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.
Known For
Film
Chain Reactions
Self
2025
Film
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Self
2021
Film
Lake Mungo Revisited
Self
2025
Film
1000 Women in Horror
Self
2025
Film
The Found Footage Phenomenon
Self
2021
Film
What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American Nightmare
Self
2023
Film
Circumnavigating Ring
Self
2019
Film
The Power of Perception
narrator
2017
Film
Abel Ferrara's Game of Mirrors
Narrator
Filmography
2025FilmLake Mungo Revisitedas Self2025FilmChain Reactionsas Self2025Film1000 Women in Horroras Self2023FilmWhat the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American Nightmareas Self2021FilmWoodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horroras Self2021FilmThe Found Footage Phenomenonas Self2019FilmCircumnavigating Ringas Self2017FilmThe Power of Perceptionas narrator—FilmAbel Ferrara's Game of Mirrorsas Narrator