Sun, 30 April 2023
This week we're diving deeply and darkly into the DTV realm and fishing up a couple of classier than usual gems with legitimate people involved. We kick things off with a discussion of the subtly anger fueled Neo-Noir, Sweet Virginia (2017), featuring a sad, bearded bull riding Jonny Bernthal. Then we head out to Baltic region and fish ourselves up some Polish gangsters in the undercover-snitch/prison crime drama, The Informer (2019), featuring Robocop, Gone Girl, Shoot 'Em Up, Marilyn Monroe and Common! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Thu, 20 April 2023
Sometimes you go into a movie with hopes and dreams of the magnificently magical treasure box that's about to hopefully be revealed before your eye meats. You see the cast, the plot synopsis and the vintage and you just know you're in for something truly special. And other times you end up with the Brent Huff penned and directed stinkbag, The Bad Pack (1997) starring Robert Davi in a big dumb leather jacket and Confederate soldier cap. Luckily, there are yet other times when you don't have any expectations at all and you end up with something really kinda special. Such is the case with Don Johnson in his cinematic debut, as an unhinged cop on the edge, chasing Neo Nazis across the American heartland in Dead Bang (1989)! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop
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Tue, 11 April 2023
Real movie fans buy a lot of movies. The REALEST movie fans buy movies they've never even seen. The even REALER REALEST movie fans buy movies they've never seen and often don't watch them for years... Even decades. This week we help to assuage this weighty, watchlist affliction by assisting Jake in ensuring his well earned money has been spent wisely by watching two bangers from his back catalogue. We kick things off with a discussion about a snow suit and social commentary infused, Exploitation/Docu-Drama from Canucklehead land, Gina (1975). Then we throw on our crispiest pair of tighty whities and descened into a nightmare world of gay panic and hairy thighs in the Giallo inspired weirdness of Hanging Heart (1989). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 2 April 2023
One big, fat Keanu special. Two big, fat Keanu Meatball Sandwiches. Young Keanu as an action boy in Point Break (1991) and Old Keanu as an action man in John Wick Chapter 4 (2023). "Gimme 2!" Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Tue, 28 March 2023
Karate Kid was a movie about a kid who learns karate from a Karate master and uses his newly learned skills to overcome a group of bullies, and in the journey, finds himself. A Fight For Honor (1992) is a movie about a (female!) kid who learns Tae Kwon Do from a Tae Kwon Do master and uses her newly learned skills to overcome (two!) groups of bullies and in the journey gets undercut by the grandson of her Tae Kwon Do master. Rampage (1997) on the other hand, can't properly be conveyed using human vocal chords. It's a vibe. It's a multitude of vibes. It's the kind of thing that can only really be embodied by a .Gif of an old man stepping nude from his shower and taking a pull from a carefully placed mickey of Bacardi Rum next to his sink. Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop
Direct download: ep456_Gino_Pepperoncinis_Seafood_Saloon.mp3
Category:movies -- posted at: 10:11pm EDT |
Tue, 21 March 2023
This week we salute all the heroes and their various blood types. Rutger Hauer, Vincent D'Onofrio (looking fine as hell), Delroy Lindo, Sean Connery, that pale dude from Queen of the Damned, The Invisible Man, La Femme Nikita, Mr. Hyde's outsized tophat, Stephen Norrington's ego, Captain Nemo's Indian Capoeira skills and a surprising amount of Cum. Literally the whole shebang. We get the dog skull rolling with a chat about a game that makes no sense but nevertheless captivates the endtimes in The Blood of Heroes aka Salute of the Jugger (1989). Then we dive headlong into Victorian era, filigree ensconced hatred with Sean Connery and Stephen Norrington's mutual retirement-driven, early 2000s cash toilet, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Tue, 14 March 2023
This week we head out to the European wilds and experience death and destruction as only the Netherlands and Jolly Old England can provide. First, we experience emotional death and destruction in the form of the miserable, Kitchen Sink nightmare, The Black Panther (1997). Then we head to Amsterdam with Dick Maas at the helm and experience the death and destruction of a mute girl's childhood at the hands of The Commish himself, Michael Chiklis in Do Not Disturb (1999). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop
Direct download: ep454_Billy_Boy_Mansons_British_Blanket_Buffet.mp3
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Tue, 7 March 2023
The desert is a place where people go to get lost. It's also a place where people go to get found. Then again, it's also a place where dirtbags like to do dumb sh*t while messed up on illicit drugs and maybe start an off the grid colony or something. The point is... wait... what was the point? Oh yeah, this week the movies we're talking about feature deserts. They also feature lots of scenes with dumbsh*ts embarrassing themselves in front of cameras while potentially under the influence. Often while in the desert. First we kick things off with one of the cornballiest cornfests that ever corned in Lee Katzin's doofy post apoc dorkfest, World Gone Wild (1988). Then we take a hit off that good, good nostalgia hooka in the backseat of Ollie Stone's convertible and have a panic attack because he's sweating too much, talking too fast and his face keeps morphing into Tarantino's while blabbering media conspiracies at us in Natural Born Killers (1994). Oh yeah, and we managed to do somewhat of a Tom Sizemore tribute episode a week before his death without even knowing it! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 26 February 2023
This week we head back to the mystical land of the orient and discover that, as long suspected, the people of Asia have the highest blood pressure of anyone in the world. We also discover that high school girls are more terrifying than the reanimated corpse of a World War II soldier capable of pulling a man's arm off and caving his skull in with it. We kick things off with a discussion of what may be the bloodiest movie (in gallons) to ever bloody our screens in the newly released South Korean blood bomb, Project Wolf Hunting (2022). Then we suffer a full blown nervous breakdown while watching Koji Yakusho track down his emotionally abusive demon spawn in Tetsuya Nakashima's nihilism bomb, World of Kanako (2019). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Mon, 20 February 2023
Why can't we escape the early aughts?! BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO. This week we mix things up with one of the sleaziest, most confounding teen dramas of the past two decades with the sleaztastic, Elisha Cuthbert produced, incest infused The Quiet (2005). Then we bring "The Demon" back to the show with a heaping helping of dad-ly Rob Van Dam and a side of Big Dave Bautista slappy knife fighting his way through David DeFalco's The Wrong Side of Town. Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop
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Sun, 12 February 2023
It's episode 450! Which means it's time to talk about honor. It's time to talk about brotherhood. It's time to talk about Heroes. Bloodshed. It's time to talk about cool sunglasses. Trenchcoats. The plausability of smoking while also holding a toothpick in one's mouth. Dealing with trauma by way of the food triangle. Whether or not it's a good idea to wear all white to a precarious criminal exchange. And most importantly, the concept of rice being the embodiment of one's father AND mother all at once. It's time to talk about John Woo's bro-therly duology, A Better Tomorrow I (1986) and A Better Tomorrow II (1987). Happy 450! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Mon, 6 February 2023
Bo's a family man. Bo's an action man. Bo's an adrenaline infused man. Bo knows acting. Bo knows good old fashioned values. Bo knows when someone's stepped over the line. Bo knows it's not cool to take pics of his boy while he practices soccer with the other boys. Bo knows violence. Bo knows retribution. This week we talk about the trials and tribulations of Bo (Cole Hauser) and his quest to take the power back from the slimy, no good, double dealin' Paps and their dirty, dirty ways in the Mel Gibson infused Paparazzi (2004). We also talk about a movie called Kick of Death (1997) which features a suspicious lack of Death Kickin' and a worrying amount of surf guitar. Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop
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Sun, 29 January 2023
The topic of this week's episode is misplaced rage. Rage about being forgotten after suffering for your country. Rage about how your patriotic duty resulted in the allowance of people you don't particularly care for or respect gaining freedoms you don't believe they deserve. Rage about how you spent all this time building a cool serrated razor glove with no one to show it off to but a bunch of horny teenagers who don't appreciate your craftsmanship. Rage about how you built all these crazy booby traps that aren't effective in the least. Rage about how you're 34 years old and you already have the face and hairline of a 72 year old pop-pop with 13 grandchildren. Rage about how you can't bear to hear your ol' lady talk about her curtain selection process with some rich broad. This rage is represented in two very different but no less viscerally hard hitting, diamond sharp films. First, in the Mexican produced Slasher, Trampa Infernal aka Hell's Trap (1989). Then, in Joe (1970). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 22 January 2023
Richard Bruno Riddick is the focus of this week's episode. Richard. Bruno. Riddick. "Dick Riddick". "Dicky Rids". He's a space man who wears a black tank top and welding goggles and talks like he's been drinking full cartons of heavy table cream all day. He fights aliens. He fights men. He fights his desire to make it with women who think of him as an older brother. He has chronicles and eventually he becomes space Conan... Or something. Richie B. Riddick. The space guido. Our hero. Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Mon, 16 January 2023
CDR brings the sweet Treat(s) to the show this week with a couple of absolute bangin' choices. First thing's first, we teeter on the Tightrope (1984) with horny, midlife crisis Clint and a bevy of young ladies at his beck and call, including his very own daughter. Then we get down n' dirrrty with Treat Williams as he inflitrates a high school with his best tight shirted merc bro and a Vietnam Vet tunnel rat janitor in The Substitute 2: School's Out (1998). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Mon, 9 January 2023
This week we strap on our leathers, grab our hot little mamas and unleash our inner Wild Hogs on the open road with a couple of 90s biker classics(?). We kick things off with one of the sweetest and least badass entries in the pantheon, Running Cool (1993), the "fart rock" infused, environmentally conscious tale of Andrew Divoff saving his friend Ironbutt's homestead. Then things get slightly spicier with the third entry in the much beloved Snake Eater series, Snake Eater 3: His Law, in which two men scheme to get Bam Bam Bigelow drunk enough that they can sneakily electrocute his penis to death. Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Tue, 3 January 2023
Sometimes the men in white coats come along, snatch you up and use wire fire to scramble your eggs, which can be pretty wild. Not as wild as raising a child after such a horrifying and life altering event, which is exactly what happens in the John Sayles penned weirdo hobo superhero epic, Wild Child (1987). But before we dive into all that nonsense, we head out to the desert and spend some time hanging with hillbilly Foghorn Leghorn impersonator, Jim Belushi while he flies through time attempting to press his belt buckle into poor, unsuspecting ladies' foreheads in Retroactive (1997). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Mon, 26 December 2022
The youth run wild in the streets and on the B-Ball courts in this week's episode and none of us are safe. We kick things off with the gritty, grounded look at the illicit world of deathmatch "Cage Ball" in Hoop Soldiers (2000). Then we head to the explosively deadly streets of L.A. where the terrifying yuppie youth have run amok and even the combined powers of Wings Hauser and Joey Travolta may not be enough to stop them in Wilding (1990). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 18 December 2022
This week we continue to wallow in the early 2000s mire as we're wont to do. Up front we head to Depression era gangland with Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Daniel Craig's ghoulish mug and Jude Law's baked bean teeth in Road to Perdition (2002). Then we bang back a shot and take a flight over to the land of tea and crumpets to watch some dag fights with a cavalcade of goofballs in the whip pan loaded Snatch (2000). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop
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Sun, 11 December 2022
This week we pay tribute to an auteurist B-cinema titan and also take some time to recognize the significant contributions Gregory Scott Cummins made to the music world via the golden year of 1997. We start things off with a PM Entertainment deep dive into the controversial world of Hip-Hop based copyright infringement and the violent, vengeful Disco crusaders trying to speak tuth to power through unhinged violence in, The Underground (1997). Then we check out the Tarantino/Mambo/Pergutory infused Most Dangerous Game-like from Albert Pyun, Mean Guns (1997). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Mon, 5 December 2022
Bill Olsen aka Bananaman, founder and iron fisted overlord of Code Red Releasing has finally shuffled off the proverbial grocery store shelf and into the great smoothie beyond. To honor him, we've hand selected two of his most well regarded releases. We kick things off with the Australian, Terminator/Aliens/Blade Runner by way of boob armor and the outback in The Time Guardian (1987). Then we witness soggy, sweaty Jason Miller slow-jog his way through the jungle to help rescue some 34 year old teens who fall on the wrong side of the least capable South American kidnappers in Toy Soldiers (1984). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 27 November 2022
This week we run along the razor thin edge of that blue line with a few cops... on the edge. First we head back out to the far East of the far past and dig up a definitive Hong Kong New Wave classic with the wildly nasty and endlessly gritty, Cops and Robbers (1979). Then we head to the dirty streets of Cleveland and watch Michael Rooker and Bobby Patrick duke it out in the tactically satisfying filthy cop thriller, Renegade Force aka Counterforce aka Rogue Force (1998) Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 20 November 2022
This week Chuck Connors delivers his sexiest performance while taking some city boys (one of them the Master of Beasts) out on the trail all slick-style in the oddball made for TV Sci-Fi something or other, High Desert Kill (1989). Then we dive into a DTV, Canucklehead action classic with Rowdy Roddy Piper, Billy Blanks and a Zubaz soaked McNamara Bros cameo in Back in Action (1994). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sat, 12 November 2022
This week we ease ourselves back into the stylin' Cult of Muscle lifestyle like a couple of super chill baby beachboy bums hittin' the waves in search of the perfect Cali-Zen frame of mind. We kick things off by heading to the islands of New Zealand in the romantic, buddy chase-em-up Action/Comedy, Never Say Die (1988). Then we rip some betty-ass waves while dreamin' about in-line skate superiority and Skyline Chilli in the EXTREME, Cincinnati based, teen-sports fantasy, Airborne (1993). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Fri, 4 November 2022
While all your favorite retailers are busy hanging their decorations in preparation for the arrival of the big man in the red suit, The Cult Boys are still firmly fixated on frights! This week we pour y'all a little extra scare juice to get over that Halloween hangover in the form of 3 more terrifying tales of terror. Firstly, we end our 80s V-Cinema run with possibly the biggest, baddest entry of all in the form of Gakidama aka Demon Within (1985). Then we pop on the Australian boob tube and check out the made for TV Halloween knockoff, Coda aka Deadly Obsession (1987). Finally, we bring the lunkheaded trash genius, James Bryan back to the show for one of THE dumbest entries in one of the dumbest horror subgenres, the Slasherific backwoods romp, Don't Go in the Woods... Alone! (1981) Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop
Direct download: ep436_A_Little_Halloween_Hair_of_the_Dog.mp3
Category:movies -- posted at: 10:10pm EDT |
Sun, 30 October 2022
We hope you didn't think the Halloween thrills and chills were over yet because if you did think that you'd be sorely mistaken. VERY sore and VERY mistaken. This week we head to the rolling hills of San Francisco with a gaggle of the postiest Post Punks and a brain sucking baby in the SOV Horror police procedural, Night Feeder (1988). Then we take a trip to the woods with Gregg Henry and two big ol' gigglin' hillbilly baby boys in Jeff Lieberman's backwoods slash 'em up classic, Just Before Dawn (1981). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop
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Fri, 21 October 2022
This week Halloween keeps Halloweeinin' along with a review of a new Halloween movie and a little visit from our good friends, creeeeeeepy Uncle Dario and a big old pile of undulating Japanese meat! First, we join a group of giggling schoolgirls as they dive headlong into the aforementioned flesh pile with a review of Guzoo (1986). Then we check out something new from someone VERY old in Dario Argento's Dark Glasses (2022). Finally, we don our Sheriff kimonos and watch Halloween get deaded with DGG's concluding entry in the unending Halloween franchise, Halloween Ends (2022). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 16 October 2022
This week we keep the ghoul train rollin' right along with an oldy and a newy and a REALLY mean Japanese Alien who absolutely HATES scientists and medicines. We kick things off with the bonkers, goretastic and environmentally sound V-Cinema offering, Biotherapy (1986). Then we head down into the sub-sub-sub-sub basement of America's oldest cotton mill with the thickest Maine accent ever put to film and a gajillion rats in Graveyard Shift (1990). Lastly, we jump on the bleeding edge reboot, requel, something-quel train with the newest and biggest budgetest Hellraiser movie ever put to screen with the recently released Hellraiser (2022). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Fri, 7 October 2022
It's that time of year, folks. We can finally slough off our hume-skins and unleash our inner skeletons and ghosties because THE SEASON OF THE SAMHAINS IS UPON US!! To celebrate the turning of the leaves we bring with us 3 spoooooooky, scaaaaaary and sometimes hooooooorny bangers to get you in the mood. We kick things off with the first of a special bonus series we'll be doing throughout the month on Japanese, V-Cinema horror shorts with the world's goopiest elevator duel in Cyclops (1987). Then, Jake can't control his primal urges and keep it in his pants so he brings some softcore to the Halloween sleepover with Ruggero Deodato's Boob n' Buttspoitation Horror Noir, The Washing Machine (1993). Finally, we head to the mean and dirty ghettos of early 2000s Vancouver with the ghost of S-N-DOUBLE-O-P and a bunch of very Canadian teens in the Ernest P. Dickerson, Blaxploitation themed maggot fest, Bones (2001). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 2 October 2022
On this week's show CDR goes all the way back in time and basks in the glory of his first ever theatrical experience, Ron Howard's warm smile and magnitudes of child endangerment in Willow (1988). Then we head on down to Florida with Joel D. Wynkoop's camcorder, his menagerie of comedic action dunces and a plethora of roundhouse kicks in Lost Faith (1992) Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop
Direct download: 431_Burglekutts_House_of_Baby_Reactions.mp3
Category:movies -- posted at: 8:35pm EDT |
Mon, 26 September 2022
This week we discuss two kings(?) of action, new and old in the "Tomcat" and Chuck Norris (now with added wet mullet!). We kick things off with Chucky in Vancouver doing his best to prove that he's a very good and nice cop who also happens to murder with impunity in The Hit Man (1991). Then we head to the mystical streets of Prague with Tom Cruise and his coin stuffed shoes to kick off one of THE premier blockbuster franchises, helmed by Dr. Split Diopter, Brian DePalma in Mission Impossible (1996) Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Wed, 21 September 2022
This week CDR airlifts in two megastinkers with highly toxic levels of ineptitude capable of an extinction level event. First, we climb like the squirrel in the Native Americansploitation stalk and chase Noir thriller, Warpath (2001). Then we head on up to Northern Ontario with the Arnie entourage and watch the honorable Gov. Jesse Ventura and Sven-Ole Thorsen run through shallow creek beds in Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe (1991) Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 11 September 2022
This week Jake delivers the pathos from the East and West in two, dramatically different, but no less dramatic picks. First, we kick things off with the updated Wuxia tragedy from master Sammo Hung, starring Andy Lau and an Orca named Wayne in Moon Warriors (1993). Then we head on down to Bummertown, USA (pop. 2) with Viggo Mortensen's depressingly square butt cheeks and a whole lot of cannibalism in John Hillcoat's The Road (2009) Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Mon, 5 September 2022
CDR can't leave the early 2000s alone and it's become a problem. Is there any film as indicative of it's era as Stephen Sommer's 2004 Universal Monster-packed trash epic, Van Helsing? We're gonna try to find out and Jake's far from happy about it! Then, we bring master of machismo Walter Hill back to the show with his stab at classic Noir via comic book aesthetics in Johnny Handsome (1989) while trying and failing not to talk about Mickey Rourke's dramatic face arc. Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 28 August 2022
This week we return to our roots with some prime cuts of nostalgia bait. First, Jake brings with him an early slice of PM Entertainment copsploitation in the cowboy fantasy tinged L.A. Heat (1989). Then we head out to the East Coast and experience the deep dark plight of the inner city youth gun-trade in Forest Whitaker's 90s Hip-Hop infused Strapped (1993). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Fri, 19 August 2022
This week CDR chooses to subject Jake to some full-blown audio/ocular torture but makes sure he lubes him up a little beforehand with some comfy cozy CoM fodder. We kick things off with the sublimely brotastic, men-on-a-mission-by-way-of-Action-International-Pictures caper, Maximum Breakout (1991) from self proclaimed female action queen, Tracy "Boom Boom" Britton. Then things get ultra spicy with Richard Kelly's sophomore self-indulgence extravaganza, Southland Tales (2006). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Wed, 10 August 2022
This week Jakey delivers two picks centered around the always tenuous bonds between men. First, broken blue brotherhoods abound in the (thematic) DTV sequel, Street Kings 2: Motor City (2011). Then we glug down a whole bottle of dubious Snake Wine and get a severe case of brotherly coagulopathy with the early stage Korean Axe-Kicksploitation opera, The City of Violence (2006) Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 31 July 2022
This week we gather our "gear" and head out to the desert for a little maxin' and relaxin' with a couple of party time favorites in the form of the Hitcher-esque hardpan Slasher, Mirage (1990) and the Buddy G (of Combat Shock fame) poverty porn headscratcher, Life is Hot in Cracktown (2009). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop
Direct download: ep423_Sun_Lees_International_House_of_Crackheads.mp3
Category:movies -- posted at: 9:00pm EDT |
Mon, 25 July 2022
This week we pay homage to a titan of cinematic machismo with a review of the semi forgotten James Caan/Petey Boyle road comedy oddity, Slither (1973) Then we bust out our ladles and fish up a lost dreg, festering at the bottom of the filmic slop trough since 1993 in the bizarre, mannequin-based revenge thriller, Kiss and Be Killed. Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 17 July 2022
This week CD-R is feeling the rhythm of the night and all he can think about is how much he likes to move it, move it. Despite being Mr. Vein he pumps up the jam with a couple of hotsteppers in the form of the Ulli Lommel anti-Yakuza screed, Overkill (1987). Then we find out all the ways that rhythm is a dancer on Queen St. East, Toronto in the shiny shirt encrusted, club kid saturated revenge odyssey, Dark Nova (1999) Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Wed, 13 July 2022
This week the boys are turning Japanese. We're turning Japanese. Yeah, we really think so. Is that a problem? First off we tuck into a little dose of Yojimbo-esque hooliganism with the live action, Streets of Fire tinged Manga adaptation, Glorious Asuka Gang (1988). Then we jump back in time ten years earlier and get our knots knocked off by the stunningly character actor packed, gangster tour-de-force, Yakuza War: Japanese Don (1977) from Sadao Nakajima. Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sat, 2 July 2022
This week CDR takes the boys North of the equator to chillier climes with a couple of chilly barn burners. First, we head up to Manitoba and experience the most subdued apocalypse this side of James Van Der Beek's chin with The Plague (2006). Then we pilot our sloop on over to Sweden where the folks are all blood bloated like a bunch of ticks and ready to pop at all times in War Dog (1987). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 26 June 2022
This week The Cult digs deep into the grimiest, filthiest, stinkiest chunnels of their VHS archives and deliver two steaming hot meatpies of varying quality. First off we endure the dubious charisma vaccum that is Fred "The Hammy Hammer" Williamson in the Cobra-knockoff-cum-questionable-Italian-franchise kickoff, Black Cobra (1987). Then we head on down to Texas and bathe ourselves in the glorious mana from heaven that is Robert Pentz in a true regional action smorgasboard of bloody violence and loveable cinematic ineptitude with Burning Vengeance (1989). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sat, 18 June 2022
This week CD-R delivers to The Cult a healthy dose of estrogen packed vengeance with an erratically delivered side order of Fundamentalist Mormon hatred in the liftage section. First, we kick things off with the extremely questionable, implant smuggling, Tiana Alexander-Silliphant star vehicle, Catch the Heat (1987). Then we head on up to New YAWK by way of 1997 and a LOT of Riotgrrrrl influence in the Drive-in infused A Gun for Jennifer. Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Fri, 10 June 2022
This week the boys are out to play and when the boys are out to play they go HARD. And when the boys go HARD they cover movies like Fist Fighter (1989) and then when it's time to relax after all that HARD play, the boys like to sit down and play even HARDER (while still sitting) with a little dose of Top Gun (1986). HARD. Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Thu, 2 June 2022
You get up every morning from your alarm clock's warning Take the 8:15 into the city There's a whistle up above and people pushin', people shovin' And the girls who try to look pretty And if your train's on time, you can get to work by nine And start your slaving job to get your pay If you ever get annoyed, look at me I'm self-employed I love to work at nothing all day And I'll be taking care of business (every day) Taking care of business (every way) I've been taking care of business (it's all mine) Taking care of business and working overtime, work out If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician If you could make sounds loud or mellow Get a second-hand guitar, chances are you'll go far If you get in with the right bunch of fellows People see you having fun just a-lying in the sun Tell them that you like it this way It's the work that we avoid, and we're all self-employed We love to work at nothing all day And we be taking care of business (every day) Taking care of business (every way) We be been taking care of business (it's all mine) Taking care of business and working overtime Mercy Whoo All right Take good care of my business When I'm away, every day Whoo They get up every morning from their alarm clock's warning Take the 8:15 into the city There's a whistle up above and people pushin', people shovin' And the girls who try to look pretty And if your train's on time, you can get to work by nine And start your slaving job to get your pay If you ever get annoyed, look at me I'm self-employed I love to work at nothing all day And I be taking care of business (every day) Taking care of business (every way) I've been taking care of business (it's all mine) Taking care of business and working overtime, take care Takin' care of business, whoo Takin' care of business Takin' care of business Takin' care of business Takin' care of business (every day) Takin' care of business (every way) Takin' care of business (it's all mine) Takin' care of business and working overtime, whoo Takin' care of business Takin' care of business We be takin' care of business We be takin' care of business Takin' care of business Takin' care of business Takin' care of business MOVIES THIS WK: Tim Kincaid's Bad Girls Dormitory (1986) and Possessed II (1984) Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 22 May 2022
This week Jake summons the still-living spirit of Spiro Razatos and it's unholy manifestation is two distinctly militaristic, dum-dum, hoo-ra parties. First we kick things off with Big Dumb Dolph in Storm Catcher (1999), a movie about a fighter jet so futuristic that only a man in a space suit who slurs his speech can fly it. Then we head up to Canada with Big Dumb Bohunk, Terrence Knox and his bevvy of broad acting B-actors in Tripwire (1989). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 15 May 2022
 This week CD-R delivers some dated delicacies from the late 90s and early aughts. First, we kick things off with Sammy Jackson and Clifton Collins Jr. in the Teachersploitation message movie, One Eight Seven (1997). Then we head back to France with ol' marble mouth Nick Nolte for the Neil Jordan by way of Melville caper remake, The Good Thief (2002). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sat, 7 May 2022
  This week Jake delivers a heapin' helpin' of Spaghetti and Goombahs. First we travel to France with a gaggle of the Francophoniest Sicilians in The Sicilian Clan (1969). Then we get heavy duty Godfather deja vu with Robert Forster in tight slacks and big man-heels and Anthony Quinn as a big, romantic softie in The Don is Dead (1973). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Fri, 29 April 2022
This week CD-R brings us two modern slices of the edgiest, lordiest variety with Rob Jabbaz's Taiwanese meat party, The Sadness (2021) and then we jump in the time machine and head back to the plague times to check out what was going on in the dirtiest convent in all the land with Paul Verhoeven's nunsploitation epic, Benedetta (2021). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop
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Sat, 23 April 2022
The muscle brothers have been reunited this week and with his return Jake brings a new insight and fatherly wisdom to the show. He also brings two fresh manifestations of the psychological terrors only a father can harbor or understand in Inside (2007) and The Good Son (1993). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Sun, 10 April 2022
This week we summon two more magickal oddities from the depths of the cinematic underworld. First off, CD-R delivers a heapin' helpin' of "Thees", "Thous" and "Whethers" in The Lords of Magick (1989). Then Cody summons a veritable army of B-list action "heroes" in the cobbled together, little seen, nonsensterpiece Beyond the Game (2016) whch absolutely has to be seen to be believed! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Mon, 4 April 2022
This week good friend of the show Cody steps up to the plate and assists CD-R in deciphering the cinematic sanskrit that is Andrea Bianchi's Maniac Killer (1987). Then our collective hair gets blown all the way back with the pure, unadulterated adrenaline filled lifestyle of a group of "wheel pigs" in the never-picked-up pilot for Blade Cops (1998) Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop
Direct download: ep408_Billy_Mustards_Clip-on_Balaklava_Hoops.mp3
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Sat, 26 March 2022
Jake's about to go on a temporary podcast hiatus so in preperation CDR's conjured him some tasty cinematic comfort food in the form of Herman Yau's shrimpocalypse stunner, Taxi Hunter (1993). Then we veer headlong into a high octane, HK-infused action bonanza with Mark Dacascos and Kadeem Hardison behind the wheel in 1997's Drive. Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop |
Thu, 17 March 2022
This week the cult cuts through the fog and splashes on the sparkles as we dig into the fantasy muck. Beautfiul hair abounds and the community theater costumes dazzle in Sword of the Valiant and Lucio Fulci shows us what a caveman can do if he believes in the power of friendship in Conquest! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:29:05 Sword of the Valiant: 0:30:35 - 1:03:15 Conquest: 1:04:45 - END |
Thu, 10 March 2022
Some heavy hitters roll on into the hallowed halls this week as Arnie puts on his best flannels and Hugo Boss in Raw Deal and Billy Blanks finds himself a mop and a wide array of hats in Showdown! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:34:50 Raw Deal: 0:36:20 - 1:16:00 Showdown: 1:17:30 - END
Direct download: ep405-_Myurdered_Moolested_and_Myootilated.mp3
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Thu, 3 March 2022
With the passing of everyone's favorite sleepy eyed prince of justice, Leo Fong, the Cult pays tribute with some chicken feet soup and iced beer. First up Scotty Adkins is the world's best ninja named Casey in Ninja: Shadow of a Tear and Leo Fong squishes some cake in Low Blow! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:43:15 Ninja- Shadow of a Tear: 0:44:45 - 1:26:00 Low Blow: 1:27:30 - END |
Thu, 24 February 2022
What happens when a dude takes his hot wife to the Phillipines and has her wear different outfits while killing people? What happens when Mike Danton becomes the deadliest prey??? Find out this week as we dip in a big ol tub of sleaze with Too Hot to Handle and the family Prior dusts off the cut-off jorts in Deadliest Prey! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:47:30 Too Hot to Handle: 0:49:00 - 1:23:50 Deadliest Prey: 1:25:20 - END |
Thu, 17 February 2022
Whether it's girls with guns or boys with too much energy, the cult has got you covered this week. Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima tangle once again in Beauty Investigator and Seasonal Films decides to make pro wrestling way cooler and way dorkier in Superfights! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:35:00 Beauty Investigator: 0:36:30 - 1:07:15 Superfights: 1:08:45 - END
Direct download: ep402-_Steroids_and_Mind_Control_Drugs.mp3
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Thu, 10 February 2022
A new dawn with the cult and who better to guide us into uncharted territory than Helmut Berger and Richard Grieco. Berger is a scoundrel to Richard Harrison and his family in Beast With a Gun and then we review ol faithfuls Art Camacho and David DeFalco take us through the scummiest scumlords of Hollywood in Point Doom! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:48:40 Beast With a Gun: 0:50:10 - 1:26:45 Point Doom: 1:28:15 - END |
Thu, 3 February 2022
400 episodes, 400 reasons to cry, 400 reasons to grunt, and 400 reasons to regret. This week we gather a cadre of pals to celebrate this odorous occasion to roll through four stinky bangers for your pleasure. First up good friend Mattsuzaka calls up his pal Stingray and Godfrey Hall for one of the heaviest hitters, Undefeatable. Next up Cody classes up with joint with deviants and angel foam in Naked Kiss. Then finally Jason and Shaun bust through the gates with reviews of Enzo Castellari's Light Blast and Curtis Bush scampering around in Psycho Kickboxer! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:34:00 Undefeatable: 0:35:30 - 1:45:30 Naked Kiss: 1:47:00 - 2:55:00 Light Blast: 2:56:30 - 3:55:55 Psycho Kickboxer: 3:56:05 - 4:46:10 Outro: 4:47:40 - END
Direct download: ep400-_Stinky_Stingrays_Bonbon_Cheezballs_and_Hot_Tuna.mp3
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Thu, 27 January 2022
Before we cross the threshold into the great 4-0-0 beyond, we got stop off for some pierogis and baggy sweats. Thomas Ian Griffith meets up with Rutger Hauer slap their swords in Blood of the Innocent and an ex-con returns home to whip the shit out of Jackie Chan's stunt team in Angry Ranger! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:46:50 Blood of the Innocent: 0:48:10 - 1:16:50 Angry Ranger: 1:18:10 - END |
Fri, 21 January 2022
We're creeping up on a milestone episode, so lets see what Boaz Davison and Treat Williams' cheeks are up to. Joe Lara runs away from Big Nick Rafferty in American Cyborg: Steel Warrior and Kris Kristofferson and Treat bro it up in the desert in Flashpoint! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:27:40 American Cyborg Warior Steel: 0:29:10 - 1:03:00 Flashpoint: 1:04:30 - END |
Thu, 13 January 2022
In this week's episode of the Cult, the wrong Carradine gets the spotlight and a kickboxing legend gets tomatoes tossed at him by a guy named after liquor. First up is the grimiest and silliest kickboxing film involving condom catching training Full Contact and Robert Carradine is a terrible partner with terrible gut health in Number One With a Bullet! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:58:25 Full Contact: 0:59:55 - 1:43:25 Number One With a Bullet: 1:44:55 - END |
Thu, 6 January 2022
New year, old Lambert and old Ringo Lam in the hallowed halls of the cult this week. Christopher Lambert finds himself in Europe and getting up to some virtual reality hijinks in Nirvana and Ringo Lam brings his collection of skulls and mayhem to Burning Paradise! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 1:17:35 Nirvana: 1:19:05 - 1:50:25 Burning Paradise: 1:51:55 - END |
Fri, 31 December 2021
2021 is getting left in the dust this week as we explore metatextual commentary and what makes Gary Busey such a great rowing coach. First up Gary Busey sows his oats all over the damn place in Breaking Point and Lana Wachowski digs deep into the shitty sunglasses drawer for The Matrix Resurrections! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:17:30 Breaking Point: 0:17:30 - 51:10 The Matrix Resurrections: 0:52:40 - END |
Fri, 24 December 2021
The cult has a couple gifts tucked under the tree this year and it comes courtesy of Cliff Twemlow's raw sexuality and Christopher Plummer's....raw sexuality? Cliffy T frolics and fucks and fights in GBH and Elliott Gould disregards his black currant jam in The Silent Partner! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:54:25 GBH: 0:55:55 - 1:38:40 The Silent Partner: 1:40:10 - END
Direct download: ep394-_A_Holly_Jolly_Twemlow_Christmas.mp3
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Thu, 16 December 2021
It's topsy turvy time on the cult this week with Jackie Chan dropping f bombs and Sam J Jones looking for love on a tow truck battlefield. First up Sam J Jones squares off against a comfortably sleazy Don Swaze in Driving Force and James Glickenhaus finds the sleazy frontier of Jackie Chan in The Protector! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:38:30 Driving Force: 0:40:00 - 1:02:40 Replicant: 1:04:10 - END
Direct download: ep393-_Bad_Boy_Jackie_Lover_Boy_Danny.mp3
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Thu, 9 December 2021
Whether government experiments on super cycles or cloning Jean Claude Van Damme, the Cult is on the case. First up Heather Thomas whispers sweet Einstein nothings into our ears in Cyclone and JCVD shows us his curiously horny face in Replicant! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:37:30 Cyclone: 0:39:00 - 1:14:15 Replicant: 1:15:45 - END |
Thu, 2 December 2021
It's the season of giving and receiving, so we're giving you Donnie Yen and you must receive Dean Cain. Dean Cain unearths a pharmaceutical conspiracy while chucking a football at a goon's nuts in Phase IV and Benny Chan gives us hell of a swansong with eternally young Donnie Yen and greasy Nicholas Tse in Raging Fire! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:33:50 Phase IV: 0:35:10 - 1:13:40 Raging Fire: 1:15:10 - END |
Sat, 27 November 2021
In this week's episode, the cult finds some grimey substances between their toes, scoop all of it, and then review it. David Heavener shows what it takes to save the children in Dragon Fury and a bug-eyed psycho gives salvation with spinkicks in the The Divine Enforcer! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 1:02:50 Dragon Fury: 1:04:10 - 1:35:00 The Divine Enforcer: 1:36:30 - END
Direct download: ep390-_Having_a_Nice_Breakfast_For_the_Children.mp3
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Thu, 18 November 2021
Two cult stalwarts return to the show to warm our loins this week as Cynthia Rothrock returns home to save her town from the villains of the Beavercreek Inn in China O'Brien and somehow some way Wings Hauser finds an actor that upstages him in Living to Die! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:27:55 China O'Brien: 29:25 - 1:03:00 Living to Die: 1:04:30 - END |
Thu, 11 November 2021
With the spooky season in the rearview mirror, we look to the past and the present for sweaty inspiration. Canada's got a drug and porn and boys watching porn problem in Drying Up the Streets and the macho meats slap into each other with Joe Carnahan's recently released Copshop! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:39:30 Drying Up the Streets: 41:00 - 1:14:20 Copshop: 1:15:50 - END |
Sun, 7 November 2021
Juuuuuust a bit outside the Halloween season but the Cult doesn't give a single solitary fuck about calendars or moons or common sense. We've got a triple feature of direct to video sequels and we get rolling with Jim Wynorski's typical nonsense horndog take with 976-EVIL 2, Tommy Lee Wallace brings Jon Bon Jovi to the party for reasons unknown in Vampires 2: Los Muertos, and then finally Scott Spiegel gets to play with bats and porn in From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:31:00 976-EVIL 2: 32:30 - 1:04:00 Vampires 2: Los Muertos: 1:05:30 - 1:41:45 From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money: 1:43:15 - END
Direct download: ep387-_Your_Favorite_Directors_Friends_Halloween_Special.mp3
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Thu, 28 October 2021
The cult grab's the dirty Halloween rag and wrings every last ounce of sleaze for your ear pleasures. First up is the early Cannon slasher parody(???) Hospital Massacre and Italy somehow sinks even further into documented levels of depravity in Arabella: Black Angel! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:46:45 Hospital Massacre: 48:15 - 1:23:30 Arabella: Black Angel: 1:25:00 - END |
Thu, 21 October 2021
The cult taps into its animal instincts this week as Don Dohler flexes that laser sound effect in Nightbeast and Costas Mandylor takes on a pack of African were-hyenas in....HYENAS! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:43:40 Nightbeast: 45:10 - 1:20:40 Hyenas: 1:22:10 - END
Direct download: ep385-_Beast_in_the_Streets_Giggles_in_the_Sheets.mp3
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Thu, 14 October 2021
Whether you're dreaming of Dick Miller or Peter Hooten, this episode has what you need. Billy Zane seduces Dick Miller in a dream in Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight and Peter Hooten saves a woman from her suicide picnic in Night Killer! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:40:30 Demon Knight: 42:00 - 1:17:30 Night Killer: 1:19:00 - END |
Thu, 7 October 2021
In this week's episodes we have two Chinese demons with two very different goals in mind. First up is Warhawk Tanzania vs a Chinese demon stumbling into New York's subway system in Devil's Express and next up is a Chinese demon who wants a cuddle and a touch of sorcery in The Rape After! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:46:20 Devil's Express: 47:50 - 1:16:30 The Rape After: 1:18:00 - END |
Mon, 27 September 2021
October is a state of mind in the Cult this week as we return from a short break to kick the spooky season off with the siren song of Lambearrrrr's pleathers in Beowulf(yes, again) and a granny does wrestling moves in....The Granny! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:43:55 Beowulf: 45:25 - 1:23:30 The Granny: 1:25:00 - END
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Thu, 16 September 2021
The bigotry runs thiiiiick this week as the last real men of Texas and jolly England crack some skulls. Scott Glenn and his 4 dollar haircut takes on William Forsythe in his best Gucci shirts in The Last Marshal and local street toughs captivate the minds of dipshits everywhere in Rise of the Footsoldier! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:49:00 The Last Marshal: 50:30 - 1:35:00 Rise of the Footsoldier: 1:36:30 - END
Direct download: Episode_381-_Rise_of_the_Grumpy_White_Boy.mp3
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Wed, 8 September 2021
With the summer in the rearview mirror, the cult goes straight to the frigid tundras of Alaska and Daneland by way of Iceland by way of Canada. Gerry Butz flops around on the beach in Beowulf & Grendel and Jon Voight and Eric Roberts shout at each other in bad accents on a cold ass train in Runaway Train! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:39:50 Beowulf & Grendel: 41:20 - 1:11:10 Runaway Train: 1:12:40 - END
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Wed, 1 September 2021
One of the true titans of the cult has left our sad, broken mortal realm and we do our darndest to give him just a little more loving. The dearly departed Sonny Chiba screams and breaths and squeals in The Executioner and Sonny lovingly applies baby oil to Hiroyuki Sanada in the whackadoodle Shogun's Ninja! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:35:00 The Executioner: 36:30 - 1:20:05 Shogun's Ninja: 1:21:55 - END
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Thu, 26 August 2021
The summer goes out on a sleazy note this week with the carny world of ancient Rome and the opulence of early 70s professional wrasslin. Jump in the station wagon and breathe in the fumes of Below the Belt, then Malcolm McDowell sticks his hand in Crisco for the glory of Rome in Caligula! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:36:40 Below the Belt: 38:10 - 1:10:35 Caligula: 1:12:05 - END
Direct download: ep378-_Little_Boots_the_Mexican_Spitfire.mp3
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Thu, 19 August 2021
Sometimes the Cult just has to loosen its belt, pour a cold one, and get into the girthy underbelly of crime cinema. Sidney Lumet tries to convince us Treat Williams is Italian in Prince of the City and Antonio Banderas makes noises at a yuppie Sly in Assassins! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:28:30 Prince of the City: 30:00 - 1:16:20 Assassins: 1:17:50 - END
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Thu, 12 August 2021
Whether it's making animals crazy or making everyone horny for Woody Harrelson, the heat index is off the charts and the Cult is soaking up the sweat. This week Leslie Nielsen whacks the bushes like a real alpha in Day of the Animals and Woody Harrelson knows exactly what he's doing in Palmetto! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:45:20 Day of the Animals: 46:50 - 1:24:30 Palmetto: 1:26:00 - END
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Thu, 5 August 2021
Sometimes you got cravings, cravings that can't be described or even defended. Sometimes you just need a pungent concoction of Henry Silva, Nick Cheung, Robert Forster, and a dash of delusion. This week Henry Silva spots a big one in Alligator and Nick Cheung hangs out in a hot air balloon in The Trough! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:28:45 Alligator: 30:15 - 1:11:25 The Trough: 1:12:55 - END
Direct download: ep375-_Nick_Blessed_the_Rains_Down_in_Africa.mp3
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Sun, 1 August 2021
With the recent passing of genre film legend William Smith, the cult got their best stinky wood for this funeral pyre and invited a psychotic robot police officer to the party. Because William would appreciate us breaking the rules, we brought in a late challenger with Smith settling into his comfy satanic jammies in Evil Altar, then Texas' best buff scientists take on a maniacal police robot in ROTOR, and then finally William Smith and Rod Taylor beat the shit out of each other in Darker Than Amber! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 1:01:10 Evil Altar: 1:02:40 - 1:22:35 ROTOR: 1:24:05 - 2:07:15 Darker Than Amber: 2:08:45 - END
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Fri, 23 July 2021
This week the cult takes a nice countryside ride through Mexico shooting at wild turkeys and roaming through the streets of Bulgaria, New York, America States of America. First up is the fever dream of the late 90s dtv cash grab renaissance in Bloodsport 4: The Dark Kumite and Sam Peckinpah finally crashes into these hallowed halls with the inimitable Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 00:27:15 Bloodsport 4: 0:28:45 - 1:05:45 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia: 1:07:15 - END
Direct download: ep373-_Bring_Me_Your_Number_1_USA_Cheeseburger.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:32pm EDT |
Sat, 17 July 2021
A very special weekend episode of the cult sees the Sasha Mitchell and Costas Mandylor charisma collision in Art Camacho's David DeFalco vanity picture turned Cyborg remake in Gangland! Then Bruce Willis' hair takes on mood ring properties in Striking Distance! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 00:25:00 Gangland: 0:25:00 - 1:09:10 Striking Distance: 1:10:40 - END
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Thu, 8 July 2021
The comfiest of comfort violence is on the menu this week as the yakuza go north, get buried neckdeep in snow and get menaced by the usual goons in Kinji Fukasaku's Hokuriku Proxy War and Frankie Chan asks out Yukari Oshima on a date and somehow this all leads to a chicken apocalypse in Outlaw Brothers! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 00:46:05 Hokuriku Proxy War: 0:47:35 - 1:28:40 Outlaw Brothers: 1:30:10 - END
Direct download: ep371-_Frankie_Says_the_Chickens_Must_Die.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:07pm EDT |
Thu, 1 July 2021
From the mouth of Quentin Tarantino and the tortured childhood of Mad Mel to the eyes of the Cult and to the holes in your ears. Backwoods thrillers have rarely seen more Charlie Daniels, crazy old men, or cruising on your motorbike in Whiskey Mountain and Mel takes Scottish history brains it with a nunchuk in Braveheart! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 00:23:40 Whiskey Mountain: 0:25:10 - 54:20 Braveheart: 55:50 - END
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Thu, 24 June 2021
Europe is up to some wild ass shit this week to fulfill all your fascist and bourgeois desires. First up Jorge Grau is a terrible person doing terrible things in Code of Hunting and we revisit Brotherhood of the Wolf to see if stands as tall as the hills of Monica Bellucci! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 00:43:50 Code of Hunting: 0:45:20 - 1:15:00 Brotherhood of the Wolf: 1:16:30 - END
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Thu, 17 June 2021
From wilderness messiahs to gruel sculptors, this episode has it all! Chuck Norris wears his fringey best while his brother or son whatever films him running for a couple days in Forest Warrior and Christopher Walken swings his dick in all our faces as he menaces a kid into doing his job in All-American Murder! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 00:34:40 Forest Warrior: 0:36:10 - 1:16:40 All-American Murder: 1:18:10 - END
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Thu, 10 June 2021
Sometimes you just want to watch an epic police corruption expose from Japan with Confessions of a Dog and sometimes you want to see Gary Daniels wear baggy clothes and jump away from explosions in Recoil. Either way, the Cult has got you covered sports fans! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 00:24:30 Confessions of a Dog: 0:24:30 - 0:57:00 Recoil: 0:58:30 - END
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Thu, 3 June 2021
The sleaze comes in many shapes and forms and viscosities this week as Nicholas Worth lifts weights and cries in our face in Don't Answer the Phone and Frankie Zags makes Oliver Reed cry in The Revenger! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 00:38:00 The Revenger: 0:39:30 - 1:17:30 Don't Answer the Phone: 1:19:00 - END
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Thu, 27 May 2021
An episode for each day of the sweaty calendar and to commemorate this bit of unhealthy indulgence comes the unhealthy indulgence of John Woo inspiration and Chucky Naps monologues in Hard Justice and the inimitable indulgence of a Zack Snyder zombie movie in Army of the Dead! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 00:30:10 Hard Justice: 0:31:40 - 1:05:50 Army of the Dead: 1:07:20 - END
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Thu, 20 May 2021
The pungent musky of dorky French perversion and faux hawks wafts through the halls of the cult this week. Tawny Kitaen finds ways to avoid red butt depressions in Gwendoline and Vincent D'Onofrio feeds Val Kilmer some brains in The Salton Sea! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 00:42:10 Gwendoline: 0:43:40 - 1:22:10 The Salton Sea: 1:23:40 - END
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Thu, 13 May 2021
Nostalgia is a fantastic eugenic drug this week as Jacob's subconscious gets probed and tickled. Martin Campbell tries to convince us he didn't make a Himalayan Final Destination sequel in Vertical Limit and Corey Haim makes us feel real good shimmying down the boardwalk in Prayer of the Rollerboys! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 00:38:50 Vertical Limit: 0:40:10 - 1:24:40 Prayer of the Rollerboys: 1:26:10 - END
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Fri, 7 May 2021
This week CDR brings a heapin', humpin', helpin' of dung to the show with a double whammy of fetid proportions! We kick things off with Mr. Miyagi recruiting milquetoast late night "king" Jay Leno to help sell out his own people in the Buddy Cop nightmare, Collision Course (1989). Then we head on down to Crawfish town to witness the ultimate love triangle between Judge Reinhold's horrible Creole accent, Nicolas Cage's weird Japanese fan-style mullet and Erika Anderson's merkin in Zandalee (1991). As you'd probably expect, stuff gets weird.
Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 0:00:00 - 00:33:00 Collision Course: 0:34:00 - 1:05:00 Zandalee: 1:06:00 - END
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Thu, 29 April 2021
This week's episode gets into a multi-realm round of machismo to varying degrees of dorkiness and pure daddy domination. 2021's Mortal Kombat is the adaptation du jour and put our laser eyeballs on that krusty thing before diving dick first into Walter Hill's macho meatball mama Extreme Prejudice! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 00:00:00 - 00:31:15 Mortal Kombat: 00:32:45 - 1:19:40 Extreme Prejudice: 1:21:10 - END |
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