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. 15 -

    The World, the Flesh and the Devil

    1959, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 124 -

    The Curse of the Werewolf

    1961, in 1 top list Check
  3. 134 -

    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    1981, in 3 top lists Check
  4. 245 -3

    The Cold Room

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 247 -3

    My Beautiful Laundrette

    1985, in 7 top lists Check
  6. 248 -3

    Letter to Brezhnev

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  7. 278 -3

    Count Yorga, Vampire

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  8. 338 -3

    Dracula

    1979, in 1 top list Check
  9. 341 -3

    The Bride

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  10. 348 -3

    Love at First Bite

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  11. 357 -3

    Bram Stoker's Dracula

    1992, in 6 top lists Check
  12. 365 -3

    The Hunger

    1983, in 2 top lists Check
  13. 390 -3

    My Best Friend Is a Vampire

    1987 — a.k.a. I Was a Teenage Vampire, in 0 top lists Check
  14. 398 -3

    The Sorrows of Satan

    1926, in 0 top lists Check
  15. 400 -3

    Angel on My Shoulder

    1946, in 0 top lists Check
  16. 427 -3

    Spellbinder

    1988, in 0 top lists Check
  17. 463 -3

    There's Always Vanilla

    1971, in 0 top lists Check
  18. 472 -3

    Twilight

    2008, in 2 top lists Check
  19. 559 -3

    Legend

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 565 -3

    Red River

    1948, in 16 top lists Check
  21. 568 -3

    Mandingo

    1975, in 1 top list Check
  22. 569 -3

    The Beguiled

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
  23. 571 -3

    Jezebel

    1938, in 7 top lists Check
  24. 668 -3

    The Wraith

    1986, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 692 -3

    The Seven Year Itch

    1955, in 3 top lists Check
  26. 708 -3

    Frogs

    1972, in 1 top list Check
  27. 831 -2

    ¡Tintorera!

    1977 — a.k.a. Tintorera: Killer Shark, in 0 top lists Check
  28. 860 -2

    Piranha Part Two: The Spawning

    1982 — a.k.a. Piranha II: The Spawning, in 0 top lists Check
  29. 997 -2

    Making Mr. Right

    1987, in 0 top lists Check
  30. 999 -2

    Bicentennial Man

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
  31. 1033 -2

    Titanic

    1997, in 25 top lists Check
  32. 1069 -2

    The Andromeda Strain

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 1099 new

    Rollover

    1981, in 0 top lists Check
  34. 1104 new

    Seven Days in May

    1964, in 2 top lists Check
  35. 1125 new

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    1984 — a.k.a. 1984, in 3 top lists Check
  36. 1131 new

    Firebird 2015 AD

    1981, in 0 top lists Check
  37. 1238 new

    Top Gun

    1986, in 8 top lists Check
  38. 1249 new

    Love from a Stranger

    1937, in 0 top lists Check
  39. 1261 new

    Pretty Poison

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
  40. 1341 new

    The Honeymoon Killers

    1970 — a.k.a. The Lonely Hearts Killers, in 5 top lists Check
  41. 1354 new

    Spellbound

    1945, in 8 top lists Check
  42. 1363 new

    Color of Night

    1994, in 0 top lists Check
  43. 1389 new

    China Girl

    1987, in 0 top lists Check
  44. 1398 new

    Time After Time

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
  45. 1411 new

    Mean Streets

    1973, in 22 top lists Check
  46. 1420 new

    The Mad Genius

    1931, in 0 top lists Check
  47. 1453 new

    Crimes of Passion

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
  48. 1457 new

    Play Misty for Me

    1971, in 4 top lists Check
  49. 1458 new

    Fatal Attraction

    1987, in 11 top lists Check
  50. 1465 new

    L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo

    1970 — a.k.a. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, in 5 top lists Check
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