Welcome to Gut the Punks, a monthly dissection of genre films that have a loose connection to punk rock music...
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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!
I have been admiring Steven Kostanski’s work for years without even knowing it. All this time I was admiring the...
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Fellow NOFS contributor Dave Richards described PG: Psycho Goreman to me as “E.T. meets Gwar,” which I have to say is pretty accurate. From the mad mind of Canadian shlockmeister Steven Kostanski (The Void, Leprechaun Returns) comes a heartwarming tale about family and intergalactic warlords, courtesy of the good people...
Today, the Trump presidency was mercifully put to an end with the inauguration of Joe Biden. The four past years...
This month at Nightmare On Film Street, we’re nearing the End of Days. Like many tinfoil hat conspiracy nuts, I’ve...
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The worldwide release of Girl With No Mouth could not come at a better time for Nightmare On Film Street, as we celebrate the End of Days this month. A Turkish adventure set in a post-apocalyptic countryside, it’s directed by Can Evrenol, who also directed such films as Baskin, Housewife,...
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I was surprised to read that Fangoria would be remaking Stuart Gordon’s 1995 direct-to-video classic Castle Freak. I couldn’t imagine...
So you’ve somehow survived the apocalypse. Capitalism has collapsed, and all that money you had in your savings account is...
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Another Halloween has come and gone, though the festivities this year were a lot different compared to previous years, for obvious reasons. Halloween means different things to different people. For the kids, it means getting lots of candy. For those who have outgrown Halloween, it’s still an excuse to party...
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It took millions of years of evolution for homo sapiens to become the dominant species. But if other animal species...
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I’d always like to think that if I ever had to fight, like in a life or death situation, that...
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A lot of people say they smoke pot to relax. But what if every time you lit up a fat doob of the devil’s lettuce, you saw ghosts? I don’t think I’d ever be able to relax again. New Zealand horror comedy DEAD follows a stoner who has gotten used...
