Chris Gore

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christian "Chris" Gore is a speaker and writer on the topic of independent film. He is writer and founder of Film Threat, a project dedicated to championing independent and underground movies. He appears weekly on the G4 television program Attack of the Show in a segment entitled DVDuesday in which he reviews the newest DVD movies released that day. Previously, he was also the host and moderator of the weekly FX series The New Movie Show in 2000, where a panel mixed between critics and celebrity guests reviewed movies in a format similar to that of Politically Incorrect.

However, after a successful several-year run of his magazine Film Threat the company went bankrupt and the magazine folded. Thanks to the advent of the internet, the magazine enjoys renewed life as an online fanzine where Chris Gore allowed freelance writers the chance to write reviews about films, network and debate cinema. Gore himself often visits the website in order to offer advice to would-be filmmakers looking to begin their careers.

His books include The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made (1999), The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, 3rd Edition (2004), and The Complete DVD Book: Designing, Producing and Marketing Your Independent Film on DVD (2005). Gore also created the defunct Wild Cartoon Kingdom magazine.

Gore also wrote and produced the film My Big Fat Independent Movie, a parody of other indie films. However, the film was poorly received by the public and the critics, receiving a very low 23% rotten rating at "Rottentomatoes.com". The film was also rejected by the Sundance film festival, the Slamdance film festival and most major film festivals. Though the film went on to play at several less notable film festivals, the movie was poorly received by festival audiences. A firestorm of internet debate soon erupted over the film's lowbrow treatment of independent film classics and, as a result, the movie suffered a backlash from die-hard independent film fans, many of which considered the film to be blasphemous toward the genre. The movie experienced a very limited theatrical run. The rights to distribute the film were eventually acquired by Anchor Bay Entertainment and it was released on DVD shortly after.