Kim Newman

Kim Newman

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.

On screen

  • Cellar Club Live
  • A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
  • The Hero of Heroic Bloodshed: A John Woo Documentary
  • Scala!!!
  • Scala Interviews
  • Break-Neck Brilliance: A New Era of Jackie Chan and Skeleton-Shattering Stunts
  • The Young General: Reflections on Michael Reeves
  • Marauders from the Mediterranean: The Macabre Magic of the Spanish Zombie Film
  • Dracula Unearthed
  • Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
  • The Amazing Mr. Blunden
  • Hiding in Plain Sight
  • Into Lonely Water
  • Jorge Grau: Catalonia's Cult Film King
  • Tales of the Uncanny
  • The Emmanuelle Effect
  • A Place Among the Dead
  • Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
  • Kim Newman on The Bloodthirsty Trilogy
  • Connie
  • Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
  • Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film
  • VHS Forever? | Psychotronic People
  • Video Nasties - The Definitive Guide Part 2 - The Section 3 List A-L
  • Video Nasties - The Definitive Guide Part 2 - The Section 3 List M-Z
  • Video Nasties: Draconian Days
  • The Trail of Dracula
  • Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains
  • From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie Movie
  • The Flesh and the Fury: X-posing Twins of Evil
  • Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger
  • The Long Road Back from Hell: Reclaiming Cannibal Holocaust
  • Heavenly Creatures: Looking Back
  • All's Wells That Ends Wells
  • One Hit Wonder
  • The Wolf Man: From Ancient Curse to Modern Myth
  • Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.
  • Kim Newman's Guide to the Flipside of British Cinema
  • Video Nasties - The Definitive Guide - The Final 39
  • Video Nasties - The Definitive Guide - The Dropped 33
  • Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
  • The Greatest Ever 3D Moments
  • Ghost Stories: The Curious Tales of the Making of Ghost Story
  • Robsessed
  • He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce
  • Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices
  • Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
  • The Tragic Mask: The Laird Cregar Story
  • Lugosi: The Dark Prince
  • Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
  • Karloff: The Gentle Monster
  • Shadows of Suspense
  • The Dalek Tapes
  • The Cult of Doomwatch
  • The Cult of Star Cops
  • The Cult of The Tripods
  • Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
  • Russ Meyer: King of Sexploitation
  • The Kneale Tapes
  • Fear in the Dark

Behind the camera

  • Mark Kermode's Christmas Cinema Secrets
  • The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen

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