Reading the news nowadays, it’s hard to feel optimistic for the future. Already, we’re seeing the dystopian scenarios of science-fiction...
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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 column Gut the Punks!
Joel Potrykus is a master craftsman of bizarro cinema. Whether it’s Buzzard, where a weirdo loner builds a Freddy Kruger...
Smaller and Smaller Circles is based on the award-winning novel of the same name by F.H. Batacan. It uncovers a string of violent deaths set in the slums of Payatas, Philippines. It’s directed by Raya Martin, and was written by Raymond Lee and Ria Limjap. Several bodies of...
Darren Lynn Bousman has worked on a variety of different projects. Most people credit him as the director of Saw...
Dry Blood, from Dread Central Presents, pushes the common pains of drug withdrawal to a violent extreme, with elements of the supernatural...
Time and time again, I have stated that movie monsters aren’t nearly as scary as the demons that live within the human mind. But what if a monster planted those demons into an otherwise mild-mannered person? Wretch is a psychological “anti-found-footage” thriller that gives a first-hand look of the supernatural...
The more directors I interview, the more I understand the amount of blood, sweat and tears that go into an...
The Clovehitch Killer is a slow-burning murder mystery that peels away the facade of the all-American family living inside the Bible...
I first came across Michael Peterson’s work when my friends and I watched his debut feature Lloyd the Conqueror for the sole reason of hearing the end credit song. I wasn’t expecting to be scared sh*tless years later when I saw his sophomore film Knuckleball, a far deadly departure from...
When democracy fails, it’s not hard to believe in a “deep state” conspiracy. Whether it’s the Illuminati or Lizard People,...
The Catholic faith has always seemed scary to me. I grew up in a Protestant church— which was scary enough—...
There’s a questionable statistic making the rounds on the internet that suggests that the average person unknowingly passes at least 16 murderers on the street in their lifetime. But, as The Clovehitch Killer explores, a cold-blooded monster could be closer than you think. Maybe even living under the same roof....
