ to Become Feature Film with ‘The Ring’ Producer
- 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...
MUSIC
A new week brings another batch of fresh discoveries — and once again, your sharp recommendations have helped shape a Noteworthy Nods playlist well...
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After more than a decade dissecting films on YouTube, Chris Stuckmann finally steps behind the camera – and the results are as gloriously unsettling...
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IFC Entertainment Group is celebrating its biggest box office success to date with the release of Clown in a Cornfield. Directed by Eli Craig...
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“Look in the mirror, sweetheart”, the stepsisters mother barks at her as she informs her she wants to marry the prince. But this is...
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What’s a couple inches? A24 has today unveiled the first official trailer for Materialists, the much-anticipated romantic comedy from Academy Award-nominated writer-director Celine Song...
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The new trailer for David Midell‘s (The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain) The Ritual has arrived, offering a terrigying glimpse into the harrowing true story of Emma Schmidt’s...
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...
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Official Trailer Drops for ‘HOUSE OF ABRAHAM’ – Sinister Horror Thriller Starring Natasha Henstridge
Abramorama has today dropped the official trailer for House of Abraham, a chilling horror-thriller set for theatrical release this summer. Directed by Lisa Belcher in her feature...
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A24 has unveiled the first official trailer for The Smashing Machine, a gritty biographical sports drama starring Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr, the former...
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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...
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A decade after its chilling debut as one of PlayStation’s most iconic horror games, Until Dawn has been adapted into a live-action film that...
Books
Netflix has just released some first-look stills from The Thursday Murder Club, the upcoming film adaptation of Richard Osman’s bestselling novel. The film, set...
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Get ready to be hooked all over again! The iconic horror franchise I Know What You Did Last Summer is making a chilling return with a...
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David F. Sandberg’s Until Dawn – a life-on-repeat, terror-trope-smashing loop of death – hits theaters this Friday. A big-screen adaptation of the beloved 2015...
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The trailer for Unit 234, a new thriller directed by Andy Tennant (Fool’s Gold, Hitch), has just been released, offering a tense glimpse into...
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Abramorama has announced it will distribute House of Abraham, a chilling horror-thriller set for theatrical release this summer. Directed by Lisa Belcher in her...
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A24 has just dropped the official teaser trailer for Eddington, the upcoming contemporary Western black comedy directed by Ari Aster (Midsommar, Hereditary). Set to...
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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...
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Just when you thought your vacation horror story was bad, along comes I Don’t Understand You to raise the bar, leave the map, and...