I’ve long been fascinated about how horror cinema and musical genre crossover. Music fans can discover their new favorite movie...
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Chris Aitkens is a freelance journalist from Montreal, Quebec. He started writing about music at the age of 16 for Verbicide Magazine. While interning for the Fantasia Film Festival, Chris fell in love with indie horror, and met the editors of Nightmare on Film Street. When he's not working graveyard shifts at the local talk-radio station, he is hosting his own weekly radio show on CJLO 1690AM called Sewer Spewer, writing for Bucketlist Music Reviews, and playing with his crappy punk band Gutser. He's a self-proclaimed "punk rock expert," demonstrating his know-how in his monthly column Gut the Punks!
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A soundtrack can make or break a movie. There are some iconic films out there with equally iconic soundtracks, and...
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In 2018, while visiting the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal for the world premiere of his movie LOUDER! Can’t Hear What You’re Singin’, Wimp!, Japanese filmmaker Satoshi Miki said in an interview that his dream project would be to set a movie in the aftermath of a kaiju attack and...
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At a time when the box office is oversaturated with mid-tier Hollywood superhero movies, one film out of Europe has...
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In 2017, audiences around the world were raving about a little film out of Japan called One Cut of the...
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Reading through the descriptions of the films being screened at this year’s edition of the Fantasia Festival, I found that the write-up for Glorious was incredibly vague. Then a 15-second teaser dropped a couple of weeks later, and I was even more confused about what this movie could possibly be...
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Relax, I’m From the Future is the debut feature for Luke Higginson, based on his short that premiered at TIFF back...
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It’s been argued that in the event of a global catastrophe, the human race will finally set aside their differences...
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Trying to exorcise a demon is hard enough, right? Now imagine having to deal with a whole legion! Better fill up on that holy water. The Exorcism of God takes a classic exorcism story and pushes it to its absolute limits in a showdown between the forces of good and evil....
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I’ve got another confession to make. I am not the biggest Foo Fighters fan. However, as far as rockstars go,...
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One of my favourite films from the 2021 Fantasia Film Festival is finally premiering as a Shudder exclusive. All The...
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I am fascinated by vampiric or demonic legends from cultures outside of the traditional European lore. Each mythical creature deserves its own movie, but when Hollywood fails to deliver we can always rely on independent filmmakers to take the risk and give these beasts a new cinematic life in some...