John Llewellyn Probert

"...if you’re a fan of movies like Ti West’s THE INNKEEPERS, it’s likely you will consider NEVER AFTER DARK a potential classic, too" NEVER AFTER DARK is out on digital from Blue Finch next Monday : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/10/neve...

"A comedy horror step up for Jackson after BAD TASTE and BRAIN DEAD". THE FRIGHTENERS is out on 4K in a three disc set next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

"Grand Guignol Plus Giallo Equals Seminal Splatter Classic". Sean Cunningham's FRIDAY THE 13TH gets a 4K release from Warners: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/10/frid...

"Inspired by the legendary Roger Corman film & the musical that followed". Frank Oz's film of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS gets a 4K 40th anniversary release from Warners on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/10/litt...

"...does it’s absolute best to be as bloody and as painful as possible." Fede Alvarez's 2013 EVIL DEAD remake gets the 4K treatment from Studio Canal, out on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/10/evil...

"The final twenty minutes of this contain at lease two bits that will cause anyone kindly disposed to this sort of thing to get shivers and then nod with pleasure at a job well done." THE SCREAMING SKULL is out on Blu-ray from Eureka next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

"Definitely NOT 'the worst film ever made'." Ed Wood's PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE gets released on Blu-ray by the BFI with BRIDE OF THE MONSTER as an extra: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/10/plan...

"...Cathy’s ghost smashes the window, grabs Mr Lockwood and sprays blood everywhere. There. Now you know if you want to watch it." The really rather decent WUTHERING HEIGHTS: HOUSE OF THE DAMNED is out on digital from @signatureuk.bsky.social next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/10/wuth...

"...features some of the most repulsive and well done horrible dentistry ever committed to film" INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER is out on Digital from Sony now: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/10/insi...

"...big budget, fast-paced, tightly scripted (by Shane Black), well-directed piece that’s one of the better action movies of the period". THE LAST BOY SCOUT is out on 4K next Monday from Arrow: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

Here's a jolly nice review of Cthulhu Cymraeg: The Night Country, with good stuff to say about all the stories, including mine: www.risingshadow.net/articles/rev...

"Nice Doggy?" CUJO gets a 4K upgrade from Arrow with a set that also includes the international (ie non-US) cut of the film: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/10/cujo...

"...stands alongside other recent movies like TALK TO ME and OBSESSION in examining the concerns of an emerging younger generation" Alex Ullom's IT ENDS is out on Monday from @signatureuk.bsky.social: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/10/it-e...

"Highly recommended, IF you can take it." Simon Rumley's brilliant but gruelling CRUSHED is out on Digital from Grimmvision on Monday @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/10/crus...

Publication day! It's always a special thrill for me to be in the kind of paperback I would buy as a boy, and this one's Welsh as well! Out from @serenbooks.bsky.social today!

"...a big budget, hugely polished riff on Italian 80s classics like Lamberto Bava’s DEMONS or Umberto Lenzi’s NIGHTMARE CITY." COLONY is the best zombie picture you'll see this year, and it's out from Studio Canal on disc & digital today: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/09/colo...

"Superb upgrade of a classic" Jonathan Glazer's SEXY BEAST gets the posh @secondsightfilms.bsky.social treatment, out next Monday @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/09/sexy...

"...shot after shot resembles SF magazine covers of the period brought to life". Arrow are bringing out FORBIDDEN PLANET on 4K, out next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/09/forb...

"...rather singular and frequently outrageously entertaining" BLUEBEARD is out from Studio Canal next week: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/09/blue...

"...a low budget tale of incipient claustrophobic madness". LENORE is out on Digital on Monday @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/09/leno...

"The “ancient book” of magic that is all of “two hundred years old” will raise a smile from many reading this". WHERE DARKNESS DWELLS is out on Digital on Monday @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/09/wher...

"Reminiscent of Joseph Kahn’s DETENTION in the way seemingly unrelated events all fit together neatly by the end" THE WAVE is getting a Digital release next Monday @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

"He sets off into a snowstorm with the only typewritten copy of what looks like his rather short novel" Arrow's excellent 4K upgrade of MISERY is out next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/09/mise...

"...belongs to a very long tradition of horror based around the simple premise of ‘Clueless individual does something without thinking it through properly and disaster ensues’ " Curry Barker's OBSESSION is out on disc from Universal now: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/09/obse...

"...may well remind you of John Carpenter’s classic HALLOWEEN in places" William Wyler's THE DESPERATE HOURS gets a Blu-ray release from Arrow Video on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

"...the dialogue crackles and there are some memorable speeches and one-liners..." Robert Towne's TEQUILA SUNRISE gets the 4K treatment from Arrow, out Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/09/tequ...

"...if you’re expecting a generic slasher piece then you’ll be very pleasantly surprised at how things pan out." MARSHMALLOW gets a UK Blu-ray release from Toy Robot Video next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/09/mars...

"...might remind you of the kind of thing Dan Curtis used to put in his anthology movies" THE SPIRIT LOCK is out on Digital today @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

"Barker would claim in interviews at the time that it was rewritten by a ‘tits and car chase man’. " And thus it was that the teenaged JLP thought he had found his calling. UNDERWORLD gets a 4K release from Arrow next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/09/unde...

"Hammer plus Nigel Kneale equals Excellence in Cinema" Hammer's THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN is out on 4K next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

"...rarely dull and the presence of some familiar Hammer faces helps pass the time very comfortably." BREAK IN THE CIRCLE is out from Hammer in 4K on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/08/brea...

"...offers plenty for aficionados of the genre" Alberto De Martino's DJANGO SHOOTS FIRST is out on 4K from Studio Canal today: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/08/djan...

"...tries hard to be a sinister version of Hansel and Gretel" Curtis Harrington's WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO? is officially out on Blu-ray from Hammer next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/08/whoe...

Jumped to 'Nightmare Abbey' #10. Fave stories to dater: Reggie Oliver's gorgeous 'Sad Gardens': #Magnus & @johnlprobert.bsky.social vs. the Will o' the Water: @helengrantsays.bsky.social's #SawneyBeaneClan update: & Tom Johnstone's 'Lucky Lucifer.' #tour_guides_hate_you #haf_found_lucan

Playing catch up with 'Nightmare Abbey' mag (ed Tom English) beginning with #6. Fave stories so far, a Magnus the supernatural dog story by @johnlprobert.bsky.social, Ian Rogers' 'Blackwoods,' and a nightmare drive on a not entirely, deserted stretch of motorway by @helengrantsays.bsky.social

"Brother Cadfael goes EuroGothic". The excellent THE NAME OF THE ROSE gets a deserved 4K release from @secondsightfilms.bsky.social next Monday @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

"Slade really grabs his material with both hands and runs with it". 30 DAYS OF NIGHT got a 4K release from Icon this week: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/07/30-d...

"...by the hour mark you’ll be wishing the eruptions were a little more frequent and a lot more violent" Icelandic volcano disaster movie THE FIRES is out on digital from @signatureuk.bsky.social from today: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

"...offers little to no hope for a human race that has caused its own undoing." Arrow are bringing out SOYLENT GREEN on 4K on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/07/soyl...

“We make shitty movies for people with bad taste. And alcoholics.” The excellent MOCKBUSTER, about making a movie for low rent outfit The Asylum, is out on Digital next Monday @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/07/mock...

"...if you’ve not seen this and love British SF you deserve to treat yourself" Hammer's X THE UNKNOWN gets the posh 4K treatment, out next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/07/x-un...

"As the months pass it becomes obvious that there is no hope for humankind. At all" Stanley Kramer's ON THE BEACH gets a Blu-ray release from the BFI next Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/07/on-b...

"Aeroplane Disaster Plus Shark Movie Equals Smashing Film". Renny Harlin's extremely entertaining DEEP WATER is out from @signatureuk.bsky.social on digital today and disc next week: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/07/deep...

"...features quite a few cowboys, lots of cattle and some charming Mexican village dancing" Eureka's Beasts Unleashed box set is out on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/07/beas...

"Features much trousers down in public and other shenanigans". Eureka Entertainment are releasing a set of Laurel & Hardy silents and I'm delighted to report it was only five minutes before I started laughing: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/07/laur...

"Set in France and filmed in Spain by an American company operating out of its UK office" AIP's MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE is out from Hammer on Monday: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2026/07/murd...

Just read THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR - a great anthology about Max the AI who punishes wrongdoers by sending them to the 13th Floor. Excellent short stories from @johnlprobert.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social, Thana Niveau, Mason Cross, @angelaslatter.bsky.social & more! Published by Rebellion.