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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

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…

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1000 Women in Horror1000 Women in Horror · 2025
1000 Women in Horror
★ 7.02025
MovieDocumentaryHorror
Is horror a man’s world? You might assume so – but you won’t be thinking that way for long once you investigate the vast contribution women have made to horror movies for well over a century. In 2020, award-winning Australian critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas released the definitive book on the subject: 1000 Women in Horror, 1895–2018, an encyclopaedic work celebrating the many women – filmmakers, actors, producers and technicians – who have shaped the genre since the moment cinema’s light first flickered.
In Search of NosferatuIn Search of Nosferatu
In Search of Nosferatu
MovieDocumentary
Filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe and archivist Lauren Newport-Quinn, the latter of whom can 'hear' silent films, hunt for lost NOSFERATU prints to rebuild Murnau's classic from decayed versions.
Circumnavigating RingCircumnavigating Ring · 2019
Circumnavigating Ring
2019
MovieDocumentary
A new video essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on the evolution of the Ringu series.

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