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The Boy With A Thorn In His Side is a powerful and intricate short film. Packed into just over four minutes of time, this...
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Gary Dauberman’s Coin Operated Acquires Nat Cassidy Horror Novella ‘Rest Stop’ For Feature Adaptation
Rafe Spall-Led Sherlock Holmes Series “The Death Of Sherlock Holmes” Rolls Cameras In Europe
Sara van Os Talks ‘Decomposition Book,’ Necrotic Narratives, and the Capacity of Stories for Human Connection
Tuning Into Terror: Author TJ Payne on Re-wiring Haunted House Tropes into a Clinical Nightmare
Author Nat Cassidy on Crafting a Travelogue of Terror with His Debut Anthology “I Know A Place”
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Sara van Os Talks ‘Decomposition Book,’ Necrotic Narratives, and the Capacity of Stories for Human Connection
Tuning Into Terror: Author TJ Payne on Re-wiring Haunted House Tropes into a Clinical Nightmare
Author Nat Cassidy on Crafting a Travelogue of Terror with His Debut Anthology “I Know A Place”
Aimee Pokwatka Talks New Novel ‘Accumulation’: haunted homes, childhood terrors, and everyday unease
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Cult Cinema
Horror has a way of surprising even the most seasoned fans. Beyond the familiar blockbusters, indie films are constantly redefining the genre, taking risks...
Cult Cinema
Unhinged, Unpolished, Unforgettable: 10 Wild ’70s and ’80s Cult Horror B-Movies Time Refuses to Tame
In the gloriously chaotic world of ’70s and ’80s horror cinema, low budgets, wacky premises, and unpolished execution were not bugs – they were...
Box Office
It’s hard to believe that it’s been all of two decades since Scott Glosserman’s (The Truth Below) savagely satirical shockumentary Behind the Mask: The...
Headlines
WTFilms is developing They Call Him Zorro, a horror-action reinterpretation of the iconic masked vigilante, with genre filmmaker Joe Begos attached to write, direct...
Author Interviews
Author Sara van Os is a Mexican-American, self-professed decomposition nerd who has, since college, been working in hospitality while diligently collecting stories of decidedly...
Features
The Goonies managed to personify everything you wanted to be able to do as a child, but it wasn’t possible and even if it...
Features
Total Recall is still – to this day – one of the best sci-fi movies ever made. Why? Because it is based on a...
Features
If I had a choice, I would round up all musicals, especially mainstream musicals, and pop them in the guilty pleasures pot. I’d leave...
Features
It been over 35 years since A New Hope stunned audiences worldwide and cinema has changed a lot since then. Incidentally, so have the...
Short Film
Welcome to the very first of (hopefully) many short film showcases here on Cinema Chords, and we’re kick things of in humungous proportions, as...
Features
There are so many films we all dream will get the sequel treatment but then there are so many we just can’t for a...
Cult Cinema
Road movies are certainly the most simplistic of movies. Generally appealing to a certain type of film lover, movies with long stretches of road...
Features
You don’t get ranked fifth on the American Films Institute’s ten greatest epic films for nothing, but is Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece simply an ‘epic’...
Features
Their name is Lumiére, and they have just invented what will become one of the most revolutionary technological inventions of the 20th century –...