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 Hills Have Eyes
1977, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
1988, in 2 top lists Check -
596 -3
The Last House on the Left
1972, in 4 top lists Check -
597 -3
Stranger in Our House
1978 — a.k.a. Summer of Fear, in 0 top lists Check -
598 -3
Deadly Blessing
1981, in 0 top lists Check -
599 -3
The Hills Have Eyes Part II
1984, in 0 top lists Check -
603 -3
Swamp Thing
1982, in 1 top list Check -
604 -3
Deadly Friend
1986, in 0 top lists Check -
605 -3
Invitation to Hell
1984, in 0 top lists Check -
606 -3
Chiller
1985, in 0 top lists Check -
608 -3
The Magical World of Disney: Casebusters
1986, in 0 top lists Check -
610 -3
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984, in 8 top lists Check -
2439 new
Scream
1996, in 8 top lists Check -
2567 new
Shocker
1989, in 1 top list Check -
2757 new
Vampire in Brooklyn
1995, in 0 top lists Check -
3004 new
Cursed
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
3134 new
Scream 2
1997, in 3 top lists Check -
3154 new
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994, in 2 top lists Check -
3318 new
Music of the Heart
1999, in 0 top lists Check -
3329 new
Scream 3
2000, in 2 top lists Check -
3332 new
Scream 4
2011, in 1 top list Check -
4309 new
Red Eye
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
4447 new
The People Under the Stairs
1991, in 2 top lists Check
Last updated on Feb 27, 2013;