Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
ActingAustralia
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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2025Lake Mungo RevisitedMovieas Self
2025Chain ReactionsMovieas Self
20251000 Women in HorrorMovieas Self · Writer
2023What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American NightmareMovieas Self- 2022The Devil Pulls the StringsMovieas Narrator · Writer
2021Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk HorrorMovieas Self
2021The Found Footage PhenomenonMovieas Self
2019Circumnavigating RingMovieas Self · Thanks- 2017The Power of PerceptionMovieas narrator · Writer
- —Abel Ferrara's Game of MirrorsMovieas Narrator
- —Copycat? Black Cat and Its InfluencesMovieas Narrator
—In Search of NosferatuMovieCo-Producer