Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Actor
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
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
September 9, 2021
The Found Footage Phenomenon
August 30, 2021
Chain Reactions
September 19, 2025
1000 Women in Horror
August 21, 2025
Circumnavigating Ring
March 18, 2019
What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American Nightmare
November 14, 2023
Lake Mungo Revisited
October 5, 2025
Acting10
- 2025Lake Mungo Revisited as Self
- 2025Chain Reactions as Self
- 20251000 Women in Horror as Self
- 2023What the Blood Moon Brings: Messiah of Evil, A New American Nightmare as Self
- 2021Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror as Self
- 2021The Found Footage Phenomenon as Self
- 2019Circumnavigating Ring as Self
- 2017The Power of Perception as narrator
- TBAAbel Ferrara's Game of Mirrors as Narrator
- TBA