Kino Royale

Kino Royale is a podcast for those who like their cinema dark, hosted by the Film Lady — a Russian émigré of dubious royal lineage, residing in Australia. Expect horror, horror-adjacent, and the occasional genre detour, alongside book-to-screen explorations when a story demands it.

Kino Royale is a tv podcast hosted by Film Lady, with 18 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #18

  Ep 18: Carrie - Part 1 - Novel by Stephen King (1974 )

  Aug 17, 20262h 36mS1

  This is part 1 of Carrie saga, ‘ Blood Sport ’, where we dissect the OG novel by SK. Expect scary spoilers, deep dives & terrifying tangents! In part 2 (out soon!), ‘ Prom Night ’, we follow Brian de Palma to the bloody school dance in his 1976 movie. In BONUS part 3 , ‘ Wreckage ’, we peek behind the curtain to look at earlier versions of Carrie in the Monsters in the Archives. So, stash some sanitary products from the bathroom vending machine, PLUG IT UP & enjoy this bloody ride! CW : like all of my eps, this is an explicit episode which is targeted at adults. It is labelled accordingly on your pod platforms with *E* symbol. However, if you’re listening on my website - take care of yourselves & your fam first! Please go through the triggers below before jumping in! TW : blood, menstruation, trauma, parental abuse towards their children, bullying, violence, school systems, sexual assault, religious mania. Cold Open: from Monsters in the Archives Music - CC BY- Music Archive: Tiga Maine - Tiga Maine - Uhamba Nami (ft. Bhlaklyn & Lady Kay) Grumplefunk - Questions Pufino - Vibing (Chill Lofi Royalty Free Music) Julia Felix - The Topography of Metaphysics & Actuality Ethos - Forever Ending Mr Smith - Harmonics and the Night Equipment: JBL Quantum Stream Studio | Quad pattern premium USB microphone for streaming, recording and gaming Audacity Lit: Finger & Rainy Season - Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993) Night Shift (1978) Survivor Type & The Jaunt - Skeleton Crew (1985 ) Good Neighbours (2021) & Trad Wife (2026) - Sarah Langan Yesteryear (2026) - Caro Claire Burke We Sold Our Souls (2018) & Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (2025) - Grady Hendrix Girl Dinner (2025) - Olivie Blake Danse Macabre (1981) , 'Salem's Lot (1975), The Shining (1977), Pet Sematary (1983), It (1986), The Institute (2019), Firestarter (1980), Doctor Sleep (2013) - SK The Dorians (2026) - Nick Cutter Sources: Bicks, Caroline. Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King . New York: Hogarth, 2026. Birzer, Bradley J. "The Haunting of Hill House." The Imaginative Conservative , January 6, 2017 https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2017/01/shirley-jackson-haunting-of-hill-house-bradley-birzer.html "Book Review of Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks." BookPage , April 28, 2026 https://www.bookpage.com/reviews/monsters-in-the-archives-caroline-bicks-book-review/ "Carrie Is Shining: Internal Monologue in Stephen King's Carrie and The Shining ." Cool Lima Bean, January 22, 2018. https://coollimabean.wordpress.com/2018/01/22/carrie-is-shining-internal-monologue-in-stephen-kings-carrie-and-the-shining/ Hong, Ze. "The Evolutionary-Cognitive Foundation and Cultural Persistence of Menstrual Taboos in Human Societies." Evolution and Human Behavior 47, no. 4 (2026): 106899 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2026.106899 King, Stephen. Carrie . London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011. Rumel, John E. "Back to the Future: The In Loco Parentis Doctrine and Its Impact on Whether K-12 Schools and Teachers Owe a Fiduciary Duty to Students." Indiana Law Review 46, no. 3 (2013): 711– https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/practice/law-reviews/ilr/pdf/vol46p711.pdf Sechrest, Jason. "Firestarter and Standing Up to 'The Man.'" Cemetery Dance Online , August 24, 2018 https://www.cemeterydance.com/extras/what-i-learned-stephen-king-firestarter/ "Stephen King's Early Carrie Draft Featured the Telekinetic Teenager Morphing into an Alien Being." Fangoria , April 24, 2026 https://www.fangoria.com/stephen-kings-original-carrie-draft-alien-being/ "UMaine English Professor Caroline Bicks Talks New Book: 'Monsters in the Archives.'" UMaine News , June 8, 2026 https://umaine.edu/news/2026/04/umaine-english-professor-caroline-bicks-talks-new-book-monsters-in-the-archives/ "What Was Found in Stephen King's Private Archive Changes How You'll Read His Books Forever." Yahoo Entertainment , April 21, 2026. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/found-stephen-kings-private-archive-171027031.html

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  Episode #17

  Ep 17 - Winterween Special - My Top 10 Horror Movies

  Aug 11, 20261h 20mS1

  While the Northern Hemisphere is camping it out at SummerWeen , we’re in the Land Down Under getting what chills we can during WinterWeen ! Join Film Lady at her debut at production studio discussing her top 10 Horror Hits. Content Warning : Content-related mentions of ED & Suicide. SPOILERS: this ep spoils the plot of 10 horror movies mentioned by the author. Find me: @filmladyroyal on Letterboxd, Bluesky & Instagram. Email: kinoroyalepodcast@gmail.com Extended Show Notes here KR online: https://kinoroyale.net/ Discover Film Lady: https://filmladyproductions.netlify.app/ Letterboxd Top 100 by FL List in full here Mentions: Emsolation pod by Em Rusciano Rode Caster Pro II - recording equipment One of the many disappointing reviews of Eli Roth’s Ice cream man: https://cityhub.com.au/ice-cream-man-review/ EA (owner of the Sims) buyout news: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjejyl34345o Not Malcom’s video on that topic: EA is actually, finally dead. Author of HP, J.K. Rowling, continues to publicly support anti-trans legislation and further targets the asexual community. A Complete Breakdown of the J.K. Rowling Transgender-Comments Controversy | Glamour Movies mentioned: I Saw the TV Glow Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma Seven Hunger Games Battle Royale Escape Room Home Movies (Shudder) Blue Velvet Mulholland Dr Inland Empire Backrooms Novel: Bloody Brick Road (reimagining of Wizard of OZ) Post Soviet phenomena of ‘Who Killed Laura Palmer?’ View of “Kto ubil Loru Palmer?” | Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe What Would You Do? - pod or something like that? SOZ forgot the name So the commode I'm referring to in relation to Oculus & Alice through the Looking Glass actually has 2 meanings: a kind of a mobility-friendly toilet (yes!) & French style antique dressing table. I think I meant the latter, haha :D My grandma's one looked kinda like this but in brown: Large Dressing Table Mirror Home Decor Folding 3 Sided Tri Fold Champagne Vanity | eBay Australia Warm Close : a piece about Winterween generated by Claude AI Music - via Free Music Archive — CC BY : Soularflair - Soundscape 36 (shrill, scary, ghostly, drone) Soularflair - Soundscape 35 (dark, scary, mechanized drone) Soularflair - Call Of The Void (soundtrack, dark, creepy, scary) Amarent - Caught in the Middle (Instrumental) - Remastered Jake Hunter - Scary Cinematic Background Piano Triple5 Here - Creepy Mindseye - Orion - Instrumental Mindseye - Spores - Instrumental Amarent - To the Moon (Instrumental) Acknowledgment of Country I would like to acknowledge that I live, work, and learn on the traditional lands of the Dharug and Darkinjung peoples. I pay my respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples here today.

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  Episode #16

  Ep 16: Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma (2026)

  Aug 1, 20261h 45mS1

  To kick off the Bloody Month of August Film Lady travels to Camp Miasma to potentially get together with Gillian Anderson. Little does she know she has to compete not only with Hannah Einbinder, but Little Death too! The new movie Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma (2026) by Jane Schoenbrun gets the blood pumping like nothing else does! 9/10 Little Deaths. Content Warning : Blood, Teenage Sex, Death, Camping and Campiness. SPOILERS: this is an extremely spoilerific episode discussing characters & plot, listen at your own risk. Find me: @filmladyroyal on Letterboxd, Bluesky & Instagram. Email: kinoroyalepodcast@gmail.com Listen to all the eps here: https://kinoroyale.net/ This episode: https://kinoroyale.net/episodes/miasma The Cinefile Blog: https://cinefileblog.com/ Discover Film Lady: https://filmladyproductions.netlify.app/ Mentions & links: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma - Gillian Anderson & Hannah Einbinder Jane Schoenbrun, Gillian Anderson & Hannah Einbinder Talk Queer Horror at Cannes Jane Schoenbrun on Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Jane Schoenbrun pronounced as Jane SHOHN-bruhn , as in this video: Jane Schoenbrun’s Closet Picks Francis Rogerson, May 20, 2026. Independent Magazine, Cannes Review. Don’t Watch Yourself, Watch the Movie: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ - Independent Magazine ‎‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ review by Joshua Minsoo Kim • Letterboxd Rejectacon Aus (@rejectaconaus26) • Instagram photos and videos Cold Open, Intermissions & Warm Close : Edgar Allan Poe, " A Dream Within a Dream " from The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, ed. R. W. Griswold. New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850. Public Domain. A Dream Within a Dream | The Poetry Foundation Recs: I Saw the TV Glow (2024) - IMDb We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021) - IMDb Twin Peaks (TV Series 1990–1991) - IMDb The Shining (1980) - IMDb The X Files (1993-2018) Sleepaway Camp (1983) Friday the 13th (1980) - IMDb The Last House on the Left (1972) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - IMDb American Horror Story/1984 Yellowjackets (TV Series 2021– ) - IMDb Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us by Anna Bogutskaya | Goodreads Leviticus & Saccharine movies - check respective eps on KR pod Music - via Free Music Archive — CC BY : Mr Smith - In the Mist YuraSoop - Nature Ambient YuraSoop - Beautiful Ambient Universfield - Mysterious Dark Background tabi fields - WEATHER REPORT 1 Mystery Mammal - A Brief Intermission To Rest the Robots (Instrumental) Universfield - Dark Mystery Atmosphere GrW - Alaska 1 Tea K Pea - light Kirk Osamayo - (Ambient) Fleur Acknowledgment of Country I would like to acknowledge that I live, work, and learn on the traditional lands of the Dharug and Darkinjung peoples. I pay my respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples here today.

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  Episode #15

  Ep 15: The Substance (2024)

  Jul 27, 20262h 14mS1

  Bonjouur! Prepare to get your best self out & dress it up in 80s workout gear, and follow me into episode 15 - the last episode of July, the Birth month, for which The Substance (2024) could not have been more perfect! 9/10 MonstroElisabethSues. Content Warning : Body Dysmorphia, Misogynistic Themes, Blood, Body Horror, French Extremity SPOILERS: this is an extremely spoilerific episode discussing characters & plot, listen at your own risk. Question to Listeners : Whadya reckon The Substance smells like? Find me: @filmladyroyal on Letterboxd, Bluesky & Instagram. Email: kinoroyalepodcast@gmail.com Extended Show Notes: https://kinoroyale.net/episodes/substance Discover Film Lady: https://filmladyproductions.netlify.app/ Correction by FL - from memory: Film Lady did not draw agent Scully’s face on her fake FBI card in primary school, she actually cut her photo out from a magazine. Soo professhh. Mentions: koh-rah-lee far-ZHAH pls guys, listen to the auteur’s Cannes press conference how it's pronounced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftOcGyJtNXU Fast Forward ( 1989–1992) - YT: https://youtu.be/GoBpSvm75rk?si=PBn_savhx8SdUr-M Big Girls Blouse ( 1994–1995 ) - YT: https://youtu.be/TdqmwMo0I8U?si=zRvj7aBHSuwBe6l6 Political Muppet Shows : Le Bébête Show (France,1982), Les Guignols de l'info (France, 1988), Spitting Image (UK, 1984), Rubbery Figures (Australia, 1984-1990), Puppets (Russia, 1994-1998) A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987-1995) : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101049 The Eric Andre Show (2012 - present) : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2244495 Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995–1998) with David Cross & Bob Odenkirk: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112084 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35298123/ Destination Calabria YT music video: https://youtu.be/Kq4OtRsdXls?si=QMNU0pMmE3NT8IR7 The Big Steal (1990) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099138/ Revenge (2017) by Coralie Fargeat: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6738136/ Saccharine (2026) by Natalie Erika James: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35050712 The Sims ‘Hollywood’ world, Del Sol Valley : https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Del_Sol_Valley In my skin (2002) : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337961 Martyrs (2008) : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029234 Trouble Every Day (2001) : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204700 The Blob (1988) : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094761 Inside (2007) : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0856288 Swallow - a novel by Alexandria Burnham: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244559671-swallow The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen: ⁠ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid ⁠ Cronenburgia: Crimes of the Future (2022) : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14549466/ The Fly (1986) : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091064 Crash (1996) : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964 The Shrouds (2024) : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20212786 Cold Open, Intermissions & Warm Close : Belle by Notre Dame de Paris Performed by Garou, Patrick Fiori & Daniel Lavoie Producers Jannick Top, Serge Perathoner Notre Dame de Paris (Version Intégrale), 1998 https://genius.com/Garou-belle-lyrics Music - via Free Music Archive — CC BY : AurosonMusic - Energetic Pop Background Geoff Harvey - Purple Planet Music - French Life Geoff Harvey - Purple Planet Music - French Romance Geoff Harvey - Purple Planet Music - Paris Accordian Geoff Harvey - Purple Planet Music - Parisian Waltz Geoff Harvey - Purple Planet Music - Promenade JMHBM - French Toast Mr Smith - French Girls & Cigarettes Music for Creators - Energetic Stock Music Upbeat & Energetic Funky Groove Upbeat Energetic Sport Kit Soularflair - ONE PERSPECTIVE SCREAMING INTO THE VOID (dark ambient, unsettling) Kirk Osamayo - Unsettling Ambience ------ Acknowledgment of Country I would like to acknowledge that I live, work, and learn on the traditional lands of the Dharug and Darkinjung peoples. I pay my respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples here today.

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  Episode #14

  Ep 14: Heated Rivalry - part 2 - TV Show (2025)

  Jul 16, 20261h 5mS1

  This bitch is a cunning linguist, she loves languages! - Film Lady describing herself, probably. Listen to an ex-Russian straight chick ramble about the hyped-up gay sports romance adaptation - ‘ Heated Rivalry (2025) ’. 9/10 Banana Socks. Content Warning : Sexual Language (Explicit), Mentions of Suicide. Mentions: HR novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heated_Rivalry_(novel) Cheburashka: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheburashka Doxa vid on HR: https://youtu.be/L9ruQnm8kYM?si=8-PpfCbyGhhqlric SPOILERS: this is an extremely spoilerific episode discussing characters & plot, listen at your own risk. Find me: @filmladyroyal on Letterboxd, Bluesky & Instagram. Email: kinoroyalepodcast@gmail.com Extended Show Notes: https://kinoroyale.net/episodes/heated-rivalry-show Discover Film Lady: https://filmladyproductions.netlify.app/ My top 100 movies list: https://letterboxd.com/filmladyroyal/list/my-fave-horror-movies-of-all-times/ Music - via Free Music Archive — CC BY : GrW - Alaska 1 LaFaena - Sexy Meydän - Away Tea K Pea - light Cold Open - song ‘ Мальчик-Гей (Gay Boy) ’ by t.A.T.u. Producer: Ivan Shapovalov 200 po vstrechnoy https://genius.com/Genius-english-translations-tatu-gay-boy-english-translation-lyrics https://genius.com/Tatu-gay-boy-lyrics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.A.T.u . Warm Close : song by Mylène Farmer Fuck Them All Producer: Laurent Boutonnat Avant que l’ombre… https://genius.com/Mylene-farmer-fuck-them-all-lyrics Acknowledgment of Country I would like to acknowledge that I live, work, and learn on the traditional lands of the Dharug and Darkinjung peoples. I pay my respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples here today.

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