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. 16 -

    Attica

    1974, in 1 top list Check
  2. 18 -

    Assault on Precinct 13

    1976, in 6 top lists Check
  3. 28 -

    She-Devils on Wheels

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 38 -

    Homicide: Life on the Street

    1993, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 50 -

    Pink Flamingos

    1972, in 13 top lists Check
  6. 82 -

    Rock All Night

    1957, in 1 top list Check
  7. 92 -

    Helter Skelter

    1976, in 0 top lists Check
  8. 95 -

    The Night God Screamed

    1971, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 118 -

    Wall Street

    1987, in 3 top lists Check
  10. 119 -

    Natural Born Killers

    1994, in 9 top lists Check
  11. 126 -

    Scream and Scream Again

    1970 — a.k.a. Screamer, in 1 top list Check
  12. 143 -

    The Avengers

    1961, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 147 -

    Murders in the Rue Morgue

    1971, in 0 top lists Check
  14. 156 -1

    Arsenic and Old Lace

    1944, in 9 top lists Check
  15. 168 -2

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    1949, in 20 top lists Check
  16. 169 -2

    The Ladykillers

    1955, in 8 top lists Check
  17. 174 -2

    Nothing But the Night

    1973, in 0 top lists Check
  18. 202 -2

    Madhouse

    1974, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 211 -2

    Killer's Moon

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 216 -2

    Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  21. 220 -2

    Performance

    1970, in 16 top lists Check
  22. 230 -2

    Night After Night After Night

    1969, in 0 top lists Check
  23. 231 -2

    Die Screaming Marianne

    1971 — a.k.a. Die, Beautiful Marianne, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 260 -3

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 281 -3

    Starsky and Hutch: The Vampire

    1976, in 0 top lists Check
  26. 292 -3

    Sugar Hill

    1974, in 0 top lists Check
  27. 295 -3

    The Night Strangler

    1973, in 0 top lists Check
  28. 299 -3

    Curse of the Black Widow

    1977, in 0 top lists Check
  29. 364 -3

    Desire, the Vampire

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  30. 406 -3

    Kiss Me Deadly

    1955, in 20 top lists Check
  31. 413 -3

    Bad Day at Black Rock

    1955, in 7 top lists Check
  32. 438 -3

    Satan's School for Girls

    1973, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 503 -3

    The Exorcism of Emily Rose

    2005, in 1 top list Check
  34. 541 -3

    The Oracle

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  35. 575 -3

    Moonshine County Express

    1977, in 0 top lists Check
  36. 576 -3

    The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

    1976, in 0 top lists Check
  37. 577 -3

    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
  38. 600 -3

    Jungfrukällan

    1960 — a.k.a. The Virgin Spring, in 10 top lists Check
  39. 612 -3

    Autostop rosso sangue

    1977 — a.k.a. Hitch-Hike, in 0 top lists Check
  40. 616 -3

    Thelma & Louise

    1991, in 13 top lists Check
  41. 617 -3

    Jackson County Jail

    1976, in 0 top lists Check
  42. 618 -3

    Demented

    1980, in 0 top lists Check
  43. 619 -3

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Revenge

    1955, in 0 top lists Check
  44. 622 -3

    Fight for Your Life

    1977 — a.k.a. Blood Bath at 1313 Fury Road, in 1 top list Check
  45. 631 -3

    The Evictors

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  46. 634 -3

    Sunday in the Country

    1974, in 0 top lists Check
  47. 652 -3

    Deranged

    1974 — a.k.a. Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile, in 1 top list Check
  48. 670 -3

    Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

    1974, in 10 top lists Check
  49. 684 -3

    Vice Squad

    1982, in 1 top list Check
  50. 685 -3

    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    1986, in 0 top lists Check
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