"The Descent" (2006) with Tim Avers of "Blood Orange"
It is not another convention panel, but CatBusRuss and "Blood Orange" comic book writer, Tim Avers are collaborating once again to celebrate another film's 20th anniversary. Claustrophobia, psychopathic friends, and hungry cave dwellers...Is there a scarier horror concept than Neil Marshall's "The Descent".
These two content creators met at Tim's "Knives in My Eyes: 20 Years of 'Brick'" panel at ATL Comic Convention. It was a panel that lacked an audience, so the two were left to bounce off of each other instead of amusing fans. They were able to established chemistry quickly. As long as Tim has fun movies to celebrate, the podcast will be a slice of fried gold.
In the end, CatBus just hopes he has inspired Tim to rewatch and perhaps comeback to discuss his favorite Marshall film "Doomsday". Russ thinks a story that features a war between Scottish Punks and Renaissance Fair is certainly a winner. Tim was not that confident enough to agree without a rewatch.
Raw. Baked. Ridiculously Good.
3X the Protein, 50% the Sugar, 20% the Carbs.
“I Dig Crazy Flicks” was founded as “Ninety For Chill”. It is Russ Stevens’s blog dedicated to movies with runtimes between 70 to 100 minutes. This runtime was the standard for horror movies and goofball comedies. Without the time for drawn out narratives, throwing everything at the wall and seeing what would stick was the rule. Thus, craziness ensues, and cinephiles like CatBusRuss want to preach the greatness of embracing the insanity.
Recent Episodes
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Episode 292
CatBusRuss & the writer of the “Blood Orange” comic wonder what the cinematic career of #NeilMarshall should have been after watching the best horror film of the century not involving singing vampires, “The Descent”.
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Bonus
A 109-minute Bolivian coming-of-age story about a teenage midwife's daughter torn between ancient tradition and big-city dreams, filmed in the Quechua-speaking Andes with non-professional actors. - Per Kelly Hargraves
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Episode 291
CatBusRuss and Chris Martinez from “Big Dumb Monsters” present a panel at Indiana Comic Convention 2026 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Aliens”. Russ also reviews Neil Marshall’s version of James Cameron’s classic, “Dog Soldiers”.
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Episode 290
Warm up for season 10 of @ccinemapodcast.bsky.social by hearing Russ’s initial thoughts from a rewatch of “Cannibal Holocaust” Is the director of “Upstream Colors” monster? For fun horror, Russ talks up “Thir13en Ghosts” & “VFW”
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Episode 289
CatBusRuss & ThePoeticCritic head to East Moline to discuss the copycat cinema of 1986, a time where direct-to-video was for the “educational” tapes at church. If you want to sell a cassette, it had to be a legit film. Or so they called “GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords”.
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Episode 288
Can a competently directed #horror feature with some dark humor still be an absolute failure? #ZachCregger makes CatBusRuss answer the question with his ignorance of #ResidentEvil. For a fun #zombie movie without as much style, may Russ suggest “Cooties”?
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Bonus
Female-fronted action cinema with Ally. Dancing is action, so “Flashdance” is included. Get ready for the #Cregger #ResidentEvil by reviewing the first series of films. Russ also compared CG-animation from today with #FinalFantasy “The Spirits Within”
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Episode 287
#ZachCregger puts his #horror reputation on the line. Russ explores if #ResidentEvil has been done right. Is it wiser to adapt or reimagine? How about sticking to the #videogame continuity like “Vendetta” & “Death Island”?
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Episode 286
CatBusRuss is called up to be an expert about “The Transformers: The Movie” at the trauma bonding panel at #IndianaComicConvention. He also reviews a #cartoon that is 40 years younger with “Coyote vs. Acme”
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Episode 285
CatBusRuss provides a TEDTalk to Missouri Comic Con 2026 about knock off cinema from 40 years ago. It was time before the direct-to-video market allowed Mom to say, “We have Texas Chainsaw 2” at home.
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Episode 284
CatBusRuss plays host to Kolin of “Trashpanda Podcast” and Andras from “Ta2squid Podcast” with the plan to chat about 2005’s “Doom”. Chaos soon reigns over the conversation as if “The Dungeonmaster” from 1984 was taking control.
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Episode 283
CatBusRuss gets to ask The Horror Master what influences Argento’s films had on “Halloween”, watched Miike’s “Dead or Alive” to prep for @ccinemapodcast.bsky.social, and how the money gouging of #FanExpo constantly mocking nerds & geeks.
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Episode 281
CatBusRuss has a conversation with ThePoeticCritic about the current and future state of cinema. Because there should be movie reviews on a podcast, he went to #Peacock to watch #SuperMarioGalaxy & #Obsession.
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Episode 141
Jonathan Romeo comes to the podcast to focus on William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, but its longer than 100 minutes. So he and CatBusRuss discuss features it may have inspired: “Evil Dead 2”, “Prince of Darkness”, Brandon Cronenberg’s “Possessor”, “Demons”, “Saint Maud”, and “Event Horizon”.
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