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New Kim Newman novel – Model Actress Whatever
This week’s mock-up comic cover from Paul McCaffrey, to tie in with my out-in-May novel Model Actress Whatever, introduces the current incarnation of the UK’s long-standing national heroes, the Splendid Six. Meet Quackanapes, Silly Millie, Dr Robot, Urban Fox, the Green Knight and Blackfist IV … and their arch-nemesis, the Dealer. Team Captain Dr Robot … Continue reading
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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
- Ready or Not Here I Come (Ready or Not 2 Here I Come) (more…)
- Object Z NB: Big Spoilers - so watch the thing first ... (more…)
- Deathkeeper (more…)
- Karmadonna (more…)
- FrightFest Glasgow review - Red Riding (more…)
- Yakin Jiken (The Convenience Store) (more…)
- My notes on The Bride! (more…)
- Glasgow FrightFest review – Violence (more…)
- FrightFest Glasgow review - The Curse (2025) (more…)
- The Restoration at Grayson Manor (more…)
- FrightFest Glasgow review - Bone Keeper (more…)
- FrightFest Glasgow review - Bury the Devil (more…)
- FrightFest Glasgow review - Jailbroken (more…)
- Your Daily Dracula – Ken Ogaka, Dorakiyura Yore Ai-O (My Soul is Slashed) (1991) (more…)
- 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…)
