Silly Cinema that will question all of your emotional responses.

You cannot happen to laugh despite the serious nature and themes. CatBusRuss supposes that mean it is just black comedy, but if you think of a film like Tommy Wiseau’s the room, are these laughs intended?

Off the Wall Features

  • Poster art for the first "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" feature - Image from IMDb

    Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007)

    How well does a movie based on an 11-minute long television show work out. It has its moments, but CatBusRuss is not asking for “Super Jail” the movie.

  • Poster for horror/mystery/comedy "Arnold" - Image from IMDb

    Arnold (1973)

    Lord Arnold could not get his wife to divorce him to allow him to marry his mistress. Marriage being “till death do us part”, the moment he dies, he marries a flight attendant. The new missus will live a life of luxury, as long as she takes constant care of his corpse.

  • Poster art for Peter Jackson's "Bad Taste" - Image from IMDb

    Bad Taste (1987)

    Peter Jackson’s directorial debut is a no-budget horror-comedy that took him three years to make. The film is about four kiwis trying to stop an intergalactic plan to turn humans into the latest fast food sensation.

  • Poster for "Better Off Dead" - Image from IMDb

    Better of Dead (1985)

    John Cusack cannot manage to take his own life after his girlfriend leaves him for the ski team captain, so hopefully Curtis Armstrong and the mute French foreign exchange student will get his life back on the right path.

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    Brigsby Bear (2017)

    CatBusRuss thought this was the best sub 100-minute movie that he discovered in 2019. It is the story of a young adult who was kidnapped as a baby and raised on a sci-fi TV show his “father” created to encourage his math skills.

  • Eva the Queen Kitty judging Jack Quaid

    Companion (2025) & Cherry 2000 (1988)

    CatBusRuss and Gregory Carl investigate the morality of being in love with robots designed to be so. Why are we dicks when it comes to AI? Have we learned nothing from Dick and Crichton?

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    Crash (1996)

    David Cronenberg’s feature about a club whose fetish is having sex in motor vehicles, particularly as they end up in horrific accidents.

  • Promotional image for "Frank" on Prime Video

    Frank (2014)

    Jon, an aspiring songwriter/keyboardist finds himself producing an album for The Soronprfbs, a band led by Frank. Frank refuses to remove his paper-mache head, so you know Jon will try to make this genius viral.

  • A possessed Skimble returning the One-Eared Angel to the Bastard Cat

    House (1985) with Gregory Carl

    Gregory Carl and CatBusRuss discuss a horror comedy about a house where a writer settles into write his Vietnam-memoir. Surely the out-of-character suicide by his aunt that left him the home did not awaken anything.

  • DVD art for It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To - Image from IMDb

    It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To (2007)

    A low-budget movie that inspired CatBusRuss to write and attempt to sell his no-budget feature “Main Event of the Dead”. Demons vs. Elvira Cosplay.

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    Invitation to a Suicide (2004)

    Pablo Schreiber is in debt to the Russian mob. If he does not pay off that debt, his father will be executed. Fortunately, the mob shoots snuff films. He offers to be the star of the next film to settle his account.

  • Milla Jovovich at press event - Image from IMDb

    Milla Jovovich 2019: "Hellboy" & "Paradise Hills"

    Jovovich was is a couple of features that critics were overly harsh to. Bad CG effects hindered the fun of Niel Marshall’s film. You’re overly serious to look down on the Emma Roberts flick.

  • Shredder Orpheus poster - Image from IMDb

    Shredder Orpheus (1990)

    Orpheus leads the Shredders, a skate punk band in the dystopian Pacific Northwest. The band’s success is not enough after his wife Eurydice is taken by the Euthanasia Broadcast Network. With his Lyre-Axe and board, he will try to bring her back to the Grey Zone, no matter the cost.

  • Eva the Queen Kitty invades another movie post.

    There's Nothing Out There...Except Nix Eclips

    Nix Eclips from “Cinema Shit Show” comes on to discuss this Troma-distributed horror comedy that beat “Scream’s” meta-humor by fire years.

  • Prime Video menu image for "Vampire in Brooklyn"

    Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

    Wes Craven directs Eddie Murphy, the last vampire who comes to Brooklyn to find the only woman suitable enough to continue the race, Angela Bassett.