English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternate fictional versions of history. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the BSFA award.
76 movies · 5 shows
Cellar Club Live
2026·0.0
The Hero of Heroic Bloodshed: A John Woo Documentary
2025·8.0
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
2025·0.0
Scala!!!
2024·7.8
Scala Interviews
2024·0.0
Break-Neck Brilliance: A New Era of Jackie Chan and Skeleton-Shattering Stunts
2023·0.0
Dracula Unearthed
2022·7.0
Marauders from the Mediterranean: The Macabre Magic of the Spanish Zombie Film
2022·0.0
The Young General: Reflections on Michael Reeves
2022·8.0
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
2021·6.3
Hiding in Plain Sight
2021·0.0
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
2021·6.0
A Place Among the Dead
2020·2.4
Tales of the Uncanny
2020·7.0
Jorge Grau: Catalonia's Cult Film King
2020·0.0
The Emmanuelle Effect
2020·0.0
From Rollerball to Rome - Reflection on a Sci-Fi Classic
2020·0.0
A Very English Exploitation: Inseminoid and the Shock Cinema of Norman J. Warren
2020·0.0
Into Lonely Water
2020·0.0
Tactics: Reflections on a Seventies Horror Classic
2020·0.0
Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
2019·6.5
Last Man Standing
2018·0.0
Kim Newman on the Ranown Cycle
2018·0.0
Kim Newman on The Bloodthirsty Trilogy
2018·0.0
Brain Food: Analysing Late Day Fulci
2018·7.0
Connie
2016·5.0
Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
2016·6.6
Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film
2015·7.6
Release the Hound!
2015·0.0
Mark of the Devil: Mark of the Times
2014·0.0
VHS Forever? | Psychotronic People
2014·5.0
Video Nasties - The Definitive Guide Part 2 - The Section 3 List A-L
2014·0.0
Video Nasties - The Definitive Guide Part 2 - The Section 3 List M-Z
2014·0.0
Video Nasties: Draconian Days
2014·7.4
Remembering 'Dead of Night'
2014·6.5
The Trail of Dracula
2013·10.0
From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie Movie
2012·5.7
Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains
2012·0.0
The Flesh and the Fury: X-posing Twins of Evil
2012·3.8
Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger
2012·6.0
Dear Censor…: The Secret Archive of the British Board of Film Classification
2011·7.0
The Long Road Back from Hell: Reclaiming Cannibal Holocaust
2011·0.0
Heavenly Creatures: Looking Back
2011·0.0
All's Wells That Ends Wells
2011·0.0
One Hit Wonder
2011·0.0
Video Nasties - The Definitive Guide - The Final 39
2010·10.0
Video Nasties - The Definitive Guide - The Dropped 33
2010·10.0
Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
2010·6.8
The Wolf Man: From Ancient Curse to Modern Myth
2010·7.0
Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.
2010·7.0
Kim Newman's Guide to the Flipside of British Cinema
2010·5.6
The Greatest Ever 3D Moments
2009·0.0
Ghost Stories: The Curious Tales of the Making of Ghost Story
2009·0.0
Robsessed
2009·3.1
Masters of Magic: The World of Chandu
2008·0.0
Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices
2008·6.0
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
2008·6.9
Horror’s Missing Link: Rediscovering Dr. Renault’s Secret
2008·0.0
A House of Secrets: Exploring 'Dragonwyck'
2008·7.7
He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce
2008·8.4
Concerto Macabre: The Films of John Brahm
2007·7.0
Man In the Attic: The Making of "The Lodger"
2007·7.0
The Tragic Mask: The Laird Cregar Story
2007·7.0
The Cult of The Tripods
2006·8.0
The Cult of Star Cops
2006·9.0
The Cult of Doomwatch
2006·0.0
Lugosi: The Dark Prince
2006·7.6
Shadows of Suspense
2006·0.0
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
2006·7.1
Karloff: The Gentle Monster
2006·7.6
The Dalek Tapes
2006·7.5
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
2005·9.4
Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation
2004·0.0
The Kneale Tapes
2003·0.0
The Blood Beast: The Films of Michael Reeves
1999·0.0
Fear in the Dark
1991·9.0