"Hammer does cosmic horror". My favourite Mummy film, and a serious contender for my favourite Hammer film, BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB gets a 4K release from Studio Canal on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/04/bloo...

"...one of Hammer's more interesting films" and one of my favourites. DEMONS OF THE MIND gets a 4K release from Studio Canal on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/04/demo...

"...runs 144 minutes and in that time we meet hardly a single character who has any redeeming features" John Schlesinger's DAY OF THE LOCUST gets an Arrow Blu-ray release next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

"Highly recommended and with excellent performances from all the leads." Top notch thriller THE GOOD BOY is still currently playing in UK cinemas from @signatureuk.bsky.social: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

"The equivalent of what is now termed 'Water cooler TV'" The rather excellent 1979 TV adaptation of SALEM'S LOT is getting a 4K release from Arrow, out next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/03/sale...

'...boasts a terrific setting of an empty boys' school...' Hammer's FEAR IN THE NIGHT is out on 4K from Studio Canal on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/03/fear...

"...if Jackie Collins wrote Quatermass..." Hammer's SPACEWAYS is out in a dual disc 4K set next Monday @dnapruk.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/03/spac...

"Like a feature length story from DEAD OF NIGHT". Maurice Tourneur's classic French horror THE DEVIL'S HAND is out from Eureka on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/03/la-m...

"...reminiscent of 1950s low budget British B movies" Marc Zammit's JITTERS is out on digital on Monday @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/03/jitt...

"...belongs to the ‘Eccentric British Goings On Behind Closed Doors’ genre..." the BFI are releasing Peter Medak's NEGATIVES on Blu-ray on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/03/nega...

"An essential film for fans of modern horror" Nia DaCosta's 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE is out on Digital from Sony now @dnapruk.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/03/28-y...

"Likely to become an annual seasonal watch for slasher fans" one of my favourites from last year is out on Blu-ray on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/02/sile...

Wednesday morning Magnus!

"...as our protagonists mutate and meld with their surroundings, so the film changes too..." Unique French SF Horror ELSE is out on digital from Blue Finch next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/02/else...

"When the history of 2020s cinematic horror is written, there's going to need to be a fairly big section labelled 'ambitious and interesting ideas that lacked the budget and skill to really make them work'." Today I give you, GOD OF FROGS @aimpublicity.bsky.social :

JLP Book Time! Copies of the paperback edition of my short story collection MADE FOR THE DARK are now in the house! Thrill to 'Blood and Dust'! Shudder at 'The Strange Hotel Medical Party'! Be actually moved by 'The Man Who Loved Grief'! ! Ordering details below!

"Superb British B-movie stuff". A Vernon Sewell double bill gets the BFI Blu-ray treatment, out on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/02/stro...

Sony's ANACONDA remake has just hit streaming and they've done another one of those weird food tie-ins to promote it. Here's my review of the film but not the sandwich, but there is a picture of it: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/02/anac...

"Impressive, Definitive, Essential" Arrow's three disc set of John Boorman's EXCALIBUR in 4K is out on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/02/exca...

"...a different, more low-key kind of disaster movie". WESTWORLD gets a 4K release from Arrow, out next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/02/west...

"...a different point of view to that envisioned by Giambattista Basile (and afterwards by the Brothers Grimm)" THE UGLY STEPSISTER gets the posh @secondsightfilms.bsky.social treatment, out next Monday @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

I have a new novella out! ‘For I Have Seen the Darkness Moving’ features all manner of giant monster shenanigans which would cost Hollywood at least $150 million to put on screen and you can find it in Cthulhu Cymraeg: The Night Country. Ordering details below!

"...sympathetic to a man whose modus operandi would become the stuff of so many horror films of the next few decades" Hammer's STOLEN FACE is out on 4K on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/02/stol...

"A wildly original work that combines comedy, science-fiction, horror and more". SAVE THE GREEN PLANET! is out on 4K from Arrow on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/02/save...

"...based on the gesticulations of a madman who couldn't communicate in any known language." THE VISITOR is out on 4K from Arrow next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

"...a no-holds-barred neon lit showdown with a bunch of rubbery blue melon-headed monsters" Joe Begos' JIMMY AND STIGGS is out on digital platforms a week today : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/02/jimm...

Out next Monday, "...definitely not the film to show someone to demonstrate why you love British horror films". CRY OF THE BANSHEE is out on 4K: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/02/cry-...

Season 3 of the excellent crime show Dark Winds is released on Monday, along with a box set of the entire show @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/01/dark...

"...comes across like one of zombie genre progenitor George A Romero's equally concerned movies like THE CRAZIES" The new film from the director of THESE FINAL HOURS is out from @signatureuk.bsky.social a week today: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/01/we-b...

Magnus & John's Most Haunted reboot has not been picked up by Netflix.

"Ludicrous, over the top nonsense" SNAKES ON A PLANE gets a 4K release from Arrow on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/01/snak...

"...could be considered a feature length live action Road Runner movie par excellence" SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE is now out on digital from Sony. Here's what I thought, plus details of SISU's tie-in hamburger. Yes, hamburger: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/01/sisu...

Up for pre-order is the paperback edition of my long out of print hardback collection Made for the Dark. This new version contains: Four extra stories! New story notes and introductions! A picture of me on the telly on the front! Goodness me how can you resist? blackshuckbooks.co.uk/made-for-the...

"A cheerful, colourful film about organised murder" Time to crack on with 2026's reviews as Arrow brings THE ASSASSINATION BUREAU to UK Blu-ray: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

A Boxing Day tradition - now in its 13th year! Get ready to read about films you've likely never heard of as House of Mortal Cinema presents its Top Ten Films of 2025! : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Magnus has found a new cemetery. Now he'll want me to write a story about him in it. Oh all right then...

Still marvellous after all these years. Stuart Gordon's REANIMATOR gets the posh 4K treatment from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social and it looks fantastic @aimpublicity.bsky.social: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/12/re-a...

'Another classy presentation from Hammer' as WHISPERING SMITH HITS LONDON hits 4K: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/12/whis...

Magnus of the Stones!

"Everyone will be scratching their heads at why Dracula has an unexplained army of comedy gargoyle minions" My thoughts on Luc Besson's new DRACULA, out Monday from @signatureuk.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/drac...

"Faster moving and a lot more fun than JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH". PRIMITIVE WAR is out in UK cinemas from Friday from @signatureuk.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/prim...

"Quite, quite lovely." My thoughts on THE LIFE OF CHUCK which is out now on disc from Studio Canal: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

"Conveys a sense of creeping dread pretty much from the outset" Grim noir A DESERT is out on Monday on digital : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-de...

"the Baron...looks about as upset as someone who has just received an especially large and unexpected gas bill." Studio Canal follow up their 4K of the SCARS OF DRACULA with its originally double-billed Frankenstein film, out Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/horr...

"Whoever thought we'd get to see Bob Todd in 4K?" The first Hammer Dracula to get the 4K treatment is out Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/scar...

"...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...

"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 : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/adul...

"Terrific stuff for fans of Robin Hood movies and British cinema in general." Hammer's MEN OF SHERWOOD FOREST is out next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/men-...

"...a movie where restraint has gone firmly out of the window." Ti West's MAXXXINE gets the posh 4K @secondsightfilms.bsky.social box set treatment, out on Monday @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/maxx...

"...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 @secondsightfilms.bsky.social treatment, out next Monday @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/pear...