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CinemaChords’ Best Singles of the Year 2025
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Future Perfect: 10 Sci‑Fi Films That Find Hope Amid the Rise of AI and Technology
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Future Perfect: 10 Sci‑Fi Films That Find Hope Amid the Rise of AI and Technology
CinemaChords’ Best Horror Movies of 2025: Top Horror Films You Need to See
‘THE PLAGUE’ Review: A Harrowingly Poignant Exploration of the Cruelties and Contradictions of Early Adolescence
‘SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT’ (2025) Review: A Darkly Comic Reinvention That Marries Brutality with Ethical Nuance
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ Review: A Patchwork Sequel That, Sadly, Mostly Plays Like a Skippable Cutscene
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‘THE PLAGUE’ Interview: Everett Blunck and Kayo Martin on the Cruel Realities of Growing Up
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
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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
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Future Perfect: 10 Sci‑Fi Films That Find Hope Amid the Rise of AI and Technology
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
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2026 Horror Book Releases: CinemaChords’ Most Anticipated Titles for the First Half of the Year
CinemaChords’ Best Horror Books of 2025: 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
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Apple TV+ Reveals First Stills and Premiere Date for Season Two of “The Last Thing He Told Me”
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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
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‘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
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Books
The first half of 2026 promises a striking range of horror, from taut psychological thrillers and gothic mysteries to inventive speculative nightmares. Some stories...
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Horror has always been a shape-shifter, changing with the times to throw our darkest fears back at us in clever, unsettling ways. In 2025,...
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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End-of-year lists are rarely about consensus and more about habit. Some of these songs hit instantly; others revealed their qualities over time. In every...
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Independent Film Company is all set to release writer-director Charlie Polinger’s debut feature, The Plague, in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on...
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Independent Film Company and Shudder are teaming up to unleash a new slice of survival horror with River, the feature debut from filmmaker Joshua...
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The lights are flickering back on at Freddy Fazbear’s once again. Universal and Blumhouse have dropped a brand-new trailer for Five Nights at Freddy’s...
Author Interviews
Christina Henry on ‘The Place Where They Buried Your Heart’ — A Community Haunted Across Generations
Chicago-born author Christina Henry has long mastered the art of turning the familiar inside out, revealing the darkness that hides in plain sight. Known...
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Magnet Releasing has announced the release date and dropped the trailer for Man Finds Tape, a supernatural horror film marking the feature debut of...
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“Hello, Sidney. Did you miss me?” The ghostly voice that defined a generation is back. Paramount Pictures has debuted the highly anticipated trailer for...
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The wait is finally over — the official trailer for “Stranger Things” Season 5 is here, and things are about to get darker than...
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Shudder will exclusively stream Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Reflet dans un diamant mort), the latest from Belgian filmmaking duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno...
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....
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...
Headlines
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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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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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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The holiday season is set to turn blood red as STUDIOCANAL’s new genre label, Sixth Dimension, today dropped the international red band trailer for...
Author Interviews
“I wanted to explore what it means to be watched, and what it means to watch others,” muses Joey Batey – a sentiment that...
Author Interviews
Lovecraftian horror meets the inventive imagination of Shirley Jackson Award-winner Nathan Ballingrud in his latest novel, Cathedral of the Drowned. A hallucinatory journey into...
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Paramount has dropped the first trailer for Primate, the latest from Johannes Roberts, a filmmaker who’s carved out a niche in high-stakes, anxiety-driven horror....
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Hot on the heels of Longlegs and his Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, director Osgood Perkins is back with another descent into psychological horror....