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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is an Australian film critic and historian who has written several books in fields like horror film and women in film, including Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (2011) and Masks in Horror Cinema (2019). She is co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Elaine May (2019). Heller-Nicholas appears in Alexandre O. Philippe's 2024 documentary Chain Reactions, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of Tobe Hooper's 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, interviewed alongside Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama and Takashi Miike. Her 2020 book 1000 Women in Horror, 1895 - 2020 was made into a feature documentary in 2025 which Heller-Nicholas wrote and appeared in, directed by Donna Davies.
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An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties;...
An exploration of the legacy of Tobe Hooper's classic 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'.
Features new interviews with the cast and crew, along with expert opinions and unearthed behind-the-scenes foot...
Is horror a man’s world? You might assume so – but you won’t be thinking that way for long once you investigate...
The documentary tracks the origins of the found footage technique and how it transformed with technological cha...
A documentary feature that explores 1973's Messiah of Evil in the context of American independent cinema of the...
A new video essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on the evolution of the Ringu series.
In this visual essay, author Alexandra Heller-Nicholas reflects on the recurring theme or perception in Dario A...
A video essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicolas about Dangerous Game.
A video essay by author and historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
