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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  1. 13 -

    Halloween

    1978, in 17 top lists Check
  2. 18 -

    Assault on Precinct 13

    1976, in 6 top lists Check
  3. 383 -3

    Big Trouble in Little China

    1986, in 3 top lists Check
  4. 922 -2

    Dark Star

    1974, in 7 top lists Check
  5. 958 -2

    Christine

    1983, in 1 top list Check
  6. 1186 new

    Escape from New York

    1981, in 5 top lists Check
  7. 1763 new

    Escape from L.A.

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
  8. 1771 new

    Someone's Watching Me!

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 1933 new

    Prince of Darkness

    1987, in 1 top list Check
  10. 1968 new

    The Fog

    1980, in 3 top lists Check
  11. 1980 new

    The Thing

    1982, in 20 top lists Check
  12. 2125 new

    They Live

    1988, in 7 top lists Check
  13. 2791 new

    Vampires

    1998, in 1 top list Check
  14. 3074 new

    Memoirs of an Invisible Man

    1992, in 0 top lists Check
  15. 3490 new

    Village of the Damned

    1995, in 0 top lists Check
  16. 3921 new

    Ghosts of Mars

    2001, in 0 top lists Check
  17. 4548 new

    In the Mouth of Madness

    1994, in 2 top lists Check
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