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Christian "Chris" Gore is a speaker and writer on the topic of independent film. He was born September 5, 1965 in Big Rapids, Michigan. He is the main writer and the 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, My Big Fat Independent Movie was a box office bomb, experiencing a very limited theatrical run in 10 markets, earning only $4,655 in box office receipts. The film was poorly received by the public and critics, receiving a very low 23% rotten rating over at Rottentomatoes.com.
Chris Parry, entertainment journalist and film critic for efilmcritic.com offered the following analysis about why "My Big Fat Independent Movie" failed to catch on with the public, stating:
If the makers of MBFIM had chosen only awful indie films to ridicule, they might have found it easier to keep the comedy standard high. Alternately, if they decided to go way over the top and jam as many pop culture references in as possible, as a true test of the indie film fan’s knowledge, they might have carried things off on pure geek homage value. But the film as it stands is stranded in a dire middle ground, where the target audience loves the films being ridiculed too much to go along with things, and the wider audience simply won’t get what films are actually being referenced.
