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. 65 -

    Porky's

    1981, in 2 top lists Check
  2. 77 -

    La tumba de los muertos vivientes

    1982 — a.k.a. Oasis of the Zombies, in 0 top lists Check
  3. 79 -

    La morte vivante

    1982 — a.k.a. The Living Dead Girl, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 103 -

    Split Image

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 227 -2

    Los ritos sexuales del diablo

    1982 — a.k.a. Black Candles, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 309 -3

    Eating Raoul

    1982, in 2 top lists Check
  7. 345 -3

    Time Walker

    1982 — a.k.a. Being from Another Planet, in 0 top lists Check
  8. 364 -3

    Desire, the Vampire

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 374 -3

    Ren xia ren

    1982 — a.k.a. The Dead and the Deadly, in 0 top lists Check
  10. 458 -3

    Superstition

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  11. 491 -3

    Amityville II: The Possession

    1982, in 1 top list Check
  12. 531 -3

    One Dark Night

    1982 — a.k.a. Entity Force, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 534 -3

    The Sender

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  14. 583 -3

    Poltergeist

    1982, in 9 top lists Check
  15. 603 -3

    Swamp Thing

    1982, in 1 top list Check
  16. 639 -3

    Trapped

    1982 — a.k.a. Baker County, U.S.A., in 0 top lists Check
  17. 640 -3

    The Forest

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  18. 641 -3

    Madman

    1981, in 1 top list Check
  19. 642 -3

    Mother Lode

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 646 -3

    Midnight

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  21. 678 -3

    First Blood

    1982, in 5 top lists Check
  22. 684 -3

    Vice Squad

    1982, in 1 top list Check
  23. 693 -3

    Deadly Eyes

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 836 -2

    Blood Tide

    1982 — a.k.a. Bloodtide, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 868 -2

    Dogs of Hell

    1982 — a.k.a. Rottweiler, in 0 top lists Check
  26. 912 -2

    White Dog

    1982, in 7 top lists Check
  27. 923 -2

    Tron

    1982, in 5 top lists Check
  28. 971 -2

    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
  29. 972 -2

    Android

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  30. 1019 -2

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    1982, in 30 top lists Check
  31. 1100 new

    Endangered Species

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  32. 1116 new

    Missing

    1982, in 5 top lists Check
  33. 1183 new

    Café Flesh

    1982, in 1 top list Check
  34. 1188 new

    Class of 1984

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  35. 1190 new

    Death Wish II

    1982, in 1 top list Check
  36. 1200 new

    The Aftermath

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  37. 1201 new

    Parasite

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  38. 1209 new

    Turkey Shoot

    1982, in 1 top list Check
  39. 1211 new

    Warlords of the 21st Century

    1982 — a.k.a. Battletruck, in 0 top lists Check
  40. 1223 new

    1990: I guerrieri del Bronx

    1982 — a.k.a. 1990: The Bronx Warriors, in 1 top list Check
  41. 1277 new

    Death Valley

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  42. 1280 new

    The Seduction

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  43. 1371 new

    Alone in the Dark

    1982, in 1 top list Check
  44. 1376 new

    The Concrete Jungle

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  45. 1394 new

    Lo squartatore di New York

    1982 — a.k.a. The New York Ripper, in 1 top list Check
  46. 1410 new

    Pandemonium

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  47. 1415 new

    The King of Comedy

    1982, in 15 top lists Check
  48. 1436 new

    Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

    1981, in 0 top lists Check
  49. 1469 new

    Tenebre

    1982 — a.k.a. Tenebrae, in 4 top lists Check
  50. 1500 new

    Q

    1982 — a.k.a. Q: The Winged Serpent, in 2 top lists Check
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