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 Prisoner

    2009, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Shining

    1997, in 0 top lists Check
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    Storm of the Century

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
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    Rose Red

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
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    Salem's Lot

    1979, in 1 top list Check
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    Helter Skelter

    1976, in 0 top lists Check
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    From the Dead of Night

    1989, in 0 top lists Check
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    Grindhouse

    2007, in 1 top list Check
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    JFK

    1991, in 13 top lists Check
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    Intensity

    1997, in 0 top lists Check
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    Inland Empire

    2006, in 10 top lists Check
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    Whitechapel

    2009, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Andromeda Strain

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
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    Wilderness

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
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    Aftershock: Earthquake in New York

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
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    Pandemic

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    Firestarter 2: Rekindled

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Towering Inferno

    1974, in 5 top lists Check
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    The Firm

    1993, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Da Vinci Code

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
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    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
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    Twilight's Last Gleaming

    1977 — a.k.a. Nuclear Countdown, in 2 top lists Check
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    Casino Royale

    2006, in 7 top lists Check
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    The Devil's Advocate

    1997, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Day of the Jackal

    1973, in 3 top lists Check
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    Godzilla

    1998, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Talented Mr. Ripley

    1999, in 6 top lists Check
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    Angels & Demons

    2009, in 2 top lists Check
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    Shutter Island

    2010, in 8 top lists Check
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    Sleuth

    1972, in 4 top lists Check
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    Airport

    1970, in 2 top lists Check
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    Das Leben der Anderen

    2006 — a.k.a. The Lives of Others, in 20 top lists Check
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    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    1991, in 27 top lists Check
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    The Eagle Has Landed

    1976, in 1 top list Check
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    Bakjwi

    2009 — a.k.a. Thirst, in 2 top lists Check
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    Lost Highway

    1997, in 10 top lists Check
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    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    1992, in 6 top lists Check
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    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    1962, in 15 top lists Check
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    Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte

    1964, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Ninth Gate

    1999, in 1 top list Check
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    Dnevnoy dozor

    2006 — a.k.a. Day Watch, in 0 top lists Check
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    V for Vendetta

    2005, in 10 top lists Check
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    The Andromeda Strain

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
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    Hannibal

    2001, in 2 top lists Check
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    Silkwood

    1983, in 4 top lists Check
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    Marnie

    1964, in 8 top lists Check
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    The Prestige

    2006, in 15 top lists Check
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    The Cassandra Crossing

    1976, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Game

    1997, in 3 top lists Check
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    L: Change the World

    2008 — a.k.a. Death Note: L Change the World, in 0 top lists Check
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