Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
@horrornonna.com

your horror nonna

dr/writer/producer/programmer/author of 10 books on cult + horror film

in the Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS + wrote/appear in Shudder's forthcoming 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR

Naarm/Australia
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Art 28%
Economics 27%
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New pinned post: I'm a critic + author of 10 books on cult + horror film including 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR (a new doc from Shudder coming soon) + I'm also in CHAIN REACTIONS, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre legacy doc, w/ Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Stephen King + Karyn Kusama. More here horrornonna.com

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Chain Reactions, now on VOD in the US, is an excellent doc on Texas Chainsaw Massacre, does something different by focusing on how one film can produce similar, and still very different experiences. Featuring the wonderful @horrornonna.com

Free on my Patreon.

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That's media archeology, BABY! x

My first home entertainment gig was an audio commentary for Fassbinder's Merchant of the Four Seasons in 2008. Seventeen years later, and I've logged my 300th title with a video essay on glorious oddball Matt Johnson's found footage banger, The Dirties.

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The Dirties (2013) Blu-ray Collector's Edition
Two best friends, Matt (Johnson) and Owen (Owen Williams), are outcasts at their high school smart, funny, and constantly harassed by bullies. To cope, they channel their pain into a film project call...
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I love this announcement so much. This release also marks a really exciting reunion of the rape-revenge crit team involved in Arrow's recent release of MS. 45, with Kat Ellinger producing this for Umbrella and writing an essay, BJ on commentary duties, and me donating a video essay to the cause.
The announcement of a lifetime — I contributed a solo commentary track for the Umbrella release of I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (1978).

I still cannot believe this. Bringing DAY OF THE WOMAN completely full circle.

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Day Of The Woman: I Spit On Your Grave + I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu
Decades later, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE: DEJA VU (DAY OF THE WOMAN: DEJA VU) revisits that legacy with shocking audacity, bringing the story full circle in a brutal, haunting continuation that refuses to ...
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At this point I honestly don't know what it will take for the internet to admit its beloved goth grandpa is actually a bit fucken fash. "Yeah he's mates with a notorious Orban defender, but his wife is pretty so it cancels it out, right?!"

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just two cool guys looking normal and alive, like humans

Friends, I LAUGHED

I had completely forgotten about that guy, just a slasher killer waiting to happen

The 80s have entered the chat!
Udo took a chance on my rinky-dink festival in Vancouver back in 2000 - he went on TV interviews with me, carried 35mm film prints up stairs, went to get me coffee and even live-dubbed Giancarlo Giannini's voice when BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA showed up without subs. RIP Udo, you were a star 🌟

SUPERB

Truly no one else has ever so effectively lived by fucking death in the gall bladder 🙏
Rest in peace, dear weird king 💔
BRING BACK UDO KIER RIGHT NOW. THAT'S ENOUGH SILLINESS.

One of the best stories I found while I was researching my book on Suspiria was that in between shooting, Argento would go drinking in Munich with Udo Kier, Fassbinder and Bowie. So wild that Argento is the only one left now.

Rest in peace, dear weird king 💔
RIP to the subject of the greatest character poster of all time
And now, our favorite single moment from our conversation with Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on MS. 45 #gday

To the one true God above
Here is my prayer
Not the first you've heard, but the first I wrote
Not the first, but the others were a long time ago
There are two people here, and I want you to kill them

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Autism. The Auts. Autismo. Autership Down.
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?

You and LH together though ❤️❤️❤️

Just superbly strange people making superbly strange films, the way it should be

Lizabeth Scott, not Lisbeth. What a dumb bitch I am!

I can't think of more of a bewildering decision to bury a horror film by a major studio since The Poughkeepsie Tapes, just spectacular self-owns in both cases