Gore was born in Big Rapids, Michigan ^[3] and attended Kimball High School in Royal Oak, Michigan . ^[4]

Gore was a film student at Detroit's Wayne State University , but he dropped out after starting Film Threat. ^[5]

Gore is the head writer and the founder of Film Threat magazine, a project covering independent and underground film which he started in 1985. ^[6]

Early in his career, he had created several short films as Christian Gore: Betaville , Doorman , Red , and Ouch! . ^[7] He also made an hour-long docudrama, Cool Teenager from the Planet X . ^{[5] [8]} He sold some of these through Film Threat Video.

Gore became the Editor in Chief of the newly renamed magazine VideoGames - The Ultimate Gaming Magazine , starting with the September 1993 issue ^{[9] [10]} until the December 1996 issue. ^[11] During this time, he also made his first television appearances on the Jones Computer Network, the network television precursor to ZDTV , as an editorialist and commentator on the state of video games and society. ^{[ citation needed ]}

Gore was a recurring host on the G4 television program Attack of the Show for the DVDuesday segment, reviewing DVDs. ^{[12] [13]} He had also done a film-related segment on the weekly FX series The X Show . He was also the host and moderator of The New Movie Show with Chris Gore , also on FX, in 2000, where a panel mixed between critics and celebrity guests reviewed movies. G4 then based a recurring gag in an August 2010 episode of Attack of the Show on the murder of Chris Gore, bringing up three potential murderers each - furthering the idea that his movies are horrible and that everyone wanted to kill him. ^[14]

Gore co-wrote and produced the independent parody film My Big Fat Independent Movie , a comedy spoof of other indie films featuring Pauly Shore . ^[15] His books include The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made , ^[16] The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide ^[17] and The Complete DVD Book: Designing, Producing and Marketing Your Independent Film on DVD . ^[18] Gore also co-created Sci-Fi Universe magazine ^[6] and created the now-defunct Wild Cartoon Kingdom magazine. The latter was used by John Kricfalusi under the pen name "Thomas Paine" to anonymously criticize Nickelodeon following his September 1992 firing from The Ren & Stimpy Show . ^{[19] [20]} In 2004, he hosted the game show Ultimate Film Fanatic . ^{[21] [22]}

In 2016, Gore was interviewed in the Star Wars documentary film The Prequels Strike Back: A Fan's Journey .

In 2023 he released the documentary Attack of the Doc about the history of G4.

Gore lives in Los Angeles, California. ^{[23] [ better?source?needed ]}

• Indiewood
• Cinephilia

• Film Threat
• ChrisGore.com
• Chris Gore at IMDb
• Chris Gore at AllMovie
• Random Interview with Chris Gore
• PodCRASh with That Chris Gore podcast
• An interview with Chris Gore on Notebook on Cities and Culture