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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 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001, in 31 top lists Check
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    2002, in 26 top lists Check
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    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
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    El laberinto del fauno

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    Groundhog Day

    1993, in 22 top lists Check
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    Big Fish

    2003, in 7 top lists Check
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    Edward Scissorhands

    1990, in 10 top lists Check
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    The Nightmare Before Christmas

    1993, in 15 top lists Check
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    2003, in 13 top lists Check
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    Avatar

    2009, in 14 top lists Check
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    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
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    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    2004, in 9 top lists Check
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    Being John Malkovich

    1999, in 14 top lists Check
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    1984, in 13 top lists Check
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    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 37 top lists Check
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    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    2008, in 6 top lists Check
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    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

    2001, in 5 top lists Check
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    Beetlejuice

    1988, in 5 top lists Check
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    The Fall

    2006, in 6 top lists Check
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    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
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    Coraline

    2009, in 3 top lists Check
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    Stranger Than Fiction

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Mask

    1994, in 5 top lists Check
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    The Mummy

    1999, in 4 top lists Check
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    Bruce Almighty

    2003, in 4 top lists Check
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    Dogma

    1999, in 1 top list Check
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    Army of Darkness

    1992, in 6 top lists Check
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    Constantine

    2005, in 1 top list Check
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    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    1937, in 25 top lists Check
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    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
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    Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

    1999, in 5 top lists Check
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    Corpse Bride

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
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    Vanilla Sky

    2001, in 2 top lists Check
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    Labyrinth

    1986, in 4 top lists Check
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    Alice in Wonderland

    2010, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Crow

    1994, in 4 top lists Check
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    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
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    Lost

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
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    Enter the Void

    2009, in 7 top lists Check
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    Ghost

    1990, in 9 top lists Check
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    The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

    2009, in 0 top lists Check
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    Hellboy

    2004, in 1 top list Check
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    Cinderella

    1950, in 6 top lists Check
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    Vincent

    1982, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Mummy Returns

    2001, in 3 top lists Check
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    Hellboy II: The Golden Army

    2008, in 1 top list Check
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    Ghostbusters II

    1989, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Addams Family

    1991, in 2 top lists Check
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    Twilight

    2008, in 2 top lists Check
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