Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Acting
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
9 credits
Circumnavigating Ring
Movie • 2019
Self
What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American Nightmare
Movie • 2023
Self
Chain Reactions
Movie • 2025
Self
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Movie • 2021
Self
The Found Footage Phenomenon
Movie • 2021
Self
1000 Women in Horror
Movie • 2025
Self
Lake Mungo Revisited
Movie • 2025
Self
The Power of Perception
Movie • 2017
narrator
Abel Ferrara's Game of Mirrors
Movie
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