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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A24 Elevated Horror Marathon in Alphabetical Order
For GalaxyCon Des Moines, CatBusRuss and the Dread Pirate Syzer from Skies of Fortune are going to be guests on each others’ panels. Russ needed to quickly become an expert in A24, so he partook in a preparation binge of “Death of a Unicorn”, “Heretic”, “Men”, and “Midsummer”.
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Skies of Fortune Presents: A24 - Horror Goes to the Arthouse
It was CatBusRuss's pleasure to be invited to be a panelist on Jess McCord's panel at GalaxyCon Des Moines. The topic of said panel, A24's rich horror movie history and influence. But, perhaps, more importantly, is calling it "elevated horror" a good thing?
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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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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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Be Merry or Be Scary: "Deadly Games" aka "Dial Code Santa Claus" with Gregory Carl
CatBusRuss and Gregory Carl determine if the French beat John Hughes to “Home Alone”. “Deadly Games” is the tale of a young boy defending his mansion and grandfather from a psychotic Father Christmas.
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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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Groupie (2010)
Mark L. Lester gives us the tale of The Dark Knights’ first tour after a pyrotechnics accident led to death at their last gig. If the fears of being cursed were not enough, groupies are dying like flies. The suspiscious feel it may be related to Riley, the frontman’s new fling.
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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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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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Jigsaw's Games with Joe Golwitzer + Trashy TRON & Costumes with ThePoeticCritic
A discussion about the “Saw” 1-8. A sister celebrating Disney’s failures. An opinion about a doc dedicated to cheap, licensed Halloween costumes.
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Scary Cinema 6-Pack: Sinners, Jared "Ares" Leto, Puppet Master, Quench, The Reaping, Faustian Weller
CatBusRuss had a four-movie marathon of sub 100-minute features that he intended to kick off the last week of spooky month. Lets just say Ryan Coogler's vision changed that plan. And our host had promised to go back to the Grid while it was still in theaters.
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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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John Carpenter's "The Ward" (2010)
A young woman is institutionalized after she inexplicably burned down a farmhouse. She may have been better off going to jail because she is stuck in a hospital using outdated methods of “therapy”. Therapy that will not rid all the patients fears of a killer ghost.
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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.