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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1982 — a.k.a. Q: The Winged Serpent, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Stuff
1985, in 2 top lists Check -
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Black Caesar
1973 — a.k.a. The Godfather of Harlem, in 1 top list Check -
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God Told Me To
1976, in 1 top list Check -
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Hell Up in Harlem
1973, in 1 top list Check -
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It's Alive
1974, in 1 top list Check -
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The Ambulance
1990, in 0 top lists Check -
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As Good as Dead
1995, in 0 top lists Check -
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Bone
1972 — a.k.a. Dial Rat, in 0 top lists Check -
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Deadly Illusion
1987 — a.k.a. I Love You to Death, in 0 top lists Check -
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Full Moon High
1981, in 0 top lists Check -
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It Lives Again
1978 — a.k.a. It's Alive II, in 0 top lists Check -
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It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
1987, in 0 top lists Check -
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Masters of Horror: Pick Me Up
2006, in 0 top lists Check -
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Original Gangstas
1996 — a.k.a. Hot City, in 0 top lists Check -
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Perfect Strangers
1984, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
1977, in 0 top lists Check -
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A Return to Salem's Lot
1987, in 0 top lists Check -
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Special Effects
1984, in 0 top lists Check -
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Wicked Stepmother
1989, in 0 top lists Check
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