Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Known for: Acting

From: Australia

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 (10)

MOVIE
Lake Mungo Revisited
2025
as Self
MOVIE★ 6.0
Chain Reactions
2025
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.0
1000 Women in Horror
2025
as Self
MOVIE
What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American Nightmare
2023
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.6
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
2021
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.8
The Found Footage Phenomenon
2021
as Self
MOVIE
Circumnavigating Ring
2019
as Self
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Power of Perception
2017
as narrator
MOVIE
Copycat? Black Cat and Its Influences
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as Narrator
MOVIE
Abel Ferrara's Game of Mirrors
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as Narrator