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. 74 -

    Zombi 2

    1979 — a.k.a. Zombie, in 4 top lists Check
  2. 85 -

    Hair

    1979, in 3 top lists Check
  3. 98 -

    Guyana: Crime of the Century

    1979 — a.k.a. Guyana: Cult of the Damned, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 165 -2

    The Lady Vanishes

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 307 -3

    Thirst

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 316 -3

    Graf Dracula in Oberbayern

    1979 — a.k.a. Dracula Blows His Cool, in 0 top lists Check
  7. 338 -3

    Dracula

    1979, in 1 top list Check
  8. 339 -3

    Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht

    1979 — a.k.a. Nosferatu the Vampyre, in 5 top lists Check
  9. 348 -3

    Love at First Bite

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  10. 350 -3

    Nocturna

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  11. 362 -3

    Salem's Lot

    1979, in 1 top list Check
  12. 363 -3

    Vampire

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 370 -3

    Dip bin

    1979 — a.k.a. The Butterfly Murders, in 3 top lists Check
  14. 412 -3

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  15. 517 -3

    Phantasm

    1979, in 2 top lists Check
  16. 573 -3

    Wise Blood

    1979, in 7 top lists Check
  17. 579 -3

    The Dark

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  18. 631 -3

    The Evictors

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 635 -3

    Savage Weekend

    1979 — a.k.a. The Upstate Murders, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 644 -3

    Tourist Trap

    1979, in 1 top list Check
  21. 732 -3

    Prophecy

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  22. 828 -2

    1941

    1979, in 1 top list Check
  23. 835 -2

    Killer Fish

    1979 — a.k.a. Deadly Treasure of the Piranha, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 859 -2

    Up from the Depths

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 886 -2

    Revenge of Bigfoot

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  26. 887 -2

    Screams of a Winter Night

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  27. 905 -2

    Nightwing

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  28. 951 -2

    Mad Max

    1979, in 13 top lists Check
  29. 1008 -2

    Meteor

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  30. 1009 -2

    Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  31. 1016 -2

    Disaster on the Coastliner

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  32. 1020 -2

    Hurricane

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 1050 -2

    Plague

    1979 — a.k.a. M-3: The Gemini Strain, in 0 top lists Check
  34. 1075 new

    The China Syndrome

    1979, in 3 top lists Check
  35. 1092 new

    The Clonus Horror

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  36. 1107 new

    Winter Kills

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  37. 1165 new

    Ravagers

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  38. 1321 new

    The Psychotronic Man

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  39. 1338 new

    Suor Omicidi

    1979 — a.k.a. The Killer Nun, in 0 top lists Check
  40. 1378 new

    Human Experiments

    1979 — a.k.a. Beyond the Gate, in 0 top lists Check
  41. 1385 new

    The Driller Killer

    1979, in 2 top lists Check
  42. 1393 new

    Murder by Decree

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  43. 1398 new

    Time After Time

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  44. 1423 new

    Natural Enemies

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  45. 1433 new

    When a Stranger Calls

    1979, in 1 top list Check
  46. 1435 new

    Bloodrage

    1980, in 0 top lists Check
  47. 1447 new

    Over the Edge

    1979, in 1 top list Check
  48. 1540 new

    The Brood

    1979, in 5 top lists Check
  49. 1542 new

    Fast Company

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  50. 1577 new

    The Rose

    1979, in 1 top list Check
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