Current Commissions

Currently working on the second draft of the Doctor Who essay for Cambridge Scholars Publishing and in the process of organising interviews with Splintered director Simeon Halligan and Marc Price, the director of Colin.

Beyond Hammer

More reviews of my first book Beyond Hammer have appeared on the newsstands: Empire awarded the book three out of five stars commenting that it was an "engaging" read for its target audience whilst Total Film also awarded the book three out of five stars, stating that it was "a genre primer that lucidly skin-peels four decades of scares and subtexts, from The Vampire Lovers to The Descent."

The Summer 2009 edition of Electric Sheep features my text I Robot. I Revolt, an essay on the popular sub-genre of homicidal technological revolt in Hollywood cinema, featuring Westworld, Blade Runner, The Stepford Wives and RoboCop.

Current Commissions

Now that the First Drafts of the Doctor Who chapters have been completed and sent to their respective editors, I have been working on the Second Draft of the Studying The Devil's Backbone book alongside viewing films for my next essay in MediaMagazine, a text chronicling the history of the Horror Mockumentary.

Beyond Hammer

A review of my first book, Beyond Hammer, has been published in the August 2009 edition of the magazine Filmstar: rated three and a half stars out of five, the reviewer states that the book is

"all well-written and enlightening, managing to tread that difficult line between academic depth and easy readability."

They also state that it is "good to see Shaun of the Dead being taken seriously... it does, after all, provide the essence of Blighty; a strange, funny, but, in the end, a messed-up patriarchy where everyone goes and hides down the pub and tries to pretend it's not happening."

Filmstar, August 2009. p.148

Current Commissions

The second Doctor Who text is now finished and with the publisher whilst my article on Requiem and The Exorcism of Emily Rose has now been signed off by the editor of Electric Sheep and will be published in the September 2009 edition.

Beyond Hammer

My first book, Beyond Hammer, has received its first customer review on Amazon: the reviewer gave the book 5 out of 5 stars and commented: "With the international success of recent British films such as 28 Days Later and The Descent, this academically-rigorous but highly readable book is a timely account of just how far the genre has progressed since Hammer's final film in 1976. An impressive debut."

The book was also ranked 24 (out of 100) on Amazon's best seller list for books on horror cinema.