Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

@horrornonna.com

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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

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · Aug 26

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

A pile of books written by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

A poster for CHAIN REACTIONS - Alexandre O Philippe's Venice Lion winning documentary about the 50th anniversary of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and a copy of the book 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 10h

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 13h

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 15h

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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Chain Reactions (Alexandre O. Philippe, 2024) | Alex Pagliuca

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

That's media archeology, BABY! x

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

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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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

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Film still shows the words "girl gang" on an old cathode ray tube tv, from Lizzie Borden's film BORN IN FLAMES

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

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.

BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 1d

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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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 1d

Day Of The Woman: I Spit On Your Grave + I Spit On Your Grave: Deja Vu

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

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?!"

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 1d

just two cool guys looking normal and alive, like humans

Picture of Nick Cave, looking like a malnurished mannequin, standing next to Rod Dreher, who seems slightly damp and like he has a little secret.
Rod Dreher @roddreher • 3h
I don't know what you did tonight, but it wasn't as cool as my dinner with the great Nick Cave. What a lovely man.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

Friends, I LAUGHED

Kanye in a photoshopped Death in June hoodie

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

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

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

The 80s have entered the chat!

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Kier-La Janisse @kierlajanisse.bsky.social · 2d

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 🌟

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

SUPERB

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

Truly no one else has ever so effectively lived by fucking death in the gall bladder 🙏

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

Rest in peace, dear weird king 💔

Udo Kier w poodle portrait on cover of Travel Almanac

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Amy Gray @amygray.bsky.social · 2d

BRING BACK UDO KIER RIGHT NOW. THAT'S ENOUGH SILLINESS.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

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.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

Rest in peace, dear weird king 💔

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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 2d

RIP to the subject of the greatest character poster of all time

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 2d

And now, our favorite single moment from our conversation with Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on MS. 45 #gday

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

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

The Pope, surrounded by a group of men. The pope has his eyes closed, his hands around a microphone on a stand, and he's speaking into the mic.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

Autism. The Auts. Autismo. Autership Down.

Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 14d

What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 4d

You and LH together though ❤️❤️❤️

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 4d

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

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 4d

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

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 4d

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

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