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Movie
Acting
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Birthplace
- Australia
- Credits
- 12 titles
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.
Signature work
Known For
Acting credits 11
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| TBA | Abel Ferrara's Game of Mirrors Film | Narrator |
| TBA | Copycat? Black Cat and Its Influences Film | Narrator |
| 2025 | Lake Mungo Revisited Film | Self |
| 2025 | Chain Reactions Film | Self |
| 2025 | 1000 Women in Horror Film | Self |
| 2023 | What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American Nightmare Film | Self |
| 2022 | The Devil Pulls the Strings Film | Narrator |
| 2021 | Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror Film | Self |
| 2021 | The Found Footage Phenomenon Film | Self |
| 2019 | Circumnavigating Ring Film | Self |
| 2017 | The Power of Perception Film | narrator |
Crew credits 5
| Year | Title | Job |
|---|---|---|
| TBA | In Search of Nosferatu Film | Co-Producer |
| 2025 | 1000 Women in Horror Film | Writer |
| 2022 | The Devil Pulls the Strings Film | Writer |
| 2019 | Circumnavigating Ring Film | Thanks |
| 2017 | The Power of Perception Film | Writer |