Is Horror the Ultimate Form of Escapism?
CatBusRuss is not a practitioner of evil, but he is a fan of the art. No one deserves to die, but what is a good story without a few casualties? And if the deaths are just the same through out like the Bond films before the MPAA gave us G, M, R, and X, the audience would soon be tired of bloodless cinema. Celebrate cinematic sins whenever you can.
Horror Pictures (Sinful Cinema)
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2001 Maniacs (2005)
Robert Englund and Lyn Shaye are Confederate ghosts murdering Yankee spring breakers.
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Albino Farm (2009)
A horror movie featuring about five minutes of Chris Jericho. There are some good kills, but that only gives you an extra minute of, “This could be interesting”.
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Antibirth (2016)
Natasha Lyonne is a hard-partying slacker who suddenly finds herself pregnant. But that is impossible since the gestation was less than a day. Is it alien? Is it a government experiment? Will her lack of patience be her DIY abortion?
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Antisocial (2013)
There have been a lot of films on Shudder that do a great job in making the online horror phenomenon. Sadly, that streamer did not come around until two years after this experiment.
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Biohazard (1985)
What happens when you decide to shoot an “Alien” ripoff with 40-something pin-up girls and your backyard.
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David Cronenberg and His Rabid Gangster Bugs
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Dance of the Dead (2008)
CatBusRuss and Mitchell Whitt from the “Morbidly Macabre” podcast discuss an under seen zombie comedy with all it takes to be Romero approved.
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Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Lesbian vampires inspired by Elizabeth Bathory attempt to steal a newly wed wife from her increasingly abusive husband.
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The Brilliance of Stuart Gordon
"Castle Freak" and "Dagon" are all low-budget bangers. And after Russ brings up the 2013 no-budget stinker "Eternal Damn Nation", you will have a greater appreciation of the man who did the most to honor H.P. Lovecraft's horrors (and, to a lesser extent, Tommy Wiseau).
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Gothika (2003)
Halle Berry is locked up in the mental institution she worked at after murdering her husband. There she is haunted and lead to believe that she must have had a just motivation.
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
The conclusion of the “Apocalypse Trilogy” focuses on an insurance investigators task to locate an unstable horror novelist who out sells Stephen King. To succeed he must survive rabid readers and the authors insistence that everything he writes changes reality.
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"The New York Ripper" (1982) & "Out of the Dark" (2014)
A brutal Lucio Fulci classic and Julia Stiles in a dull, environmental-themed ghost story.
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Night of the Demons (1988)
CatBusRuss and Tim Bates chat up a classic horror comedy that shows us how under-appreciated Kevin Tenney is.
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Spiral (2021) & Nocturne (2016)
Chris Rock provides “Saw” fans with a worthwhile fix. It beats the no-budget confusion of the “award-winning” 2016 possession movie.
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Thankskilling, Thankskilling 3, and Black Friday
Horror may be too extreme a term for the fourth week of November, but then came his career in customer service. So the "ThanksKilling" franchise and the Bruce Campbellproduced "Black Friday" may be appropriate comfort viewing for the holiday season kick off.
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You're Next (2011)
A family reunion is ambushed by a duo of animal-masked killers. Too bad they didn’t plan of an Australian survivalist being a family member’s plus one.
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The Zombie Diaries (2006)
The United Kingdom tried to beat George A. Romero to the punch when it comes to a documentary style zombie apocalypse feature. It is funny that the Weinsteins distributed both.