CinaCult Podcast

CinaCult is BACK! After a long hiatus, Lucas and Cordell are back with an interesting concept for this episode. Cartoons. We all watched them, we all loved them. And today we're gonna share our top 20 cartoons from our childhood (and Cordell's insane Honorable Mentions list) From Fox Kids and Kids WB, Disney, Nickelodeon, PBS Kids, Cartoon Network and more! Join us as we go heavy on nostal...

*NOTE: There are some audio issues in this episode.* We're back with a Lucas pick and he's taking us back to the film that launched the career of Jean Claude Van Damm with 1988's Bloodsport ! Frank Dux is on a personal mission to honor his sensei and win the Kumite, a competition for the best fighters to prove who is the ultimate champion. Chased by two army CID's ordered to bring...

The commercial success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit proved that the combination of live action and animation could be profitable. Sure Cool World failed to capture the success but in 1996, another attempt was made in the form of Space Jam ! When a group of aliens called Nerdlucks steal the talent of pro NBA players to challenge the Looney Tunes, becoming the intimidating Monstars, The Tunes call upo...

"Good evening Clarice" With those chilling words, Anthony Hopkins endeared himself into the hearts of movie goers as the charismatic but frightening Dr. Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter in 1991's Oscar winning epic The Silence of the Lambs . FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is a woman in a man's world. Determined to prove herself, she finds herself chosen to go...

Hello Cinacultists! We apologize for the long silence as the hosts have undergone some life changes recently but we are slowly getting back to our format with another "shoot the shit" episode. We talk NECA, Trick or Treat Studios, What You've Been Watching and we remember some iconic stars in memorandum. Next time we will return with Silence of the Lambs! Music: Nothing's Gonna S...

Happy New Years everyone! As we go into 2025, Lucas and Cordell decide to do another "Shoot the Sh*t" episode. Join us as we discuss our Christmas, What We've Been Watching, Movie Releases of 2025 and a brief trip down memory lane of our favorite Christmas gifts from childhood. We look forward to spending 2025 with you all again when we come back in Episode 62 with a review of Anthony Hopkins in S...

Merry Christmas and Winter Solstice Cinacultists! Lucas and Cordell wrap up the 2024 year with our review of a hidden gem horror thriller from 1980 when slasher were in their infancy. We're talking Christmas Evil ! Harry has a rough life. His coworkers mock him, his brother thinks he's a problem and and no one understands his tune for the Christmas holiday. This year however, Harry snaps. He belie...

Jim Henson is remembered as a visionary of children's entertainment. From the iconic Muppets to Sesame Street to the Ninja Turtle suits, he left a mark on generations with his work. Following his death, his studio continued to honor his work starting with today's review of 1992's Christmas classic: A Muppet's Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine) is a Christmas hating pariah in London....

When a crime wave hit New York, Channel 3 reporter April O'Neill is on the case. But she's gonna need help from 4 talking mutated turtles-Michelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello and Raphael-to battle Shredder and his Foot Clan. Along with Casey Jones, the turtles are determined to save their rat sensei Splinter, beat the Shredder and make it home in time for pizza in this childhood 90's classic! Does th...

In 1987, the box office was dominated by the slashers. Freddy was taking on the Dream Warriors, Jason fought a telekinetic and Michael Myers was one year away from returning. But audiences were soon introduced to a new horror icon. One born of the mind of author Clive Barker in the form of Pinhead, The Hell Priest and his gang of Cenobites in the extreme, body-horror that was Hellraiser . Julia Co...

Jason is back!...or is he? Following the massive success of The Final Chapter , Paramount was eager to crank out more Jason to bring in the big bucks bringing us to today's review of 1985's A New Beginning. Five years after killing Jason Voorhees, Tommy Jarvis is a broken mute sent to Pinhurst Halfway House. There he meets colorful characters like Reggie "The Reckless", loner Vio...

The wrong arm of the law is back! After being left for dead at the bottom of the Hudson, Matt Cordell (Z'Dar) returns to police the streets once more in Bill Lustig's 1990 sequel Maniac Cop 2 Cordell is back and this time, he's up against Detective Sean McKinney (Robert Davi) and head shrink Susan Riley (Claudia Christian) while making friends with serial killer Steven Turkell (Leo Ros...

Frank Henenlotter. The man who terrorized us with Basket Case and Brain Damage, gives us this modern (and hilarious) retelling of the classic Mary Shelly story of Frankenstein in 1990's Frankenhooker ! Jeffery is having a bad day. First his fiancé Elizabeth is turned into a tossed "human salad" by a lawnmower. Now the storm he needs to bring her back is 2 days out and he doesn't...

Who will survive? And what will be left of them? When Sally Hardesty, her brother and 3 friends take a trip to visit the old Hardesty farm, they become the victims of a deranged family of ex slaughterhouse workers who've taken to getting their meat from humans to survive. 50 years ago, Tobe Hooper introduced America to the cannibalistic Sawyers in his controversial 1974 hit, The Texas Chainsaw...

The 80's were a time of crazes where popular toy lines became Saturday morning kid's cartoons. GI Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Transformers became 80's staples of childhood. Joining them came Masters of the Universe , a world were a barbarian like hero named He-Man and his friends defended the mystical Castle Grayskull from the sadistic Skeletor and his army of evil. In comes...

The long kept secrets of ninjitsu from the East now come to the West....at least that what was promised in 1985's American Ninja . Michael Dudikoff is Joe Armstrong, an amnesiac loner in the US Marines who finds himself ostracized and framed for theft of military property. His only allies are Patricia Hickock, daughter of the base commander and his captain Curtis Jackson. His enemies: corrupt...

CinaCult is back! And we are tackling our first ever animated film with our review of the 1985 box office bomb turned cult classic: Walt Disney's The Black Cauldron ! Part of the Disney Dark Age and based on the 5 book "Chronicles of Prydain" series, the movie follows Taran, a young pig-keeper who dreams of becoming a heroic warrior. When his oracle pig Hen Wen is hunted by the ruthl...

Eric Draven and his fiancé Shelly are murdered on Devil's Night. One year later, a mystical crow (or raven actually) brings Eric back as he becomes an avenging angel, hunting the freaks responsible that fateful night. Based on a dark, gritty comic book from James O'Barr, who'd recently lost his fiancé, The Crow seemed like it might be just another adaption thriller by a major studio. H...

Following our talk on the original trilogy, we are back to discuss Lucas' follow up prequel trilogy about Luke's father Anakin, released between 1999 to 2005 made up of The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones & Revenge of the Sith. While not as universally beloved as the OG films, these movies have found their own love with a new generation. Anakin Skywalker is only nine when Jedi Mas...

The Force is strong with us today folks as we return to talk STAR WARS! Specifically for this week the original three films created by George Lucas from 1977 to 1983 made of of Star Wars (later A New Hope ), The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi . Luke Skywalker is a young man who finds himself at the center of a galactic civil war between the tyrannical Galactic Empire and the freedom...

Coming off the success of Halloween, John Carpenter wasted no time with his next story of evil, this time taking the form of a mysterious fog with a deadly secret inside in 1980's The Fog The sleepy town of Antonio Bay is preparing to celebrate its 100 years. But a mysterious fog soon arrives off the coast and people begin to die and experience strange occurrences. Caught up in all of this is...

Stay tuned after the show for big breasted girls going to the beach! In 1978 while Michael Myers terrorized Haddonfield, the rest of the nation was under attack in the comedy-horror Attack of the Killer Tomatoes . Fast forward a decade later and the watery veggifruits once again rear their red in Return of the Killer Tomatoes with George Clooney in an early role as well as Repossessed 's Antho...

Music in episode "Witchy Woman" by The Eagles. All rights reserved. Join Lucas and Cordell as we bewitch ourselves in the 2016 movie "The Love Witch" Does this movie have undertones of empowerment or is our protagonist just losing it? Listen today!

1974: the world was shocked by the brutality of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre . 1980: the world is enamored with the slasher with Friday the 13th . So what do you get when you combine those two? 1982's Spanish-American slasher/giallio Pieces , a movie that put gore at the forefront long before Saw . Someone is carving up co-ed girls on campus with a large chainsaw and stealing...

GAME OVER! We are BACK listeners with a redo of a "lost episode" with this weeks review of 1994's Street Fighter- a movie that should have worked considering it's casting but failed to impress audience's upon release. When the evil mad M. Bison (Raul Julia of Addams Family fame) kidnaps hostages and demands a 20 billion ransom for their return, the world looks to Col. Guile (...