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Chris Alexander is a Canadian magazine editor, film critic, director, musician, composer, teacher and writer. Alexander was a member of the Toronto Film Critics Association and was the editor-in-chief of Fangoria, an editor of American film website ComingSoon.net and a writer for the daily newspaper Metro News.

Career

In 2010 Alexander became the editor-in-chief of New York City based horror film magazine Fangoria , a position he held until September 2015, when he stepped down in favor of pursuing his directorial and music career. Alexander also stated that he intended to continue to contribute editorial content but that he also intended to focus on Delirium, a Full Moon Features magazine he launched with filmmaker Charles Band.

Alexander was previously a publicist with Warner Bros. Canada and later, a writer and columnist for Rue Morgue and also the editor and publisher of the official magazine for the rock band Kiss. Alexander has also worked as a radio personality for AM 640 on The John Oakley Show from 2004 to 2009 and for Rue Morgue Radio from 2004 to 2007. He has composed music for several horror films and productions such as the radio drama series Fangoria's Dreadtime Stories. In 2006, Alexander participated in the Raging Boll stunt in Vancouver, boxing genre filmmaker Uwe Boll.

His 2012 debut film Blood for Irina won the Best Experimental Feature Film award at the 2013 PollyGrind Film Festival. The film’s fluid, hypnotic style, self-composed electronic music and focus on image and emotion as opposed to plot and dialogue remains a hallmark of all of Alexander’s film work.

Alexander is also the co-founder of Toronto-based horror and cult film convention Horror-Rama.

Alexander is the creator and instructor of horror movie history course Fear on Film, offered through Canada’s Sheridan College and New York based learning centre Morbid Anatomy.

His 4th feature film (and third in the “Irina” cycle) Blood Dynasty was released to streaming and VOD in 2017. The film was later licensed by Darkside Releasing with a special edition Blu-ray release planned for 2022.

Alexander's 5th film was Space Vampire, an experimental, psychological and psychedelic “fever dream” with science fiction and horror overtones, shot using 16mm film, toy cameras and digital devices. Produced by Alexander and Ali Chappell The film was completed in 2020 and was released in 2021 (alongside his 7th feature film Girl With a Straight Razor) by Darkside Releasing.

Alexander created the Delirium Films label for Full Moon, which yielded his feature films It Knows You’re Alone, Scream of the Blind Dead and Parasite Lady.

Alexander was one of the directors attached to Full Moon's Deadly Ten project. Production began on Necropolis:Legion starring Augie Duke, Lynn Lowry and Canadian actress Ali Chappell. in June 2019 with a release date set for November 29, 2019 on the Full Moon Features streaming channel and on December 2, 2019 on Amazon Prime. The film was later re-released in a longer "director's cut" on May 8, 2020 on Amazon Prime and other digital platforms with a DVD release that followed in October, 2020.

Bibliography

• Chris Alexander's Blood Spattered Book (2010)
• Corman/Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964 (2023)
• Art! Trash! Terror!: Adventures in Strange Cinema (2024)

Discography

• Music for Parasites (2008)
• Music for Murder (2015)
• Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (2017)
• They Drink Your Blood (2018)
• Body Double (2020)

Film scores

• Blood for Irina (2012)
• Devil's Mile (2013)
• Queen of Blood (2014)
• She Who Must Burn (2015)
• Female Werewolf (2015)
• Blood Dynasty (2017)
• Necropolis: Legion (additional music, 2020)
• Space Vampire (2020)
• It Knows You’re Alone (2021)
• Girl With a Straight Razor (2021)
• Scream of the Blind Dead (2021)
• Parasite Lady (2023)

Filmography

• Blood for Irina (2012)
• Queen of Blood (2014)
• Female Werewolf (2015)
• Blood Dynasty (2017)
• When Romero Met Del Toro (2017)
• Space Vampire (2020)
• Necropolis: Legion (2020)
• It Knows You’re Alone (2021)
• Girl With a Straight Razor (2021)
• Scream of the Blind Dead (2021)
• Parasite Lady (2023)

Interviews

• Why Horror? (2014, as himself)

References

1. Kurek, Dominik (25 October 2012). "NYC-based Fangoria editor produces horror flick". Oakville Beaver. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
2. ^ "Announcement: A Farewell from FANGORIA Editor Chris Alexander…". Fangoria. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
3. Barton, Steve (9 January 2014). "Full Moon in a State of Delirium This February". Dread Central. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
4. Turek, Ryan (5 February 2010). "EXCL: Meet the New Editor of Fangoria Magazine". Shock Till You Drop. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
5. "RAGING BOLL CHALLENGERS ANNOUNCED (archived)". Film Threat. 23 August 2006. Archived from the original on 28 July 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
6. ^ "Interview: Chris Alexander (Blood For Irina, Fangoria)". HorrorNews.net. 5 November 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
7. Baker, Chris (December 2006). "Raging Boll". Wired. Vol. 14, no. 12. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
8. "Important Announcement from Horror-Rama!". Archived from the original on 15 May 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
9. Fear film.ca
10. "First Photos from Chris Alexander's SPACE VAMPIRE". Horror Society. 11 December 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
11. "Full Moon Features to Live-Stream the Making of 10 Horror Movies". Collider. 19 April 2019.
12. "Welcome to the DEADLY 10!". deadlyten.com. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
13. Burkart, Gregory (2 September 2008). "Chris Alexander & Carrie Eliza: Music for Parasites". Fearnet. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
14. Burkart, Gregory. "Exclusive Interview: Chris Alexander Talks 'Blood for Irina'". Fearnet. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
15. Wilson, Staci Layne. "Joseph O'Brien Talks Walking the Devil's Mile". Dread Central. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
16. "Film Review: 'She Who Must Burn'". Variety. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
17. Hallock, Chris. "Blood for Irina (Film Review)". Diabolique Magazine. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
18. Miller, Mark L. (8 July 2013). "Review: BLOOD FOR IRINA (2013)". Ain't It Cool News. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
19. "Film Review: Blood For Irina (2012)". HorrorNews.net. 30 January 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
20. Turek, Ryan (28 August 2013). "Chris Alexander Preps Queen of Blood". Shock Till You Drop. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
21. Barton, Steve (26 November 2014). "A Female Werewolf Is on the Loose!". Dread Central. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
22. "Female Werewolf". DVD Talk. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
23. "Female Werewolf (2015) (review)". Dread Central. 16 June 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
24. "Teaser, Images: Chris Alexander's Female Werewolf". Shock Till You Drop. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
25. "Exclusive: GIRL WITH A STRAIGHT RAZOR Reveals Official Trailer". Dread Central. 26 April 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
26. "Scream of the Blind Dead". Film Threat. 20 January 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
27. "Chris Alexander comes SCREAM OF THE BLIND DEAD". HorrorNews.net. 20 December 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
28. "Interview Subjects". Why Horror?. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2014.

External links

• Official website
• Chris Alexander at Rotten Tomatoes
• Chris Alexander at IMDb
• Chris Alexander Shares His Guilty Pleasures

• Living people
• Musicians from Toronto
• Canadian radio personalities
• Canadian film critics
• Canadian rock musicians
• Fangoria
• Film directors from Toronto