Kim Newman's Nightmare Movies
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This list contains all movies mentioned in Kim Newman's "Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s"; an encycopaedic critical reference guide to modern horror, taking Night of the Living Dead (1968) as its starting point, and continuing to the publication date of the second edition in 2011. While chiefly concerned with the evolution of the horror film, the book will occasionally mention non-horror to compare and contrast.
#1-119: Chapter 1 - Shoot 'Em in the Head! or The Birth of the Hate Generation
#120-273: Chapter 2 - The Indian Summer of the British Horror Film
#274-396: Chapter 3 - The Changing Face of Classical Gothic:
#397-563: Chapter 4 - Devil Movies or: "If the mousse tastes chalky, don't eat it."
#564-687: Chapter 5 - Deep in the Heart of Texas or: The Down-Home, Up-Country, Multi-Implement Massacre Movie
#688-1245: Chapter 6 - Paranoia Paradise or: Five Things to Worry About
#1246-1460: Chapter 7 - Tales of Ordinary Madness or: The Close-Up Crazies
#1461-1595: Chapter 8 - Auteurs
#1596-1764: Chapter 9 - The Weirdo Horror Film or: Cult, Kitsch, Camp, Sick, Punk and Pornography
#1765-1889: Chapter 10 - Psycho Movies or: "I didn't Raise my Girl to be a Severed Head"
#1890-1977: Chapter 11 - Ghost Stories
#1978-2162: Chapter 12 - Return to the past
#2163-2331: Chapter 13 - Cannibal Zombie Gut-Crunchers - Italian Style!
#2332-2398: Chapter 14 - Fun with the Living Dead
#2399-2428: Postscript: The Post-Modern Horror Film
#2429-2723: Chapter 2.1 - The Lecter Variations
#2724-3133: Chapter 2.2 - Vampires and Other Stereotypes
#3134-3604: Chapter 2.3 - Scream and Scream Again: Franchises, Post-Modernism, Remakes
#3605-3973: Chapter 2.4 - At First Just Ghostly
#3974-4151: Chapter 2.5 - Virtual Realities and Imaginary Friends
#4152-4351: Chapter 2.6 - Why Are Your Doing This to Me?
#4352-4439: Chapter 2.7 - More Auteurs
#4440-4720: Chapter 2.8 - Zombie Apocalypse Now!
#4721-4725: Postscript: There will still be blood
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Shivers
1975, in 3 top lists Check -
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Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic)
1969, in 0 top lists Check -
1538 new
Crimes of the Future
1970, in 0 top lists Check -
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Rabid
1977, in 1 top list Check -
1540 new
The Brood
1979, in 5 top lists Check -
1541 new
Scanners
1981, in 4 top lists Check -
1542 new
Fast Company
1979, in 0 top lists Check -
1543 new
Videodrome
1983, in 18 top lists Check -
1545 new
The Dead Zone
1983, in 1 top list Check -
1546 new
The Fly
1986, in 11 top lists Check -
1547 new
Dead Ringers
1988, in 12 top lists Check -
1548 new
eXistenZ
1999, in 3 top lists Check -
1549 new
Naked Lunch
1991, in 4 top lists Check -
1550 new
Crash
1996, in 9 top lists Check -
1551 new
Spider
2002, in 5 top lists Check -
1552 new
A History of Violence
2005, in 11 top lists Check -
1553 new
M. Butterfly
1993, in 1 top list Check -
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Eastern Promises
2007, in 5 top lists Check
Last updated on Feb 27, 2013;