John Llewellyn Probert

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Dracula (2025) "A Unique Interpretation" A quite bizarre melding of elements from Francis Ford Coppola's BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (which this film leans o...

"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...

Primitive War (2025) "More Fun than JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH" Signature Entertainment are giving a much-deserved cinema release to PRIMITIVE WAR, a low budget...

"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...

The Life of Chuck (2025) "Moving, Uplifting, and Quite, Quite Lovely" After a short stint in UK cinemas, Studio Canal have released writer-director Mike Flanagan...

"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-...

Excellent! We tried to go up the tower when we stayed but they wouldn't let us!

A Desert (2025) "Filled with Insidious Menace" Blue Finch are releasing director Joshua Erkman's A DESERT, a film that could sit comfortably alongside R...

"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...

Horror of Frankenstein 4K (1970) Studio Canal are releasing a 4K transfer of the one Hammer Frankenstein not to feature Peter Cushing as the Baron. It was originally release...

"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...

Scars of Dracula 4K (1970) Studio Canal leap in before Hammer to be the first to release a 4K transfer of one of the studio's Dracula movies. Admittedly it's the one...

"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...

Dark Star 4K (1974) Fabulous Films are bringing out John Carpenter's (and Dan O'Bannon's) DARK STAR, in both limited edition 4K UHD website exclusive and stan...

"...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...

Adulthood (2025) Signature Entertainment are releasing director Alex 'BILL & TED' Winter's black comedy that veers more towards the black than the comedy. ...

"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...

Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) "Terrific Stuff for Fans" Hammer continues its invaluable series of extras-packed 4K restoration releases with this three disc set devot...

"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-...

Maxxxine 4K UHD (2024) Second Sight Films are releasing, in both limited and standard 4K UHD editions, the final film in writer-director Ti West's 'X' trilogy. The...

"...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...

Pearl 4K UHD (2022) ''Ti West and Mia Goth's Best (So Far)?" Second Sight Films are releasing both standard and posh whistles and bells 4K UHD editions of P...

"...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...

A Mother's Embrace (2025) "Seriously Decent Brazilian Horror" After its world premiere at Sitges followed by its UK premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival in March...

"...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: johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-mo...

The Mask (1994) Arrow Video are releasing, in limited edition Blu-ray and UHD sets, a 4K restoration from the original camera negative of the film that ceme...

"...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-...

Outland 4K UHD (1981) Arrow Films are releasing writer-director Peter Hyams' 1981 'space western' in a limited edition 4K restoration from the original 35mm negat...

"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/outl...

A Nightmare On Elm Street: Seven Film 4K Collection (1984 - 1994) Warner Bros. have released a box set of the first seven NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET films on 4K UHD. That's because Warners currently own New Li...

"...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-ni...

The Draft (2025) THE DRAFT is getting a digital release through Blue Finch and has been described as 'the Indonesian CABIN IN THE WOODS', which means that, l...

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

Diary of a Mayhem 2025 Day 4 - Sunday Bone Lake A couple book a romantic getaway in a lavish country house next to a lake in the middle of nowhere. Another couple turns up claimi...

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/diar...

Daughters of Darkness 4K (1971) Harry Kumel's classic, highly regarded vampire tale set in gloomy Belgian locations is getting a 4K UHD and Blu-ray dual format limited edit...

"...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 @aimpublicity.bsky.social : johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2025/10/daug...

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Severance (2006) Icon are releasing SEVERANCE, the horror comedy Bristol-born film-maker Christopher Smith made in between CREEP (2004) and TRIANGLE (2009), ...

"...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/seve...

Eyes Without a Face (1960) The very first film I wrote about for House of Mortal Cinema gets a sparkling 4K restoration release on UHD, Apple TV and Amazon Prime court...

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...

In the Mouth of Madness 4K UHD (1995) "I Think Therefore You Are - In 4K!" Arrow Films are releasing a special 4K edition of the third in John Carpenter's loosely themed 'Lov...

"...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-m...

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Three and Three...Extremes (2002 & 2004) Arrow are releasing a double disc Blu-ray set of producer Peter Ho-Sun Chan's two Asian horror anthology pictures, both of which contain wor...

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/thre...

The Diabolical Dr Z (1966) It's time for a welcome release of some more Jess Franco on UK Blu-ray as one of the best films from his early black and white period gets a...

This morning, my thoughts on Eureka'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-...

Malpertuis (1971) "The Belgian Gormenghast?" Radiance Films are releasing on Blu-ray, in a gorgeous limited edition complete with book and slipcase, a 4...

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