Cult Of Muscle!!!!!!!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  

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