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- News
WARDRIVER Trailer: Dane DeHaan Stars in Rebecca Thomas’ High-Stakes Cyber-Heist Thriller
WORLDBREAKER INTERVIEW: Brad Anderson Talks Female Empowerment in a Quasi-Future World Overrun by Monsters
‘Send Help’ Movie Review: Sam Raimi Turns Survival Into a Brutally Wicked Battle of Wits
‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ Movie Review: An Alarmingly Disarming Madcap Meditation on Algorithmic Overload
James Walsh Talks New Solo Album ‘It’s All Happening’ and 25th Anniversary of Starsailor’s Debut ‘Love Is Here’
- Movie/TV Reviews
‘Send Help’ Movie Review: Sam Raimi Turns Survival Into a Brutally Wicked Battle of Wits
PRIMATE Movie Review: A Ferocious, Practically Perfect Creature Feature
DOOBA DOOBA Movie Review: A Creepy, Ambitious Slice of Experimental Micro-Budget Horror
WE BURY THE DEAD Movie Review: A Poignant Apocalyptic Tale Wrought from Personal Loss
Future Perfect: 10 Sci‑Fi Films That Find Hope Amid the Rise of AI and Technology
- Movie/TV/Author Interviews
WORLDBREAKER INTERVIEW: Brad Anderson Talks Female Empowerment in a Quasi-Future World Overrun by Monsters
Johannes Roberts on PRIMATE: Creature Features, Confined Spaces, and the Art of Escalating Tension
DOOBA DOOBA: Ehrland Hollingsworth and Amna Vegha Talk the Horror of Complicity Through Analog Footage
INTERVIEW: Dominic Fumusa and Matt Dallas Reflect on Sheepdog’s Exploration of Life After Combat
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple — Nia DaCosta on Steering the Rage into Darker, Weirder Human Territory
- Music Reviews
Brand-New Bangers: Noteworthy Nods’ Top Tracks of January 2026
Album Review: ‘Wasted on Youth’ by The Molotovs — An Uncompromising Debut Brimming with Bravado, Breadth, and Boundless Momentum
Album Review: Kula Shaker – Wormslayer: a feisty, fearless return to psychedelic form
Album Review: ‘Fearless Nature’ by Kid Kapichi — An Eclectic, Introspective Statement Steeped in Darkness, Punctuated by Resolve
CinemaChords’ Best Singles of the Year 2025
- Music Interviews
James Walsh Talks New Solo Album ‘It’s All Happening’ and 25th Anniversary of Starsailor’s Debut ‘Love Is Here’
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
- Features
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
- Books
Corey Hawkins Joins Mila Kunis in Thriller Adaptation of Tracy Sierra’s NIGHTWATCHING
The Housemaid’s Secret: Lionsgate Eyes 2026 Start for Sequel with Sweeney and Morrone in Talks to Return
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
- 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
Box Office
Voltage Pictures releases the sci-fi action thriller Worldbreaker today, January 30, a tense survival story in which a young woman is forced to face...
Box Office
Send Help marks a welcome return to pitch-black, R-rated storytelling from Sam Raimi. Stripped of superhero capes and chainsaw-laden spectacle, the director of The...
Box Office
As doomscrolling, algorithmic outrage and digital burnout have come to define modern life, it was only a matter of time before Gore Verbinski, a...
MUSIC
It’s been a minute, but Noteworthy Nods is back, this time slightly revamped for 2026. Moving forward, the series will now run as a...
Books
Mila Kunis (Wake Up Dead Man, Black Swan) will star in the upcoming film adaptation of Tracy Sierra’s claustrophobic debut novel Nightwatching, with Corey...
Box Office
Contained, claustrophobic thrillers have long been a recurring feature of Johannes Roberts’ (47 Meters Down, Storage 24) work, with pressure, proximity, and survival often...
Box Office
Primate, Johannes Roberts’ latest outing, is a lean, unpretentious monster flick: No heavy-handed allegory, no metaphorical monsters, just pure, thrilling popcorn entertainment. Refreshingly confident...
Music Interviews
Starsailor frontman James Walsh releases his new solo album, It’s All Happening, this Friday, 30 January, continuing the steady growth of his solo career...
Cult Cinema
As we navigate an era of rapid technological advancement, with artificial intelligence becoming ever more sophisticated and prominent in our daily lives, it’s understandable...
Box Office
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....
Box Office
Paramount has released a second behind-the-scenes featurette for Primate, titled “Silence,” offering a closer look at Johannes Roberts’ survival thriller through the perspective of Academy...
Box Office
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...
Box Office
Charlie Polinger’s The Plague is a potent, unnerving look at the psychology of growing up, where social pressure and emerging cruelty shape the way...
Headlines
After more than a decade away from Conan Doyle’s universe, Guy Ritchie returns to Baker Street with “Young Sherlock”, a new Prime Video series...
Box Office
Voltage Pictures has released the official trailer for the sci-fi action thriller Worldbreaker, a tense story of survival and the war a young woman...
Box Office
The vampire feature Illomen has completed production in Los Angeles. Directed and co-written by Nathalia Pizarro, the film centres on a young widow whose...
Box Office
Universal has today debuted the official trailer for Hamlet, a contemporary reimagining of William Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy, with Riz Ahmed stepping into the title...
Box Office
Luc Besson (The Professional, Anna), returns to gothic storytelling with his latest project, Dracula. Caleb Landry Jones takes on the title role, joined by...
