Kim Newman

Kim Newman

🎬 Actor

Born

31 July 1959 (66)

Place of Birth

London, England, USA

Also known as

Kim James Newman, Jack Yeovil

Biography

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.

Filmography (40)

Cellar Club Live

Cellar Club Live

2026

The Hero of Heroic Bloodshed: A John Woo Documentary

2025

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

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

2025

Scala!!!

Scala!!!

2024

7.8
Scala Interviews

Scala Interviews

2024

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

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

2023

Dracula Unearthed

Dracula Unearthed

2022

7.0
Marauders from the Mediterranean: The Macabre Magic of the Spanish Zombie Film

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

2022

The Young General: Reflections on Michael Reeves

The Young General: Reflections on Michael Reeves

2022

8.0
The Amazing Mr. Blunden

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

2021

6.3
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!

Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!

2021

6.0
A Place Among the Dead

A Place Among the Dead

2020

2.5
Tales of the Uncanny

Tales of the Uncanny

2020

7.0
Jorge Grau: Catalonia's Cult Film King

Jorge Grau: Catalonia's Cult Film King

2020

The Emmanuelle Effect

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

Into Lonely Water

2020

Tactics: Reflections on a Seventies Horror Classic

2020

Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema

Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema

2019

6.5

Last Man Standing

2018

Kim Newman on the Ranown Cycle

2018

Kim Newman on The Bloodthirsty Trilogy

Kim Newman on The Bloodthirsty Trilogy

2018

Brain Food: Analysing Late Day Fulci

2018

7.0
Connie

Connie

2016

Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

2016

6.6
Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film

Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film

2015

7.3

Release the Hound!

2015

Mark of the Devil: Mark of the Times

2014

VHS Forever? | Psychotronic People

VHS Forever? | Psychotronic People

2014

5.0
Video Nasties - The Definitive Guide Part 2 - The Section 3 List A-L

Video Nasties - The Definitive Guide Part 2 - The Section 3 List A-L

2014

Video Nasties - The Definitive Guide Part 2 - The Section 3 List M-Z

Video Nasties - The Definitive Guide Part 2 - The Section 3 List M-Z

2014

Video Nasties: Draconian Days

Video Nasties: Draconian Days

2014

7.4

Remembering 'Dead of Night'

2014

6.5
The Trail of Dracula

The Trail of Dracula

2013

10.0
From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie Movie

From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie Movie

2012

5.7
Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains

Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains

2012

The Flesh and the Fury: X-posing Twins of Evil

The Flesh and the Fury: X-posing Twins of Evil

2012

3.8
Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger

Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger

2012

5.5

Dear Censor…: The Secret Archive of the British Board of Film Classification

2011

7.0