Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Birthplace: Australia

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

Chain Reactions
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
In Search of Nosferatu
The Found Footage Phenomenon
1000 Women in Horror
The Power of Perception
Lake Mungo Revisited
What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American Nightmare
Abel Ferrara's Game of Mirrors
Copycat? Black Cat and Its Influences

Top Movie Credits

Chain Reactions Self
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror Self
In Search of Nosferatu Co-Producer
The Found Footage Phenomenon Self
1000 Women in Horror Writer
The Power of Perception Writer
Lake Mungo Revisited Self
What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American Nightmare Self
Abel Ferrara's Game of Mirrors Narrator
Copycat? Black Cat and Its Influences Narrator