Lloyd Kaufman is a pioneer of independent cinema. For more than 45 years, his B-movie studio Troma Entertainment has been...
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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!
It’s been 24 years since the release of Tromeo and Juliet (and it still blows my mind that James Gunn...
I remember interning at Fantasia three years ago and attending the Frontieres Market, a place for filmmakers to pitch ideas and rake in funding for their next project. While walking around the crowded room aimlessly, I was handed a postcard, advertising a movie called Slaxx, with the subtitle “An ass...
Since the beginning of Fantasia 2020, I’ve been telling everyone I know about Fried Barry, a wild and colorful film...
This month at Nightmare On Film Street is Hot As Hell. We’re talking all about that warm place down in...
Guess who’s coming to dinner? It’s not Sidney Poitier. No, it’s some no-good punk with a weird haircut, who will try to hook up with your mom and light your front lawn on fire. At least his presence offers some excitement in this dull Midwest suburb. Written and directed by...
Have you ever watched a Godzilla movie and wondered what he would taste like? Probably very gamey and radiated. But...
I’m a huge advocate of watching movies while under the influence. I believe occasionally taking psychedelic drugs before a viewing...
Would you consider yourself a good person? Like, if you were to suddenly die today and it turned out the Biblical doctrine was true all along, where do you think you will end up? Heaven or Hell? Did you spend your life helping others, or indulging in your vices? Seeing...
The religious dark drama Nothing But the Blood – written and directed by Daniel Tucker—depicts a fundamentalist takeover of a...
July is Greedy Guts month here at Nightmare On Film Street, when writers are given carte blanche to write about...
Do you miss traveling after months of isolation? Don’t you just wish you could close your eyes, think of a beautiful natural paradise, and travel there with the power of your mind? Then you might envy the abilities of the female lead in the psychological thriller Parallax, though such power...