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 Premature Burial
1962, in 0 top lists Check -
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Rock All Night
1957, in 1 top list Check -
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House of Usher
1960, in 2 top lists Check -
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A Bucket of Blood
1959, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Wild Angels
1966, in 2 top lists Check -
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Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the...
1970, in 1 top list Check -
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The Haunted Palace
1963, in 1 top list Check -
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The Terror
1963, in 0 top lists Check -
1601 new
The Little Shop of Horrors
1960, in 2 top lists Check -
1602 new
Creature from the Haunted Sea
1961, in 0 top lists Check -
1713 new
The Masque of the Red Death
1964, in 3 top lists Check -
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Attack of the Crab Monsters
1957, in 0 top lists Check -
2718 new
The Trip
1967, in 3 top lists Check -
2939 new
Frankenstein Unbound
1990, in 1 top list Check -
3488 new
It Conquered the World
1956 — a.k.a. It Conquered the Earth, in 0 top lists Check -
3493 new
The Wasp Woman
1959 — a.k.a. Insect Woman, in 0 top lists Check -
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Teenage Cave Man
1958 — a.k.a. Out of the Darkness, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Intruder
1962, in 1 top list Check -
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The Pit and the Pendulum
1961, in 1 top list Check
Last updated on Feb 27, 2013;