History can be just as horrifying as any monster flick on the silver screen. Just turn on the news or...
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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!
Some people just don’t stay dead, especially if they need to churn out more sequels of a slasher franchise. Victor...
The dust may have settled from this year’s edition of Sundance, but we here at Nightmare on Film Street are still stoked on the world premiere of the suburban dark thriller, Summer of ’84. We were able to talk to the directors of the film and wrote a short review...
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...
Crime in Mexico is no joke. In the past 10 years, roughly 160,000 have died in drug-related violence and more than 53,000 have disappeared. The drug war has torn families apart and left children orphaned and homeless. Those that are left behind must fend for themselves, usually turning to crime...
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...
Part crime thriller, part psychological horror, Charismata is a dark, atmospheric mystery with a tinge of gallows humor as the corpses pile up to the ceiling. Rebecca Faraway is a rookie detective investigating a string of gruesome murders across London, England. Each body is found within a salt pentagram, with...
No one becomes a true horror fan without developing a taste for trashy exploitation. If you love over-the-top bad acting,...
Director Joe Lynch wears the epithet “deranged” like a badge of honor. His newest movie Mayhem is evidence of that,...
What would you do if a large sum of money randomly dropped onto your lap? Would you question where it came from? Would it solve all your problems, or would it create new ones? How do you know that it won’t change you or your relationships to those close to...