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Here’s the cover of my new novel – due from Titan Books May 2026.
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To commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Anno Dracula, Titan are publishing a special edition.
Here are my notes on several years of FrightFest films. It’s updated as new reviews go live.
My sister Sasha and I share this in memory of our parents, the potters Bryan and Julia Newman.
All episodes of Secrets of Cinema will be on the BBC i-Player for an extended period. Episode One The Rom-Com Episode Two The Heist Episode Three Coming of Age Episode Four Science Fiction Episode Five Horror Here’s a Kermode Uncut vlog where Mark Kermode and I talk about Secrets of Cinema, the BBC4 documentary series … Continue reading
… on Letterboxd. Start ticking off all the films in the Kim Newman’s Video Dungeon book as you see them. And marvel at the poster images. There’s a similar listing for Nightmare Movies.
I’ve posted a lot of old photos from the theatre and music stuff I did with Sheep Worrying Enterprises in and around Bridgwater in the ’70s and early ’80s. Useful comments/explanations on the a Facebook album version.
On the web
- I appear on the Cineversary podcast, discussing Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (1946).
- Your Daily Dracula – Jerry Cormier Jr as ‘Drak’, Franky and His Pals (1990) (more…)
- My Empire review of Silent Night Deadly Night (2025) is online.
- Your Daily Dracula – Pepper Martin, Ghost Fever (1987) (more…)
- My SciFiNow review of Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is online.
- I am interviewed in this edition of the Scarred for Life podcast. I discuss media which gave me nightmares as a child - including this issue of Batman, a BBC radio HG Wells serial and the Macra on Doctor Who.
- My Sight & Sound review of Wake Up Dead Man A Knives Out Mystery is online.
- My Empire review of Primitive War is online.
- My Sight & Sound review of Game is online.
- My notes on Sisu Road to Revenge (more…)
- My SciFiNow review of Keeper is online.
- Your Daily Dracula – Tim Lee, Dracula’s Bride of Horror (2022) (more…)
- Your Daily Dracula - Forrest McClain as ‘the Pale Man’, Abraham’s Boys (2024) (more…)
- FrightFest Halloween Review - Mag Mag (more…)
- FrightFest Halloween review - Coyotes (more…)
- Cam Sehpa (The Turkish Coffee Table) (2025) (more…)
- FrightFest Halloween review - Posthouse (more…)
- FrightFest Halloween Review - Affection (more…)
- FrightFest Halloween Review – Dolly (more…)
- My Sight & Sound review of Relay is online.
- Deathgasm II Goremageddon (more…)
- FrightFest Halloween review - Primate (more…)
- FrightFest Halloween review - Every Heavy Thing (more…)
- I've contributed to the Shelfies online feature edited by Lavie Tidhar and Jared Shuren.
- Your Daily Dracula - Octavi Pujades, Vampiras The Brides (2022) (more…)
- Your Daily Dracula – Tim Lies, Dracula Vampyre in Beijing (2016) (more…)
- My ScifiNow review of Black Phone 2 is online.
- My notes on Frankenstein (2025) (more…)
- My Sight & Sound review of Good Boy is online.
- At the premiere of the restored version of The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), I was on a panel discussion with Lucy Bolton, Wayne Drew, Melvyn Hayes, Mike Muncer and David Pirie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFcwv3qCUVQ
- Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue is back in UK cinemas ahead of its 4K disc release. Here's my Empire review.
- Your Daily Dracula – Yildirim Gencer, Malkoçoğlu Krallara Karşı (1967) (more…)
- Your Daily Dracula – Caleb Landry Jones, Dracula (2025) (more…)
- The Man in My Basement (more…)
- My SciFi Now review of The Conjuring: Last Rites is online.
- Your Daily Dracula - John V. Glover, The House of Van Helsing (2023) (more…)
- My SciFiNow review of The Toxic Avenger (2023) is online.
- FrightFest review – Influencers (more…)
- FrightFest review - The Serpent’s Skin (2025) (more…)
- Gill (more…)
- FrightFest review - The Rows (more…)
- FrightFest review – The Weed Eaters (more…)
- FrightFest review - Sick Puppy (more…)
- FrightFest review - Above the Knee (more…)
- FrightFest review - Mother of Flies (more…)
- FrightFest review - A Blind Bargain (2025) (more…)
- FrightFest review - The Other People (more…)
- FrightFest review - Odyssey (2025) (more…)
- FrightFest review - Redux Redux (more…)
- FrightFest review - The Haunted Forest (more…)
