Cult Of Muscle!!!!!!!!

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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