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Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods 2025 – Batch #26
‘Man Finds Tape’ Trailer Teases Disquieting Docu-Realistic Horror, Rooted in Small-Town Secrets
‘IF YOU SEE SOMETHING’ Review: A Nuanced Meditation on Identity, Moral Responsibility, and the Struggle to Navigate a World That Is at Once Welcoming and Alienating
‘Scream 7’ Trailer: Kevin Williamson Returns to Direct as Ghostface Targets Sidney’s Daughter
“Stranger Things” Season 5 Trailer: The Stakes Have Been Turned Completely Upside Down in the Final Showdown
- Movie/TV Reviews
‘IF YOU SEE SOMETHING’ Review: A Nuanced Meditation on Identity, Moral Responsibility, and the Struggle to Navigate a World That Is at Once Welcoming and Alienating
‘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
- Movie/TV/Author Interviews
Alexandra Shipp and Nick Stahl on Revenge Thriller ‘Violent Ends’: Love, Loyalty and the Cost of Violence
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
- Music Reviews
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods 2025 – Batch #26
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
- 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’
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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
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
Headlines
The wait is finally over — the official trailer for “Stranger Things” Season 5 is here, and things are about to get darker than...
Headlines
After years of speculation, whispers, and wild fan theories, Oasis finally came back to rock stadiums across the world with their Live ’25 Tour...
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,...
MUSIC
Another Friday, another round of Noteworthy Nods – your go-to source for this week’s best indie singles. We’ve scoured the streaming platforms and sifted...
Box Office
This Friday, October 31, Violent Ends — a hard-hitting, Southern-set revenge thriller from writer-director John-Michael Powell (The Send-off) — arrives in cinemas, courtesy of...
Box Office
Universal Pictures has moved the release date of Other Mommy, its forthcoming supernatural horror from Atomic Monster, from 8 May to 9 October 2026....
Headlines
The teaser for Appofeniacs has landed today, offering a first look at a hallucinatory descent into deepfake-fuelled paranoia just ahead of its North American...
Headlines
Kula Shaker have revealed they will release their eighth studio album, Wormslayer, on 30 January 2026, and they’ve marked the announcement with a singular...
Headlines
Forget porcelain innocence — the Dolly in Rod Blackhurst’s new horror vision is no plaything. Born of desperation, shaped in shadows, she’s now unmasked...
Box Office
The official trailer for Coyotes marks the return of Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters), offering a savage meditation on survival, where suburban complacency collides with...
Box Office
David F. Sandberg Takes the Keys to 112 Ocean Avenue to Give The Amityville Horror a Modern Makeover
Fresh from dragging audiences through the jump-scare gauntlet of Until Dawn of Until Dawn and conjuring up demons with Annabelle: Creation and Lights Out,...
Box Office
Eli Roth’s new production banner, The Horror Section, is coming out of the gate with a bang with its debut feature, Jimmy and Stiggs...
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Bryan Fuller is no stranger to beautifully twisted stories — “Hannibal”, “Pushing Daisies”, and “American Gods” all proved he can take strange, dark material...
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Pamela Anderson and Guy Pearce are set to star in Queen of the Falls, an indie feature based on a play by James Graham....
Headlines
Nearly four decades after The Smiths called it quits, Morrissey is finally cashing out—offering his 50% stake in the legendary Manchester band to the...
Headlines
“Knight Rider.” Few titles can instantly conjure up such a pure 1980s sugar rush: neon-lit highways, David Hasselhoff’s perm bouncing in the California breeze,...
Cult Cinema
It looks like Magic is about to cast its spell on a new generation. Lionsgate is rebooting the 1978 cult horror, the one that...
Box Office
Dark Sky Films and sister production and distribution company Watermelon Pictures are teaming up to bring a fresh jolt of gothic horror to North...
Box Office
After turning the world of mystery cinema on its head with Knives Out (2019) and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), Academy Award-nominated...
Headlines
This September, a trailblazing story about courage, systemic resistance, and female empowerment takes center stage at TIFF. Out Standing, the latest offering from Canada’s...
Author Interviews
When Clay McLeod Chapman flips the script on reality, terror and humor are never far behind — and his new collection, Acquired Taste (out...
Box Office
Inground — a brand-new horror-thriller set to blur the lines between family drama and full-on terror — will send John Cho (Searching, Star Trek)...