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Kim Newman

Acting Born 1959-07-31 London, England, USA

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.

Known For

Cellar Club Live 2026

The Hero of Heroic Bloodshed: A John Woo Documentary 2025 8

A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep' 2025

Scala!!! 2024 7.8

Scala Interviews 2024

Break-Neck Brilliance: A New Era of Jackie Chan and Skeleton-Shattering Stunts 2023

Dracula Unearthed 2022 7

Marauders from the Mediterranean: The Macabre Magic of the Spanish Zombie Film 2022

The Young General: Reflections on Michael Reeves 2022 8

The Amazing Mr. Blunden 2021 6.3

Hiding in Plain Sight 2021

Attack of the Hollywood Clichés! 2021 6

Censor 2021 5.8

A Place Among the Dead 2020 2.4

Tales of the Uncanny 2020 7

Jorge Grau: Catalonia's Cult Film King 2020

The Emmanuelle Effect 2020

From Rollerball to Rome - Reflection on a Sci-Fi Classic 2020

A Very English Exploitation: Inseminoid and the Shock Cinema of Norman J. Warren 2020

Into Lonely Water 2020

Tactics: Reflections on a Seventies Horror Classic 2020

Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema 2019 6.5

Mark Kermode's Christmas Cinema Secrets 2018 6

Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema 2018 7.1