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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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.
Filmography (12)
Lake Mungo Revisited
Role: Self2025
The Found Footage Phenomenon
Role: Self2021
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Role: Self2021
Chain Reactions
Role: Self2025
1000 Women in Horror
Role: Self2025
1000 Women in Horror
writer2025
Circumnavigating Ring
Role: Self2019
Circumnavigating Ring
thanks2019
What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American Nightmare
Role: Self2023
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The Power of Perception
Role: narrator2017
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Abel Ferrara's Game of Mirrors
Role: Narrator2026
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The Power of Perception
writer2017