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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The Thing
1982, in 20 top lists Check -
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Halloween
1978, in 17 top lists Check -
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They Live
1988, in 7 top lists Check -
1186 new
Escape from New York
1981, in 5 top lists Check -
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Assault on Precinct 13
1976, in 6 top lists Check -
383 -3
Big Trouble in Little China
1986, in 3 top lists Check -
1968 new
The Fog
1980, in 3 top lists Check -
4548 new
In the Mouth of Madness
1994, in 2 top lists Check -
922 -2
Dark Star
1974, in 7 top lists Check -
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Christine
1983, in 1 top list Check -
1933 new
Prince of Darkness
1987, in 1 top list Check -
1763 new
Escape from L.A.
1996, in 0 top lists Check -
2791 new
Vampires
1998, in 1 top list Check -
3490 new
Village of the Damned
1995, in 0 top lists Check -
3921 new
Ghosts of Mars
2001, in 0 top lists Check -
3074 new
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
1992, in 0 top lists Check -
1771 new
Someone's Watching Me!
1978, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Feb 27, 2013;