The BFI are releasing Volume Four of their Short Sharp Shocks collections next Monday. Here's what I thought of everything that's in there: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/10/short-…

"...a rich gothic work that may well have influenced similarly strange and eccentric movies" My attempts to post a new review every day for the month of October continue with Harry Kumel's MALPERTUIS, out from Radiance Films on Monday Aim Publicity : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/10/malper…

This morning, my thoughts on Eureka Entertainment's new Blu-ray release of Jess Franco's DIABOLICAL DR Z. And no, I don't know why they didn't ask me to do the piece on mad doctor movies: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-di…

Producer Peter Ho-Sun Chan's two Asian horror anthology pictures THREE... and THREE EXTREMES are getting a double disc Blu-ray release from Arrow a week tomorrow. Here's what I thought: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/10/three-…

"...threw down a gauntlet of 'follow that' in the mid-1990s that nobody had the slightest inclination of picking up." John Carpenter's classic IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS gets the Arrow 4K treatment, out a week today: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/10/in-mou…

A Review A Day Every Day for October (phew!) continues with the BFI's new 4K restoration of Georges Franju's EYES WITHOUT A FACE, out on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/10/eyes-w…

"...you'll be chortling merrily one minute and then be genuinely horrified the next" Chris Smith's SEVERANCE is out on 4K UHD & Blu-ray from Icon next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/10/severa…

I have a new story in THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR, based on the old Maxwell Towers strip in the comic Scream! You can pre-order it and get 25% off with this link: waterstones.com/book/the-thirt…

"...has its own unique feel, right down to the climax..." Harry Kumel's DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS gets a 4K release from Radiance Films a week on Monday Aim Publicity : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/10/daught…

Nottingham's Mayhem Film Festival ended last night! Here's my write up for the day's films, with the rest accessible on my site: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/10/diary-…

The Indonesian CABIN IN THE WOODS? My thoughts on THE DRAFT, which came out yesterday from Blue Finch Alternate Current : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-dr…

"...here in the UK, the films were released by Palace Pictures through the Odeon circuit, with new Graham Humphreys artwork for most of the posters" Time for a walk down memory lane as I review Warners' new 4K set of the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET films: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-nigh…

"More than just HIGH NOON on a moon." Peter Hyams' OUTLAND gets a 4K UHD release from Arrow on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/outlan…

"...a 1930s animated short given a live action 1990s makeover" THE MASK gets a 4K release from Arrow on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-ma…

"...cultivates an admirable atmosphere of creeping strangeness for over half its runtime" Really rather good Brazilian horror A MOTHER'S EMBRACE is out on Digital on Monday from Blue Finch Films Alternate Current : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-moth…

"...unlike any other movie from this decade, and perhaps even this century." Ti West's (and Mia Goth's) PEARL gets the 4K whistles and bells Second Sight treatment, out next Monday Aim Publicity : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/pearl-…

The Podcast on Nightmare Park | Asylum (1972) and Tales of Tales (2015) - we review two stylish anthologies with special guest horror author John L Probert kultguyskeep.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/the…

"...a movie where restraint has gone firmly out of the window." Ti West's MAXXXINE gets the posh 4K Second Sight box set treatment, out on Monday Aim Publicity : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/maxxxi…

"An entertaining dark comedy that features useless (Noah), desperate (Meg) and just plain mad (Bodie) characters being thrown into a situation where no-one acts rationally" Alex Winter's ADULTHOOD is out on digital today Alternate Current : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/adulth…

"...scruffy astronauts bickering, dancing, getting bored and working in one of the most claustrophobic and cramped control rooms ever committed to celluloid." John Carpenter's DARK STAR gets the 4K (!) treatment from Fabulous Films: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/dark-s…