Nothing brings a scene together like a perfectly placed song. Add a choreographed fight and a couple buckets of fake...
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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!
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If we have learned anything from the cold open of Army of the Dead, it’s that road head usually leads to...
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Everyone will need insurance at some point in their life but the last people anyone wants to deal with are those annoying insurance salesmen. There’s a special place in Hell reserved for people like that, as well as their greedy bosses. In the twisted dark comedy Keeping Company, we get...
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Remember when conspiracy theories used to be fun? Remember when throwing out baseless claims about Bigfoot, UFOs or the fake...
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I’ve often wondered if my obsession for horror and true crime would ever come in handy in the real world....
Everyone has heard of the concept of Chekhov’s Gun. But what about Chekhov’s Bong? That means if a character in a horror movie is ripping fat tokes from a bong in one scene, there’s a strong possibility that bong will be smashed over their head in the next scene by...
Welcome to Gut the Punks, a monthly dissection of genre films that have a loose connection to punk rock music...
As Michael Peterson, the director of Knuckleball, once explained to me, horror and comedy aren’t as far apart as people...
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Full disclosure, I’ve never been to a single rave in my life. It’s not like the opportunity never came up, I just wasn’t interested in EDM or the designer drugs, at least not when raves were all the rage about ten years ago. But I have heard plenty of stories...
Welcome to Gut the Punks, a monthly dissection of genre films that have a loose connection to punk rock music...
When I think about Mardi Gras, I think about the marching parades in the streets of New Orleans, and how...
Every time I’ve sat down to watch the psychedelic cinematography of Alejandro Jodorowsky, it has been a life-changing experience. From the first time I watched the Holy Mountain by a complete fluke, I have been blown away by his keen eye for color and framing, not to mention his narratives...
