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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Platoon
1986, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
1971, in 2 top lists Check -
569 -3
The Beguiled
1971, in 3 top lists Check -
828 -2
1941
1979, in 1 top list Check -
1182 new
Massive Retaliation
1984, in 0 top lists Check -
1234 new
Red Dawn
1984, in 3 top lists Check -
1243 new
Threads
1984, in 4 top lists Check -
1452 new
Combat Shock
1984, in 0 top lists Check -
1568 new
Redacted
2007, in 1 top list Check -
1595 new
Casualties of War
1989, in 2 top lists Check -
1668 new
Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
1975, in 2 top lists Check -
1722 new
Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
1834 new
Under Fire
1983, in 0 top lists Check -
1950 new
Full Metal Jacket
1987, in 18 top lists Check -
2059 new
The Steel Helmet
1951, in 2 top lists Check -
2060 new
Merrill's Marauders
1962, in 0 top lists Check -
2111 new
Zone Troopers
1985, in 0 top lists Check -
2164 new
The Deer Hunter
1978, in 26 top lists Check -
2165 new
L'ultimo cacciatore
1980 — a.k.a. Hunter of the Apocalypse, in 0 top lists Check -
2166 new
Apocalypse Now
1979, in 37 top lists Check -
2182 new
Lager SSadis Kastrat Kommandantur
1976 — a.k.a. SS Experiment Love Camp, in 0 top lists Check -
2184 new
L'ultima orgia del III Reich
1977 — a.k.a. The Gestapo's Last Orgy, in 0 top lists Check -
2185 new
Le deportate della sezione speciale SS
1976 — a.k.a. Deported Women of the SS Special Section, in 0 top lists Check -
2186 new
Love Camp 7
1969, in 0 top lists Check -
2417 new
Empire of the Sun
1987, in 9 top lists Check -
2420 new
Off Limits
1988 — a.k.a. Saigon, in 0 top lists Check -
3100 new
Grey Knight
1993 — a.k.a. The Killing Box, in 0 top lists Check -
3323 new
The English Patient
1996, in 19 top lists Check -
3826 new
The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009, in 0 top lists Check -
3876 new
The Haunted Airman
2006, in 0 top lists Check -
3906 new
Deathwatch
2002, in 0 top lists Check -
3923 new
Culloden
1964 — a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden, in 5 top lists Check -
3924 new
The War Game
1966, in 12 top lists Check -
4092 new
It Happened Here
1964, in 1 top list Check -
4097 new
Inglourious Basterds
2009, in 17 top lists Check -
4282 new
Taxi to the Dark Side
2007, in 2 top lists Check -
4283 new
Standard Operating Procedure
2008, in 0 top lists Check -
4372 new
El laberinto del fauno
2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
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