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. 100 -

    Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

    1980, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 133 -

    The Elephant Man

    1980, in 16 top lists Check
  3. 347 -3

    Great Performances: Count Dracula

    1977, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 577 -3

    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
  5. 608 -3

    The Magical World of Disney: Casebusters

    1986, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 857 -2

    Open Water

    2003, in 1 top list Check
  7. 1079 new

    Silkwood

    1983, in 4 top lists Check
  8. 1090 new

    All the President's Men

    1976, in 21 top lists Check
  9. 1414 new

    Raging Bull

    1980, in 34 top lists Check
  10. 1418 new

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  11. 1437 new

    Walking Tall Part II

    1975 — a.k.a. Legend of the Lawman, in 0 top lists Check
  12. 1509 new

    The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

    1977, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 1704 new

    Caravaggio

    1986, in 5 top lists Check
  14. 1717 new

    The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story

    2003, in 0 top lists Check
  15. 1718 new

    The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
  16. 1719 new

    The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to...

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
  17. 1749 new

    Heart Like a Wheel

    1983, in 0 top lists Check
  18. 1904 new

    The Entity

    1982, in 1 top list Check
  19. 2219 new

    Beatrice Cenci

    1969 — a.k.a. The Conspiracy of Torture, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 2350 new

    B.T.K. Killer

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
  21. 2505 new

    Heavenly Creatures

    1994, in 7 top lists Check
  22. 2573 new

    Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

    1986, in 7 top lists Check
  23. 2575 new

    Killer: A Journal of Murder

    1995, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 2576 new

    Dahmer

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 2577 new

    Ted Bundy

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
  26. 2578 new

    Gacy

    2003, in 0 top lists Check
  27. 2580 new

    In the Light of the Moon

    2000 — a.k.a. Ed Gein, in 1 top list Check
  28. 2709 new

    Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story

    1992, in 0 top lists Check
  29. 2710 new

    Monster

    2003, in 3 top lists Check
  30. 2722 new

    I Shot Andy Warhol

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
  31. 2760 new

    Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula

    2000, in 0 top lists Check
  32. 2930 new

    Gods and Monsters

    1998, in 2 top lists Check
  33. 3136 new

    Inside Deep Throat

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
  34. 3146 new

    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
  35. 3319 new

    Ed Wood

    1994, in 9 top lists Check
  36. 3534 new

    Last Days

    2005, in 5 top lists Check
  37. 3801 new

    The Song of Bernadette

    1943, in 4 top lists Check
  38. 3803 new

    Awakenings

    1990, in 1 top list Check
  39. 3809 new

    Communion

    1989, in 0 top lists Check
  40. 3861 new

    Omnibus: Whistle and I'll Come to You

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
  41. 3927 new

    Grizzly Man

    2005, in 9 top lists Check
  42. 3978 new

    A Beautiful Mind

    2001, in 12 top lists Check
  43. 3979 new

    Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
  44. 4023 new

    Finding Neverland

    2004, in 2 top lists Check
  45. 4256 new

    An American Crime

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
  46. 4276 new

    Braveheart

    1995, in 19 top lists Check
  47. 4378 new

    Marie Antoinette

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
  48. 4421 new

    The Straight Story

    1999, in 10 top lists Check
  49. 4541 new

    The Gathering Storm

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
  50. 4720 new

    Chisum

    1970, in 0 top lists Check
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