Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Known for: Acting
Born: —
Place of birth: Australia
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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Filmography
11 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
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Lake Mungo Revisited
2025
6.0
Chain Reactions
2025
6.6
1000 Women in Horror
2025
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What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American Nightmare
2023
7.6
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
5.8
The Found Footage Phenomenon
2021
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Circumnavigating Ring
20197.0
The Power of Perception
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Abel Ferrara's Game of Mirrors
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Copycat? Black Cat and Its Influences
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In Search of Nosferatu
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