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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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    X the Unknown

    1956, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Children

    2008, in 1 top list Check
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    Awaken the Dead

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Dead Outside

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
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    Warbirds

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Relic

    1997, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Twilight Zone: The Invaders

    1961, in 0 top lists Check
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    2010: The Year We Make Contact

    1984 — a.k.a. 2010, in 0 top lists Check
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    Blindness

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
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    Witch Hunt

    1994, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Birthday

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Call of Cthulhu

    2005, in 1 top list Check
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    Dagon

    2001, in 2 top lists Check
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    Castle Freak

    1995, in 1 top list Check
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    In the Mouth of Madness

    1994, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Da Vinci Code

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
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    The Body

    2001, in 0 top lists Check
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    Case 39

    2009, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Order

    2003 — a.k.a. The Sin Eater, in 0 top lists Check
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    Omen IV: The Awakening

    1991, in 0 top lists Check
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    Revelations

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Eighteenth Angel

    1997, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Ninth Gate

    1999, in 1 top list Check
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    The Devil's Advocate

    1997, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Rapture

    1991, in 3 top lists Check
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    It

    1990, in 1 top list Check
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    Contact

    1997, in 2 top lists Check
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    Linkeroever

    2008 — a.k.a. Left Bank, in 1 top list Check
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    Hotel

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
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    Population 436

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Skeleton Key

    2005, in 1 top list Check
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    Damien's Seed

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
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    The People Under the Stairs

    1991, in 2 top lists Check
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    Parents

    1989, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Twilight Zone: The Monsters Are Due on...

    1960, in 0 top lists Check
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    Slaughter Studios

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
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    KM 31: Kilómetro 31

    2006 — a.k.a. KM 31: Kilometre 31, in 0 top lists Check
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    La venganza de la llorona

    1974 — a.k.a. Vengeance of the Crying Woman, in 0 top lists Check
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    La maldición de la Llorona

    1963 — a.k.a. The Curse of the Crying Woman, in 0 top lists Check
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    El grito de la muerte

    1959 — a.k.a. The Living Coffin, in 0 top lists Check
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    La herencia de la Llorona

    1947 — a.k.a. The Heritage of the Crying Woman, in 0 top lists Check
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    La llorona

    1933 — a.k.a. The Crying Woman, in 0 top lists Check
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    Inland Empire

    2006, in 10 top lists Check
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    Lost Highway

    1997, in 10 top lists Check
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    Jericho

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
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    Push, Nevada

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
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    Roswell

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
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    Carnivàle

    2003, in 0 top lists Check
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    Millennium

    2010, in 0 top lists Check
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    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    1992, in 6 top lists Check
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