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...
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.
Known for
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror2021 · Self3.8
The Found Footage Phenomenon2021 · Self2.9
Chain Reactions2025 · Self3.0
1000 Women in Horror2025 · Self3.3TThe Power of Perception2017 · narrator3.5
Lake Mungo Revisited2025 · Self
In Search of NosferatuMovie · Co-Producer
Circumnavigating Ring2019 · SelfCast credits
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror2021 · Self3.8The Found Footage Phenomenon2021 · Self2.9Chain Reactions2025 · Self3.01000 Women in Horror2025 · Self3.3TThe Power of Perception2017 · narrator3.5Lake Mungo Revisited2025 · SelfCircumnavigating Ring2019 · Self
What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American Nightmare2023 · SelfAAbel Ferrara's Game of MirrorsMovie · NarratorCCopycat? Black Cat and Its InfluencesMovie · Narrator