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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. 62 -

    Hard Rock Zombies

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 63 -

    The Return of the Living Dead

    1985, in 3 top lists Check
  3. 97 -

    Stryker's War

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 101 -

    Inferno in diretta

    1984 — a.k.a. Cut and Run, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 135 -

    The Doctor and the Devils

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 247 -3

    My Beautiful Laundrette

    1985, in 7 top lists Check
  7. 248 -3

    Letter to Brezhnev

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  8. 253 -3

    Daemon

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 261 -3

    Young Sherlock Holmes

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  10. 262 -3

    Underworld

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  11. 341 -3

    The Bride

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  12. 378 -3

    Geung see sin sang

    1985 — a.k.a. Mr. Vampire, in 2 top lists Check
  13. 379 -3

    Qi yuan

    1985 — a.k.a. The Affair from Nepal, in 0 top lists Check
  14. 384 -3

    Fright Night

    1985, in 2 top lists Check
  15. 388 -3

    Once Bitten

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  16. 541 -3

    The Oracle

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  17. 547 -3

    Night Train to Terror

    1985, in 1 top list Check
  18. 551 -3

    Re-Animator

    1985, in 7 top lists Check
  19. 559 -3

    Legend

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 584 -3

    Lifeforce

    1985, in 1 top list Check
  21. 606 -3

    Chiller

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  22. 607 -3

    The Twilight Zone

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  23. 625 -3

    Psycho Girls

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 665 -3

    Pale Rider

    1985, in 1 top list Check
  25. 888 -2

    The Barbaric Beast of Boggy Creek, Part II

    1984 — a.k.a. Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues, in 0 top lists Check
  26. 969 -2

    The Annihilators

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  27. 1052 -2

    Warning Sign

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  28. 1120 new

    Orions belte

    1985 — a.k.a. Orion's Belt, in 1 top list Check
  29. 1132 new

    Brazil

    1985, in 23 top lists Check
  30. 1158 new

    Edge of Darkness

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  31. 1185 new

    Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

    1985, in 1 top list Check
  32. 1191 new

    Death Wish 3

    1985, in 2 top lists Check
  33. 1202 new

    Future-Kill

    1985 — a.k.a. Splatter, in 0 top lists Check
  34. 1203 new

    Radioactive Dreams

    1985, in 1 top list Check
  35. 1212 new

    The Quiet Earth

    1985, in 3 top lists Check
  36. 1221 new

    Def-Con 4

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  37. 1237 new

    Invasion U.S.A.

    1985 — a.k.a. Invasion USA, in 1 top list Check
  38. 1380 new

    Hellhole

    1985 — a.k.a. Hell Hole, in 0 top lists Check
  39. 1381 new

    Lies

    1983, in 0 top lists Check
  40. 1390 new

    Miami Vice: The Home Invaders

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  41. 1391 new

    Miami Vice: The Dutch Oven

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  42. 1396 new

    Bridge Across Time

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  43. 1397 new

    The Ripper

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  44. 1407 new

    Santa Claus: The Movie

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  45. 1417 new

    After Hours

    1985, in 7 top lists Check
  46. 1449 new

    The Boys Next Door

    1985 — a.k.a. Big Shots, in 0 top lists Check
  47. 1487 new

    Phenomena

    1985, in 1 top list Check
  48. 1488 new

    Dèmoni

    1985 — a.k.a. Demons, in 2 top lists Check
  49. 1504 new

    The Stuff

    1985, in 2 top lists Check
  50. 1636 new

    The Lost Empire

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
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