Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Your very own horror nonna is here to help

Contributor at FANGORIA, since 2022

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is a film critic, filmmaker, recovering academic and the author of ten books on cult, horror and exploitation cinema. In 2024, she was the recipient of the 2024 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Writer of the Year Award. Her 2020 book 1000 Women in Horror was adapted in 2025 into a feature documentary from Shudder of the same name (directed by Donna Davies), and Heller-Nicholas also appears in Alexandre O. Philippe's documentary Chain Reactions alongside Stephen King, Karyn Kusama, Takashi Miike and Patton Oswalt, which marked the 50th anniversary of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and won the Best Documentary on Cinema Award at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.

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Wild Women With Steak Knives: ROOMMATES Is Ready For An International Cult Following
ByAlexandra Heller-Nicholas

Revisiting Eun-kyung Kim's South Korean horror.
Wild Women With Steak Knives: EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE
ByAlexandra Heller-Nicholas

Anne Goursaud delivers a double punch of a pre-CHARMED Alyssa Milano and pre-THE CRAFT Rachel True.
Wild Women With Steak Knives: THE DORM
ByAlexandra Heller-Nicholas

The FREDDY'S DEAD director serves up killer makeovers in this underseen MTV movie.
Wild Women With Steak Knives: IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY
ByAlexandra Heller-Nicholas

Revisiting Kayoko Asakura's 2013 Japanese horror in the barren California desert.
Wild Women With Steak Knives: Tina Krause’s LIMBO
ByAlexandra Heller-Nicholas

Described as "what might happen if David Lynch and Nine Inch Nails collaborated on a shot-on-video horror movie."
Wild Women With Steak Knives: DARK ANGEL – THE ASCENT
ByAlexandra Heller-Nicholas

Director Linda Hassani takes us from softcore Playboy anthologies to horny horror fantasy.
Wild Women With Steak Knives: BIZARRE (Giuliana Gamba, 1987)
ByAlexandra Heller-Nicholas

Revisiting Giovanna Lenzi's DELITTI and Gamba's PROFUMO.
Wild Women With Steak Knives: BLACK MAGIC WOMAN (Deryn Warren, 1991)
ByAlexandra Heller-Nicholas

Humping its way through soft focus, BLACK MAGIC WOMAN may take you by surprise.
Wild Women With Steak Knives: THE SHADOW WITHIN (Silvana Zancolò, 2007)
ByAlexandra Heller-Nicholas

The dark half.
Wild Women With Steak Knives: BLOOD SABBATH (Brianne Murphy, 1972)
ByAlexandra Heller-Nicholas

PTSD au go go.

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