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‘SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT’ (2025) Review: A Darkly Comic Reinvention That Marries Brutality with Ethical Nuance
Countdown to SUNDANCE: CinemaChords’ Top Genre Picks That Could Steal the Show
Do You Fear What I Fear? Mike P. Nelson and Ruby Modine Talk Reimagining SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT Through Carnage, Conscience, and Courtship
‘I really enjoy playing unpleasant people… but Trevor is different’: Rowan Atkinson on finding warmth in absurdity in “Man vs Baby”
FX’s ‘Cry Wolf’ Casts Alyvia Alyn Lind in a Serpentine Tale of Family and Deception
- Movie/TV Reviews
‘SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT’ (2025) Review: A Darkly Comic Reinvention That Marries Brutality with Ethical Nuance
CinemaChords’ Best Horror Movies of 2025 (So Far): Top Horror Films You Need to See
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ Review: A Patchwork Sequel That, Sadly, Mostly Plays Like a Skippable Cutscene
‘Man Finds Tape’ Review: An Uncomfortably Convincing Found-Footage Nightmare Anchored in Digital-Age Panic
HAMNET Movie Review: A Heart-Wrenching Tragedy of Grief and Legacy, Where Loss Becomes the Measure of Everything
- Movie/TV/Author Interviews
Do You Fear What I Fear? Mike P. Nelson and Ruby Modine Talk Reimagining SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT Through Carnage, Conscience, and Courtship
‘I really enjoy playing unpleasant people… but Trevor is different’: Rowan Atkinson on finding warmth in absurdity in “Man vs Baby”
‘Man Finds Tape’ Interview: Cast Talk Confronting Fear, Faith, and the Pressures of a Watchful World
‘Man Finds Tape’ Interview: Kelsey Pribilski and William Magnuson on Terror, Belief and Life Under Surveillance
‘MAN FINDS TAPE’ Interview: Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman’ on Their Uncomfortably Convincing Found-Footage Nightmare
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Crispian Mills on Kula Shaker’s Upcoming Album ‘Wormslayer’: Navigating Creativity and Chaos in a Wired Age
GOOD HEALTH GOOD WEALTH’s Bruce Breakey Explains Philosophy Behind Narrative Debut Album ‘This Time Next Year We’ll Be Millionaires’
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
- Features
Men In Black to Suit Up Again, Bad Boys Writer Drafted for Next Mission
In Anticipation of the ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ Reboot: 8 Great Horror Remakes That Live Up to Their Source Material
Unearthed Frights: 10 Underrated Indie Horror Films That Deserve Your Attention
Bright Green Light! The Mogwai Return as ‘Gremlins 3’ Is Officially Set for 2027
Reimagining the ’80s: 10 Movies That Could Shine with a 2020s Twist
- Books
CinemaChords’ Best Horror Books of 2025 (So Far): Top Horror Novels You Need to Read
New PROJECT HAIL MARY Trailer Showcases Ryan Gosling in a Sci-Fi Adventure Brimming With Cosmic Awe and All the Feels
INTERVIEW: Celebrated Comic-Book Writer Cullen Bunn Makes Adult Novel Debut with ‘Bones of Our Stars, Blood of Our World’
Apple TV+ Reveals First Stills and Premiere Date for Season Two of “The Last Thing He Told Me”
Christina Henry on ‘The Place Where They Buried Your Heart’ — A Community Haunted Across Generations
- Author Interviews
INTERVIEW: Celebrated Comic-Book Writer Cullen Bunn Makes Adult Novel Debut with ‘Bones of Our Stars, Blood of Our World’
Christina Henry on ‘The Place Where They Buried Your Heart’ — A Community Haunted Across Generations
“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
- 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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Mike P. Nelson’s Silent Night, Deadly Night revisits a notorious cult premise with both care and cunning. The story follows Billy, a boy who...
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The holiday season is set to turn blood red this Friday, December 12, as STUDIOCANAL’s new genre label, Sixth Dimension, delivers a reinvention of...
Interviews
Rowan Atkinson returns to small-screen chaos, trading a merciless insect for an even less predictable adversary: a baby. His new Netflix mini-series, “Man vs...
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As another standout year for genre cinema comes to a close, attention naturally shifts to the Sundance Film Festival — a fixture that has...
Books
Horror, much like grief, refuses to stand still. It morphs with the times, reflecting our collective anxieties back to us in freshly monstrous forms....
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After the runaway success of 2023’s Five Nights at Freddy’s, a sequel was inevitable. And here it is: most of the original cast and...
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When night falls, every memory can be a nightmare… Brainstorm Media has dropped the first official trailer for Sleepwalker, giving audiences their latest look...
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Searchlight Pictures has today dropped the first trailer for Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, serving up a tantalising taste of what to...
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‘Man Finds Tape’ Interview: Cast Talk Confronting Fear, Faith, and the Pressures of a Watchful World
Magnet Releasing will bring Man Finds Tape — a taut, unnerving exploration of digital-age unease — to select cinemas and digital platforms on 5...
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Sony Pictures Entertainment has released a brand-new trailer for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, featuring additional footage that expands on the film’s central...
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Magnet Releasing will release Man Finds Tape – a tightly wound, digital-age descent into the uncanny – on December 5, 2025, arriving in select...
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Magnet Releasing is all set to released Man Finds Tape – an uncomfortably convincing, digital-age supernatural shocker – in select theaters and on digital...
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As first features from online creators continue to reshape the horror landscape, few debuts have generated early excitement quite like Obsession. The newly released...
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A24 has today debuted the first official trailer for Mother Mary, David Lowery’s genre-bending dive into fame, friendship, and the fractures that form beneath...
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Found-footage horror has long been a proving ground for first-time filmmakers, a genre that can feel immediate and intimate when it works, or hollow...
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To celebrate the imminent release of Mike P. Nelson’s (Wrong Turn, V/H/S/85) new take on the notorious holiday shocker Silent Night, Deadly Night, we...
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Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet made a huge splash when it hit shelves in 2020, scooping up major literary awards before being adapted for the stage....
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A24 has released the first official trailer for How to Make a Killing, the upcoming revenge thriller from Emily the Criminal director John Patton...
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The wait is almost over. Ahead of the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things,” the official Volume 1 trailer has just made its...