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 Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975, in 13 top lists Check -
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Hair
1979, in 3 top lists Check -
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Little Shop of Horrors
1986, in 3 top lists Check -
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New York, New York
1977, in 5 top lists Check -
1598 new
The Horror of Party Beach
1964, in 1 top list Check -
1612 new
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped...
1964, in 1 top list Check -
1672 new
Cry-Baby
1990, in 0 top lists Check -
1699 new
Shock Treatment
1981, in 0 top lists Check -
1732 new
Zachariah
1971, in 0 top lists Check -
1759 new
Shelf Life
1993, in 0 top lists Check -
2054 new
The Creature Wasn't Nice
1981, in 0 top lists Check -
2090 new
Big Meat Eater
1982, in 0 top lists Check -
2410 new
Pink Floyd: The Wall
1982, in 8 top lists Check -
2768 new
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
2002, in 2 top lists Check -
2858 new
Son of Dracula
1973, in 0 top lists Check -
2860 new
Rockula
1990, in 0 top lists Check -
2863 new
My Fair Lady
1964, in 18 top lists Check -
2933 new
Monster Mash: The Movie
1995, in 0 top lists Check -
2978 new
Outcast
2009, in 0 top lists Check -
3008 new
The Phantom of the Opera
2004, in 0 top lists Check -
3017 new
Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
2001, in 0 top lists Check -
3040 new
The Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Rock 'n Roll Musical
2003, in 0 top lists Check -
3053 new
Phantom of the Ritz
1988, in 0 top lists Check -
3094 new
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007, in 6 top lists Check -
3097 new
Corpse Bride
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
3473 new
Lost Horizon
1973, in 0 top lists Check -
3618 new
Carousel
1956, in 1 top list Check -
4180 new
Repo! The Genetic Opera
2008, in 1 top list Check -
4344 new
Dancer in the Dark
2000, in 9 top lists Check -
4530 new
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
1999, in 8 top lists Check -
4649 new
Dead & Breakfast
2004, in 0 top lists Check
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