Person

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Acting · 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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  Chain Reactions

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  Lake Mungo Revisited

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  1000 Women in Horror

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  Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

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  The Found Footage Phenomenon

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• The Power of Perception

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  In Search of Nosferatu

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  What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American Nightmare

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  Circumnavigating Ring

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• Copycat? Black Cat and Its Influences

  Narrator

• 2025Lake Mungo RevisitedSelf
• 2025Chain ReactionsSelf
• 20251000 Women in HorrorSelf
• 2023What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American NightmareSelf
• 2021Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk HorrorSelf
• 2021The Found Footage PhenomenonSelf
• 2019Circumnavigating RingSelf
• 2017The Power of Perceptionnarrator
• —Abel Ferrara's Game of MirrorsNarrator
• —Copycat? Black Cat and Its InfluencesNarrator
• —In Search of NosferatuCo-Producer