In 2018, while visiting the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal for the world premiere of his movie LOUDER! Can’t Hear...
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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!
At a time when the box office is oversaturated with mid-tier Hollywood superhero movies, one film out of Europe has...
In 2017, audiences around the world were raving about a little film out of Japan called One Cut of the Dead. At first glance, the movie appeared to be yet another grainy micro-budget zombie flick, so viewers entered the film with low expectations. But those who stuck around til the...
Reading through the descriptions of the films being screened at this year’s edition of the Fantasia Festival, I found that...
Relax, I’m From the Future is the debut feature for Luke Higginson, based on his short that premiered at TIFF back...
It’s been argued that in the event of a global catastrophe, the human race will finally set aside their differences and come together for the sake of survival (though that wasn’t necessarily the case when dealing with a global pandemic). But what if we were confronted by something on an...
Trying to exorcise a demon is hard enough, right? Now imagine having to deal with a whole legion! Better fill...
I’ve got another confession to make. I am not the biggest Foo Fighters fan. However, as far as rockstars go,...
One of my favourite films from the 2021 Fantasia Film Festival is finally premiering as a Shudder exclusive. All The Moons (or in Basque, Ilargi Guztiak) is a dramatic fairy tale set in Spain near the end of the 19th century. It is the sophomore feature from Spanish director Igor...
I am fascinated by vampiric or demonic legends from cultures outside of the traditional European lore. Each mythical creature deserves...
Spanish cult film Arrebato (“Rapture” in English) is re-emerging from the sands of time, thanks to a new 4K restoration from Altered...
The nightmare begins again with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, a new cinematic adaptation of the popular video game series. Unlike the previous loosely-based action-packed Resident Evil franchise from Paul W. S. Anderson, Welcome to Racoon City is an origin story that injects more elements of horror into its atmosphere and...