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Join host Kent Hill as he sits down with Paul MacDonald, the Scottish schoolboy whose childhood obsession with Highlander led him to become a master swordsmith and the official blade-maker for the new Hollywood remake...

Step into a tale that unfolds like a beautiful lie: a grieving woman, a magnetic stranger, and a romance that peels back layer after layer until the heart of darkness is revealed. In this episode we celebrate Cruel Love...

When the CGI giants sleep, a handful of stubborn artists crawled back into the dungeon to resurrect a blood‑stained kind of fantasy. In this episode Kent Hill sits down with Richard Pate — the unforgettable, self‑styled...

Step behind the velvet ropes with Matthew "Matty" Greenberg — the mind behind Reign of Fire, 1408 and Pet Sematary — as he tells the story of a life lived inside Hollywood’s beautiful madness. Kent and Matty trade...

Step into a late-night conversation where two friends-turned-filmmakers unpack how a quiet, bullied teenager became the centerpiece of a fiercely original horror film. On this episode, Cinema Yugen welcomes back Quinton...

Step into a torchlit kingdom where ambition becomes a plague and a single gaze can summon destiny. In this episode, host Kent Hill sits down with Megan Tremethick — the hypnotic queen at the heart of The Reign of Queen...

G'day, Earthlings — a warning siren sounds and the aliens have arrived. In this episode, we ride shotgun with Scott Bateman , the dry-humored auteur behind the cult phenomenon 5000 Space Aliens, as he unveils a new...

Lock the doors and pull up a chair: this episode peels back the wallpaper on Rich Interior Lives , a claustrophobic, sweaty indie thriller that starts with an awkward car ride and detonates into the dinner party from...

The sky goes dark, the sirens wail, and Anthony C. Ferrante is right in the middle of the storm — not by accident but by design. This episode drops you into the ragged, electric world that forged Sharknado : a...

Having known Alexander Nevsky now for nearly a decade, I know him to be a perfectionist for quality indie action cinema. But though he may not appear in Prey of Wrath, his professional fingerprints are all over it as he...

Step into a tense, shadowed Oregon town where a man named Jake tries to outrun his past—only to be pulled into a private investigation that unravels his grip on reality. In this episode, filmmaker and actor Patrick D...

Smoke and sun paint the town into legend as a lone dark man follows a trail of footsteps across broken boards and barren streets. In a half-ruined room of maps and dried blood he finds the echoes of a last hope, then...

Kent Hill might have been a poet in another life, but here he crafts the whispered reason a man finally broke. Burt Benton narrates the landscape, a world stripped bare by violence, one cold-eyed killer rides a volcanic...

In a sleepy North Queensland town, a young geology enthusiast sees a dormant mountain stir while everyone else looks the other way. When the volcano finally blows, lava, collapse and sentimental chaos sweep through an...

Board Cinema Yugen for a crackling time with Ozploitation icon Roger Ward , who spills dirty, funny and unforgettable stories from Mad Max, Man From Hong Kong and the riotous sets of 1970s–80s Australian cinema. He...