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CinemaChords’ Best Singles of the Year 2025
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‘SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT’ (2025) Review: A Darkly Comic Reinvention That Marries Brutality with Ethical Nuance
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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
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2026 Horror Book Releases: CinemaChords’ Most Anticipated Titles for the First Half of the Year
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Chilling Reads Ahead: CinemaChords’ Top 10 Most Anticipated Horror Novels for 2025
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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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A new poster and trailer have landed for Send Help, the upcoming psychological thriller from 20th Century Studios – and it marks a very...
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In a bold cinematic reimagining of Stephen King‘s 1982 novel, The Running Man is set to return to the big screen, this time under...
Author Interviews
Author Interview: The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale – Genre-Bending Stories and Timeless Fears
Few writers navigate the boundaries of genre – or deliberately dismantle them – with quite the same ease as Joe R. Lansdale. Best known...
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...
Author Interviews
Neil McRobert is no stranger to the macabre. As a writer, academic, and host of the Talking Scared podcast, he has spent years in...
Author Interviews
Today, October 7th, marks the return of one of horror fiction’s most distinctive and unsettling voices, as Brian Asman’s cult hit Man, F*ck This...
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Born from a single, nightmarish image — a lone raft of soldiers hunted by something sinister beneath the waves — Beast of War is...
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From its very first heartbeat — a naked young couple sprinting through the woods only to be riddled with arrows in a scene that...
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As the season turns, Bone Lake arrives in cinemas nationwide this Friday, October 3rd. Directed by Mercedes Bryce Morgan (Fixation, Spoonful of Sugar), this...
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Bleecker Street drops Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s (Fixation, Spoonful of Sugar) Bone Lake into theaters nationwide this Friday, October 3rd — a steamy, twisted chiller...
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There are books that thrill you. Books that haunt you. And then there’s Frankenstein — a thunderclap in literary history that still echoes through the canyons...
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As the long shadow of summer begins to recede, director Ned Crowley (Middle Man) returns with Killing Faith, a stark and meditative Western set against the scorched...
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As the dust begins to settle on another long, dry summer, Ned Crowley (Middle Man) returns with Killing Faith — a stark and unforgiving...
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Shudder has acquired North American, UK, and Irish rights to Paolo Strippoli’s latest horror fable, THE HOLY BOY (La valle dei sorrisi), following its...
Author Interviews
Tatiana Schlote-Bonne is rapidly staking her claim as one of contemporary horror’s most compelling voices. Her writing cuts deep with sharp psychological insight and...
Author Interviews
In the horror world, Philip Fracassi has already built a reputation for delivering deeply human stories that aren’t afraid to push into the grotesque,...
Author Interviews
Michael Wehunt has emerged as a distinctive voice in contemporary horror, known for short fiction that has appeared in some of the genre’s most...