Comedian Chris Rock once said “if you haven’t contemplated murder, you ain’t been in love.” That quote will give you...
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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!
It’s been 23 years since Tales From the Hood came out and yet, it’s still relevant as ever. The horror...
I was talking with a fellow member of the press the other day on what qualifies as an opening movie for the Fantasia Film Festival. Based on last year’s opening film, The Villainess, my guess is that it would have to be both high-adrenaline and visually stunning. In that sense,...
If you were given the chance to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, how much would you be willing...
History can be just as horrifying as any monster flick on the silver screen. Just turn on the news or...
Some people just don’t stay dead, especially if they need to churn out more sequels of a slasher franchise. Victor Crowley has joined the ranks of Jason Voorhees and Freddy Kruger: (ugly) serial killers who refuse to die no matter how many times they’re decapitated or grinded into a pulp....
The dust may have settled from this year’s edition of Sundance, but we here at Nightmare on Film Street are...
I feel a certain pride when talking about directors from Quebec; Xavier Dolan and Denis Villeneuve are a few names...
Going to parties can be a bit distressing; the pressure to interact with strangers and to waste your money on alcohol (or other substances) is enough to make you instead spend your weekend in bed and binge-watch the same shows you’ve watched a million times. Now imagine if some maniac...
Crime in Mexico is no joke. In the past 10 years, roughly 160,000 have died in drug-related violence and more...
The subgenre of zombie horror has been beaten to death, then revived, only to be beaten to death once more....
If you ever worked in an office, then you know that feeling: Sitting at a desk, closed off in a cubicle, realizing you’re wasting your life for a company that doesn’t care about you and that you’ve become everything you hated as a teenager. The only thing that gets you...
