I’ve often wondered if my obsession for horror and true crime would ever come in handy in the real world....
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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!
Everyone has heard of the concept of Chekhov’s Gun. But what about Chekhov’s Bong? That means if a character in...
Welcome to Gut the Punks, a monthly dissection of genre films that have a loose connection to punk rock music and culture. This month here at Nightmare on Film Street, it’s March Break. We’re talking psychological breaks, broken bones and vacations. But for this month’s column, I’ll be talking about...
As Michael Peterson, the director of Knuckleball, once explained to me, horror and comedy aren’t as far apart as people...
Full disclosure, I’ve never been to a single rave in my life. It’s not like the opportunity never came up,...
Welcome to Gut the Punks, a monthly dissection of genre films that have a loose connection to punk rock music and culture. It’s Women in Horror Month here at Nightmare On Film Street. At first, I was stumped on which director to write about, in the realm of both horror...
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...
Welcome to Gut the Punks, a monthly dissection of genre films that have a loose connection to punk rock music and culture. Since the beginning of this column, I’ve wanted to cover anything by cult director Alex Cox, whether it’d be the toxic love story of Sid and Nancy, the...
I have been admiring Steven Kostanski’s work for years without even knowing it. All this time I was admiring the...
Fellow NOFS contributor Dave Richards described PG: Psycho Goreman to me as “E.T. meets Gwar,” which I have to say...
Today, the Trump presidency was mercifully put to an end with the inauguration of Joe Biden. The four past years have been excruciatingly long. Every morning we woke up to a new scandal and political pundits tripped over each other to decipher the latest late-night tweet. It was a time...