Cult Of Muscle!!!!!!!!

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

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

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

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

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

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  

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

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

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/peop

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

  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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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