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Clash of Disciplines: Xie Miao Talks Confronting Myriad Fighting Styles in the Kinetic Spectacle of ‘The Furious’
THE FURIOUS Interview: Joe Taslim on the Secret to Shooting the Ultimate Action Rush
Kenji Tanigaki on his Lionsgate martial arts epic ‘The Furious’: “The most powerful action is still the most primal”
Eli Roth debuts trailer for new summer brain-freezing shocker ‘Ice Cream Man’
A24 Drops First Trailer For Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett Action-Horror ‘Onslaught’ Starring Adria Arjona
- Movie/TV Reviews
‘HOKUM’ Movie Review: A Meticulously Malignant Psychological Conundrum Served with Caustic Wit
Future Perfect: 10 Sci‑Fi Films That Find Hope Amid the Rise of AI and Technology
‘She Dances’ Movie Review: A Humorous, Heartwrenching Journey Through Family Connection and Intergenerational Grief
‘Sheepdog’ Movie Review: A Stark and Compassionate Look at Life After Service and the Arduous Path To Post-Traumatic Growth
‘Mimics’ Movie Review: A Polished Ventriloquist Horror Rom-Com That Struggles to Find Its Voice
- Movie/TV/Author Interviews
Clash of Disciplines: Xie Miao Talks Confronting Myriad Fighting Styles in the Kinetic Spectacle of ‘The Furious’
Grief, Folklore, and Highway Horror: CJ Leede Talks Grimy New Shocker Novel ‘Headlights’
THE FURIOUS Interview: Joe Taslim on the Secret to Shooting the Ultimate Action Rush
Kenji Tanigaki on his Lionsgate martial arts epic ‘The Furious’: “The most powerful action is still the most primal”
Beyond the shower scene: Author Leah Rowan on rewriting horror history by giving one of the genre’s most famous victims her own voice in ‘Marion’
- Music Reviews
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods’ Top Tracks of May 2026
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods’ Top Tracks of April 2026
Album Review: ‘Limbo, Please Be Good To Me’ by Crocodylus: A Frenetic, Deftly Formulated Portrait of Modern Malaise
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods’ Top Tracks of March 2026
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods’ Top Tracks of February 2026
- Music Interviews
Sydney’s Crocodylus Talk Doubling Down on Garage-Punk Chaos with New Album ‘Limbo, Please Be Good To Me’
Riding a Maximum High: Shed Seven celebrate 30 years with Triumphant ‘Shedcember X’ Winter Tour
Rick McMurray Talks The Transition from ASH to Solo Side Project BURNED AS WITCHES
Tom Clarke Talks Social Disguises: The Enemy’s Comeback Album Made on Their Own Terms
INTERVIEW: Composer Geoff Zanelli on Navigating Tonal Whiplash to Score ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’
- Features
Zack Snyder to write and direct long-gestating ‘Escape from New York’ remake
Forget the Blockbusters: 10 Essential ’80s Action Thrillers You Might Have Missed
Unearthed Frights: 10 Underrated Indie Horror Films That Deserve Your Attention
Unhinged, Unpolished, Unforgettable: 10 Wild ’70s and ’80s Cult Horror B-Movies Time Refuses to Tame
‘Behind The Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon’ Sequel Set As Scott Glosserman Confirms ‘Behind The Mask II’
- Books
Grief, Folklore, and Highway Horror: CJ Leede Talks Grimy New Shocker Novel ‘Headlights’
Beyond the shower scene: Author Leah Rowan on rewriting horror history by giving one of the genre’s most famous victims her own voice in ‘Marion’
The Best Book-to-Movie-to-Music Trios: When Stories Inspire More Than One Medium
Author Nick Cutter Talks ‘The Dorians’: His Latest Horror Vision Examining the Fantasy of Eternal Flesh
Gary Dauberman’s Coin Operated Acquires Nat Cassidy Horror Novella ‘Rest Stop’ For Feature Adaptation
- Author Interviews
Grief, Folklore, and Highway Horror: CJ Leede Talks Grimy New Shocker Novel ‘Headlights’
Beyond the shower scene: Author Leah Rowan on rewriting horror history by giving one of the genre’s most famous victims her own voice in ‘Marion’
Author Nick Cutter Talks ‘The Dorians’: His Latest Horror Vision Examining the Fantasy of Eternal Flesh
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
- 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
Author Interviews
CJ Leede has fast earned her stripes for her ability to make readers care before she makes them scared. Her knack for pairing pure,...
Box Office
The Horror Section has debuted a soft-serve nightmare of a trailer for Eli Roth‘s (Cabin Fever, Hostel, Thanksgiving) Ice Cream Man, promising a summer...
Box Office
Gary Dauberman’s Coin Operated production banner has acquired the feature film rights to Yellowjacket Summer, a horror short story by genre author Robert R....
Box Office
Kenji Tanigaki’s (Legend of Seven Monks, Enter the Fat Dragon), latest martial arts feature, The Furious, debuts in US theaters today following its acquisition...
Box Office
Following an exclusive theatrical preview rollout attached to screenings of Backrooms, A24 has today officially released the first trailer online for Adam Wingard’s upcoming...
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...
Box Office
Nearly a decade after the release of It Follows, the cult horror film that redefined the genre in 2014, lead actress Maika Monroe has...
Box Office
After more than a decade dissecting films on YouTube, Chris Stuckmann finally steps behind the camera – and the results are as gloriously unsettling...
Box Office
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...
Box Office
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....
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A decade after carving out his voice as one of YouTube’s most respected film commentators, Chris Stuckmann steps behind the camera for his feature...
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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...
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...
Box Office
Born from a single, nightmarish image — a lone raft of soldiers hunted by something sinister beneath the waves — Beast of War is...
Box Office
From its very first heartbeat — a naked young couple sprinting through the woods only to be riddled with arrows in a scene that...
Box Office
As the season turns, Bone Lake arrives in cinemas nationwide this Friday, October 3rd. Directed by Mercedes Bryce Morgan (Fixation, Spoonful of Sugar), this...