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!
I’ve long been fascinated about how horror cinema and musical genre crossover. Music fans can discover their new favorite movie when their favorite artist references the film in their lyrics, and film fans can discover their new favorite artist when their music is featured in their favorite movie’s soundtrack. I...
At a time when the box office is oversaturated with mid-tier Hollywood superhero movies, one film out of Europe has done the impossible by making me fall in love with a group of misfits with superpowers. Freaks Out is the sophomore feature from Italian director Gabriele Mainetti and writer Nicola...
Relax, I’m From the Future is the debut feature for Luke Higginson, based on his short that premiered at TIFF back in 2013. In the short, a man is about to commit suicide, but is interrupted by someone claiming to be from the future. This idea of someone bumbling to change...
I’ve got another confession to make. I am not the biggest Foo Fighters fan. However, as far as rockstars go, I have nothing but admiration for Dave Grohl and his bandmates. So of course, when I heard that the Foo Fighters would star in their own feature-length horror-comedy Studio 666,...