Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Acting
Biography
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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Abel Ferrara's Game of Mirrors
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Copycat? Black Cat and Its Influences
Chain Reactions
Sep 19, 2025Rated 6 out of 10
1000 Women in Horror
Aug 21, 2025Rated 6.8 out of 10
Lake Mungo Revisited
Oct 05, 2025
What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American Nightmare
Nov 14, 2023The Devil Pulls the Strings
Jan 18, 2022
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Sep 09, 2021Rated 7.6 out of 10
The Found Footage Phenomenon
Aug 30, 2021Rated 5.6 out of 10
Circumnavigating Ring
Mar 18, 2019The Power of Perception
Jun 20, 2017Rated 7 out of 10