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The Torchy’s boys are back and they are hitting Chicago but doing it the Solviet way. We join Arnold Schwarzenegger who is thrust from his homeland and into the windy city to get the psycho who killed his partner and is threatening to take his drug ring to both shores. Did I mention he has to team up with a meatball Chicago cop played by Jim Belushi. Join us as we discuss this delightful culture clash with that Walter Hill flavor that we know and love. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Cinema Beef is back to give you a morsel of the chicken persuasion. Cameron and Gary discuss Monte Hellman’s controversial tale of one man’s passion for the fowl in Cockfighter from 1974. Warren Oates stars as Frank who is a mute who’s only motivation is his next hustle and this brutal sport that pits rooster vs. rooster. We will discuss this great character study with an unfortunate penchant for animal cruelty. If you are sensitive about this subject, we apologize ahead of time. The beef is back! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Torchy’s boys are going south of the border to find a good woman and possibly walk away rich. In this edition, Nick Nolte plays a Texas Ranger torn between the woman he loves and a ruthless drug dealer and old friend who has eyes for her as well. In the meantime, a group of mercenaries are after the drug loot and possibly saving American freedoms. Maybe. This has a stacked cast that also includes Powers Boothe, Clancy Brown and Micheal Ironside. It’s Extreme Prejudice from 1987. It’s a fun one. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The boys are back and we are traveling with just our suitcases and guitars to learn some Delta blues the hard way. When bright eyed musician Eugene Martone gets the hankering for looking for last tune of Robert Johnson, he enlists an aging blues man and they hit the road to find it. Lessons are learned and motives are shown that have connections to old scratch himself. Ralph Macchio, Jon Seneca and Jamie Gertz star in Crossroads from 1986. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It’s Kyle’s pick this time around and he picked a real winner. Just think if you took the movie within a movie in Demons and mixed it with The Goonies. That’s Lamberto Bava’s Graveyard Disturbance in a nutshell. Join these crazy kids as they search for hidden treasure whilst meeting all kinds of wild beings along the way. Watch with us with the link provided. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Beefaverasry is back with 3 reviews that include two more entries in the Christopher Guest universe. We are joined by special guests Mr. Venom and Bo Ransdell for Best in Show and Smokeshow Scott Crawford joins us for A Mighty Wind. Also, look for a new Crippled Theater featuring Ricky Morgan and Mr. No Legs. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Two Drink crew round on back to the planet Gor for a second time to talk through Outlaw Of Gor from 1987. When our hero is summoned back to Gor, his unassuming friend and him are framed for murder and this only leads them on uneventful adventures. It is fortified with at least 40 percent Jack Palance so there’s that. Join us next time for the Hong Kong robocop rip off Robotrix. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

With a cast of many, we celebrate the 8th year of the Beef with extra large helpings of Christopher Guest and some tasty extras. Part one includes guests Mr. Venom, Jeffrey X Martin and Ricky Morgan. https://youtu.be/-PhvpGuycaE https://youtu.be/doMVmLpbJec ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Torchy’s boys fall into some money and tackle this Richard Pryor jam. The skinny is a minor league pitcher falls into a bunch of money but there is a catch involved. He has to spend it all in 30 days with nothing left. John Candy, Pat Hingle and a whole slew of faces you know show up in this. Up next, we go on the road with Lightning Boy with Crossroads. cast series Cinema Beef and Last Call at Torchy's ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The return of Two Drink brings you a tale of high adventure. Well. Less adventure with more hairy men. When a college professor gets ahold of an artifact, it transports him to the planet Gor. A land where shoulder pads are everywhere and the headgear is bonkers. The prof is tasked to become one of the brave warriors so they can recover a glowing rock that was stolen by Ollie Reed and his crew. Genre legends Paul Smith, Jack Palance (for 2 minutes) and douche bag Arnold Vosloo shine in this sword and sandal turd. Watch with us with the link below! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Last Call At Torchy’s #7 : Streets Of FireThe Torchy’s boys are back to discuss a favorite of Gary’s but a first time watch for one of us with the motor-driven, leather clad, two-fisted rock and roll fable from Streets Of Fire from 1984. This tells the tale of Tom Cody (Michael Pare) who is an ex-soldier who is called back home to rescue his ex-girlfriend (Diane Lane) when she is kidnapped by The Bombers who are a ruthless biker gang led by Raven Shaddock. (Willem Dafoe) Along with her shady manager (Rick Moranis) and a street smart mercenary (Amy Madigan), they shoot and burn their way through to make it home for a final showdown. We talk about many things including Muppets on this edition that will have you sweating buckets without being hot. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Welcome to the world of Yor. Where massive lizards bite, the men are extra hairy and laser blasts are a thing because aliens………This is just the thing to bring Two Drink back to form. Gary is joined by Cameron Scott and Willis Wheeler to watch Reb Brown slay beasts and neanderthals alike in this strange but enjoyable epic. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We are a literal chain of fools on the latest edition. Iris and Gary are joined by Jerry Cortez aka Mr. Venom to discuss two films where prisoners are on the run and chained together. When two inmates escape from a prison transport, they are forced to fight opposition and their own racial tensions. Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis star in The Defiant Ones. Then, Pam Grier and Margaret Markov make a run from their abusive and very hot prison digs to plot against a slimy pimp/drug kingpin and possibly start a revolution. We get two days in the hotbox with our review of Black Mama, White Mama from 1973. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Torchy’s boys head to California for this installment when we cover the flick that boomed the buddy cop genre into high gear with 48 Hours. Nick Nolte is a hard nosed cop who’s dealing with two escaped baddies. He needs the help of Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy) to find these cop killers and have some animosity and laughs along the way. This film brings back Walter Hill alums James Remar, Sonny Landham, Peter Jason and Brion James back into the fold. The hits and the gunfire are aplenty in this gem. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Gary and special guests Lee Russell, Leah Hardy and Cameron Scott discuss two homage films…..call em ripoffs of the most popular possesion film that most people love but a majority of the panel hates. They are aping The Exorcist as we cover Abby and Beyond The Door both from the great year of 1974. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Beefers are back and are gonna make a withdrawal from the bank of paranoia and deception with these two features. Iris and Gary are joined by Mike White of The Projection Booth to discuss two films about finding large sums of dirty money and the consequences of taking it. In A Simple Plan, two brothers and their buddy find a duffle bag full of loot whilst on a hunt. Mistrust, desperation and death all become a factor in the gem starring Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton and some other greats in this underseen Sam Raimi classic. Then, The Coen Brothers give us one of their best efforts with Josh Brolin being persued by a most menacing Javier Bardem over a large sum of money and just general integrity. You know because a psychopath has to have integrity. Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson and some other wonderful actors star in No Country For Old Men. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Join Gary and Iris for some stale nog or possibly an Irish coffee while we discuss two films in which two delinquents become unlikely stars in their respective or disrespectful forms of media only to fall from mediocrity. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Change out of your civies and load up your blanks. The Torchy’s boys are hitting the swamps of Louisiana with Jamie Sammons of Horror In The House Of Sammons to discuss Southern Comfort from 1981. When a group of National Guardsmen go on some tactical maneuvers in the backwoods of Louisiana, they start to mess with the natural order of things and piss off some locals. They start getting picked off one by one fighting hypothermia, hillbilly trap-fu and ace backwoods shooters. Look for our bonus episode coming Tuesday on the 1971 classic Deliverance. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We are back in the fires of the boiler room once again with two installments of this hit anthology series. In Missing Persons, a girl with a heavy past is forced to babysit two brats while fighting the urge to eat everything in the house including the brats. This leads to a story about the brats’ father wanting a brand new life following an auto wreck. In The Light At The End Of The Tunnel, a loser that is afraid of the dark is forced into a job in the sewer leading into a story about a sleazy store owner forced to live his own nightmare. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Beef crew are back with Gary, Suzanne, Iris and special guest Derek Borgeois to throw on our parkas and go out into the cold for two features that include shapeshifters that brave the elements to terrorize people in Horror Express starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and John Carpenter’s The Thing featuring Kurt Russell, Keith David and Wilford Brimley. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Derek, Gary and special guest Suzanne call in some favors and some demons and hitch a ride to Connecticut to cover Tim Burton’s classic tale of loss and possession with 1988’s Beetlejuice. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The gang from Torchy’s mount up with the James/Younger Gang for Walter Hill’s horse abusing, saloon slinging story of brotherly love with The Long Riders from 1980. This tells the tale of end of the gang where they are dodging the law, evading those pesky Pinkertons and chasing that sweet dream. And the women. Yes the women. It has an all star cast including Stacy and James Keach, Robert and Keith Carradine, Nicolas and Christopher Guest and Dennis and Randy Quaid. Not to mention some Walter Hill regulars and some veteran western actors. W/ Lee Russell, Cameron Scott and Gary Hill. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Iris and Gary have gone back to the butcher shop and have turned up the cold to bring you two reviews featuring the mythical frozen creature known as the yeti. We do that with a yeti stalking college students with Shriek of the Mutilated and with an Italian/Canadian King Kong rip off being Yeti : Giant Of The 20th Century ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Day 21 is here and I am going back to the UK again. This time a scientist with a deadly secret foils Peter Cushing while men are dying all around him. How are they dying? You guessed it. A giant, shapeshifting moth person! It is much more dull than it sounds. Look for me again tomorrow with Man Beast! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hey beefers! What happens when I get behind? You get a whole buffet of beastly reviews featuring an array of baddies including Satan himself. This episode has alien devices, deadly animals, transforming cannibals and more camp than you can handle. Guest curators include Dave James Parker, Cort Psyops, Neil Lemoi, Derek Bourgeois, Jerry Herring and Jerry Cortes. Sink your teeth into 90 minutes of fun and terror! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hey Legion people! Sorry I was a away for a few days but here’s a series of mini reviews including spoiler free reviews of the first episodes of the brand new Chucky and Day of the Dead series from me and one king sized one from Gav Hoare of The Podcast On Haunted Hill. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Day 10 goes to the zoo with special guest Dan Bone of The Podcast On Haunted Hill carrying the feed bag on this one. What happens when PCP gets into the water supply at a zoo? Mass carnage all over the streets. YOu get all this and more in Wild Beasts from 1984. Look for another solo review tomorrow from me covering The Beast In The Cellar. Watch Wild Beasts with the link below. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Day 9 takes us down south to Mexico to find the mysterious but adorable Beast Of Hollow Mountain. When a cattle rancher is losing his steer, a mysterious beast that lives in a mountain is the prime suspect. When he reveals himself, it is a fight to the finish with the beast with some wild results. You get ranching politics, a love triangle and some decent animation for the time in the feature. Look tomorrow for Dan Bone’s review of Wild Beasts from 1985. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Join RJ MacReady as he hits the slopes for this creature feature. When snow bunnies are getting killed by an unknown force, It’s up to character actors Bo Svenson, Clint Walker and Yvette Mimieux to hunt the beast and take him out. Look for me with another solo review tomorrow with The Beast Of Hollow Mountain. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Day 7 takes us to England for a real thinker. When a mysterious orb has landed on Earth from an undisclosed location, it is promptly picked up by UK scientists and they are baffled early. Once it hatches and escapes, it starts to abduct 200 of England’s women for it’s experiments. Decent film featuring some great character actors. Check it out with the YouTube link below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHRHc1Lvd9Y ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Day 6 brings a lizard beast that predates the big guy that doesn’t need mentioning. I hear he’s from Tokyo or something. Donnie Rings has chosen the Harryhausen effects driven The Beast From 20000 Fathoms. When a creature makes himself known from the depths of the earth, everyone is stymied with boat attacks and mysterious accidents. Our creature moves into the city in this stop motion spectacle. See you all again with something from yours truly on Day 7! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Day five brings us another guest being Rik Morgan from the Hail Ming Power Hour amongst others. He picked this delightful gem. When a group of people are shipwrecked in the year 1920, they are greeted by acid baths and some gnarly looking natives in the form of cabbage patch dolls from hell. Had a great time listening to this and I hope you do too. Look for the YouTube link below. See you all again in day 6! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_bNcy03Ww&t=100s ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Day 4 brings us one of the great bad movies of all time. Or is it? It’s The Beast Of Yucca Flats featuring the great former Swedish wrestler/actor in the titular role as a rogue Russian scientist who goes on the run, gets blasted by nuclear radiation and wanders the desert looking for people to strangle. Simple plot for a very simple film. We’ll see you all again for day 5!!!!! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Day 3 is here and we have our first guest curator of the 31 Days of Howling Beast. Jeffery X Martin has been tasked to cover The Beast That Killed Women. Not much of a plot here. There’s a gorilla who’s attacking young nudists in Florida. Police are baffled, tops are non existent…….you get the gist. This is just the first of many guests on this run but this one is pretty great. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Day two tells the tale of greed, desire and murderous monsters yearning for fame and blood. That’s what you get with Beast Mode. When an actor is severely injured, they find a double to replace him. Almost. This kid has some scars to clear up and with the help of a miracle cure, it does and with severe consequences. This cream brings out the worst in it’s user with monstrous and murderous results. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Welcome to our monthlong celebration of schlock. There will be lizards, yetis, devils and everything in-between with these 31 days. Let’s start with some high class cinema with the Don Dohler classic NightBeast from 1982. When his space ship is dinged by asteroids, our titular character is crash landed to earth and he is angry. Armed with a man dusting ray gun, claws and a gnarly overbite, he defies and defiles anyone that gets in his way. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Join Suzanne, Derek and Gary to celebrate the tiny dynamo known as Darla who recently has made her trip to the great beyond. We do that by sometimes talking about and watching The Pack from 1977 starring Joe Don Baker. There are some strange occurances around a small island town and all points are leading to a pack of angry dogs that were abandoned. Nobody is safe from these abused pups. Let’s see who’s side you’re on in The Pack!Rest easy, baby girl. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Alright, boppers. The Torchy’s crew are equipped for violence and survival with Walter Hill’s third effort being the action, gang infused The Warriors from 1979. After an effort to unite the major gangs of the five boroughs, that live bunch from Coney Island are blamed for the murder of the ringleader. They are on the run dodging trouble while busting heads with their goal of making it home alive. W/ Lee Russell, Cameron Scott and Gary HillLinksThey Must Be Destroyed On Sighthttps://tmbdos.podbean.com/Cinema Degenerationhttps://cinemadegeneration.podbean.com/The Projection Booth Warriors Episodehttps://www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2011/06/episode-17-warriors-1979.html?m=1 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Do you like Blood From The Core? Here is bonus episode for the free feed to entice you all to join up with the Legion Patreon. We are joined by Suzanne for this little slice of sleaze with Alfred Sole’s Alice Sweet Alice. When a small child is brutally murdered on the day of her first communion, her jealous sister is the prime suspect. Is she mental? What is with the padre being a little too chummy? What will become of the sleazy neighbors cats once they have a thirst for human blood? Find out on this raucous edition of Blood From The Core straight out of Jersey! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The Two Drink Crew is back from hell and are feeling frisky to discuss this classic that could be better than it’s predecessor. When free wheeling Mary Lou scorns her boyfriend on prom night, his prank causes her to catch fire. When her vengeful spirit is released on a young and chaste girl, hilarity and incest run wild with outrageous results in this amazing sequel. The panel includes Gary Hill, Derek Bougious and Cameron Scott. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Gary and Iris are traveling on this one. We have been vaxxed but we are feeling slightly aglow. Could it be radiation? We are back to discuss two films where radiation makes people insanely violent. When a scientist’s plane lands, the people inside start a flurry of violence that spreads all over the city and all places in between in Umberto Lenzi’s Nightmare City. Then, a chemical spill causes the inhabitants of an agricultural research lab to become infused with blisters and violent tendencies in Warning Sign. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Bored on a Friday night? Looking for somewhere to have some fun? Why not hang with the Beef gang with two jams where young people play where they shouldn’t be playing. Because you know. Zombies. When a group of hippies decide to go play with a resurrection spell that they think is a joke, they bring forth the actual undead in Bob Clark’s Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things. Then, punks playing in a cemetery run afoul of zombies and a kick ass soundtrack in Dan O’ Bannon’s 1985 classic The Return Of The Living Dead. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

After festering in the boiling room for a short time, the Elm Street kids are burning and dreaming of mediocrity once again. We’re nearing the end of season one of the show and we’ve hit Krueger bedrock with two episodes that sort of work for us. In Love Stinks, a guy with commitment issues loses love, gains a stalker and a whole lot more. This is paired with a second half (like they do) that includes Jeffery Combs as sadistic pizza restaurant manager with a new secret ingredient. In the The Art Of Death, a lovelorn artist falls in love all while his creation is coming off the page and into the real world and causing havoc. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The regulars from Torchy’s are back for another round with Walter Hill’s sophomore effort The Driver. This stars Ryan O’Neal as a wheelman for hire who’s never been caught and Bruce Dern as The Detective hot on his heels who will go to any length to get his man. We discuss going against type, the film’s influence on the modern action film and “failed” attempts at the perfect car chase. W/ Lee Russell, Cameron Scott and Gary Hill. Special thanks to Peter Pedro Osmond for the Torchy’s art and Jeffery X Martin for mixing our theme. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The beefers are back and Gary is green with glee. Emerald green that is. He almost had to fly solo because his co-hosts were on location in Canada learning about the wonders of bagged milk. He had to get some help in the form of “Lady” Leah Hardy from They Must Be Destroyed On Sight Podcast to travel into the storm and to the land of Oz with the Motown infused The Wiz and the trippy but “child friendly” Return To Oz. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hey, Legionaires and other ruffians! Come one and come quick like the star of the first subject of a brand new thing. This is Last Call At Torchy’s. It is a show in which Lee Russell (They MUST Be Destroyed On Sight!) Cameron Scott (Cineme Degeneration) and Gary Hill (Cinema Beef/Two Drink Minimum Commentaries/Blood From The Core) cover the catalog of a real Renaissance man of cinema, Mr. Walter Hill. For our first outing, we lace up our gloves with some heavy hitters including Charles Bronson, Strother Martin and James Coburn for Hard Times 1975. It tells the story of Chaney who is a traveler who packs a whallop who ends up in depression-era New Orleans. Along with his hustlers Poe and Speed, he punches his way to the top of the underground fighting game in The Big Easy. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Iris, Suzanne and Gary are joined by Jeffery X Martin of Kiss The Goat for who guessed it……satanic pact movies! We cover the plaster casting, blue ink baptizing and ivory tickling The Mephisto Waltz. Then, we kiss the ring of out dark overlord with The Legacy. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Come with us to a place where violence runs rampant and your own personal freedoms may be at stake. Well…..there’s that and two plucky cops who infiltrate an underground fight ring and get way too into it. Give us a rock and roll and join us in our lands of personal freedoms and join us for Firepower featuring Australian wunderkind Gary Daniels, that guy that played Dutch in The Karate Kid aka Chad McQueen and the god of destrucity Jim Hellwig aka The Ultimate Warrior. We go through multiple weapons and subplots with myself, Jeffery X Martin and Cameron Scott. Enjoy and watch along with us with the YouTube link provided. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Saddle up, Beefers. We’re gonna take you on a fun and possibly uncomfortable ride. We are covering two somewhat controversial films where the sheriff is inserted into bad towns where they are not accepted. You know. Because they’re controversial. We are doing Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles and The Boss both from 1974. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Gary and Cameron are joined by rock n roller and fellow caster Ricky Morgan to chat about those pesky aliens that just want to pick up the pieces after abducting our great fathers. When a boy’s long missing father resurfaces, he makes a bond with his son that will literally change him forever. In the extra terrestrial sense. It’s weird. It’s wacky. It’s rapey. It’s Xtro from 1982. Watch along with us from the YouTube link provided. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3iTk0xCyao ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★