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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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Lifting: 0:00:00 - 00:46:05

Hokuriku Proxy War: 0:47:35 - 1:28:40 

Outlaw Brothers: 1:30:10 - END