Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

@horrornonna.com

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your horror nonna

dr/writer/producer/programmer/author of 10 books on cult + horror film

watch me in the documentaries CHAIN REACTIONS and Shudder's 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR 📽🔪👻

Naarm/Australia ▾ she/her https://linktr.ee/suspirialex .. more

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · Aug 26

New pinned post: I'm a critic + author of 10 books on cult + horror film including 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR (a new doc from Shudder coming soon) + I'm also in CHAIN REACTIONS, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre legacy doc, w/ Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Stephen King + Karyn Kusama. More here horrornonna.com

A pile of books written by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

A poster for CHAIN REACTIONS - Alexandre O Philippe's Venice Lion winning documentary about the 50th anniversary of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and a copy of the book 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1h

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 2h

Lasagne is savory baclava.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2h

I have never reposted something faster in my LIFE

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2h

trust is neither given nor earned. it forms naturally between people who share the experience of having listened to Skinny Puppy at or after 3 am in the dark by themselves

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 10h

Jesus fucking WEPT

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 14h

Not me! But there is a great chapter in this book about Paradise Lost and the original film if that's of interest if you've not read it yet?! www.google.com.au/books/editio...

Nothing that is

Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez's The Blair Witch Project seemingly appeared from nowhere to become one of 1999's highest grossing films. While generating revenue as a low budget movie backed by a m...

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 14h

Non-Australian critics, festival programmers, editors, folks who do acquisitions for home entertainment, etc - if you are curious about this treasure and would like a screener, hit me up!

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

AUSTRALIA! My friends have made an incredible horror film called Bunny which is basically Mad Max meets Trouble Every Day, and they are doing it full indie and self-distributing its theatrical release.

Naarm screenings are this weekend, times/dates/places below.

Please help me spread the word!

BUNNY | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Sneaky Films

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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 14h

As a treat: the cover to a sci-fi noir comic I pitched a few years back, drawn by the excellent Rich Ellis!

Comic book cover: a battered man's face hangs upside down over a city, surrounded by a halo of mushrooms. Title: THE HOLE IN THINGS.

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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 15h

Okay, so – as a movie I wrote will be coming out next year – throwing this out to the universe: I'd love to write a comic. Comics are basically my mother tongue.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

BUNNY screenings in Naarm:
- Sun Theatre, Yarraville – Thursday, 13 Nov, 7:00pm
- Lido Cinemas, Hawthorn – Friday 14 Nov, 9:00pm
- Thornbury Picture House - Saturday, 15 Nov, 4pm
- Eclipse Theatre, Collingwood – Sunday, 16 Nov, 7:00pm

Some sessions w/ your very own girl right here hosting a Q+A!

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

BUNNY | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Sneaky Films

www.youtube.com

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Alice Maio Mackay @alicemaiomackay.bsky.social · 1d

Melbourne ! I’m doing an in person q&a for my film on the 16th 🥰

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

HOW GOOD THOUGH

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

We need to form a girl gang with the cover art of this book on the back of our leather jackets!

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

Using any chance I get to push Susan Jefford's 1993 book 'Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era', such a foundational study when it comes to action cinema in particular

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Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social · 2d

Making this the 🧵 for publicity appearances for POPCORN DISABILITIES. Be sure to bookmark to find out where I'm going to be in promoting the book and the various great people who have allowed me to talk about the movie this month.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is *amazing*!!!!!!!!

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

MATE

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

I can't think of this loser and not think almost immediately of this:

Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People

OVERLAND PARK, KS–Stung by flagging album sales and Eminem’s supplanting him as Middle America’s worst nightmare, shock rocker Marilyn Manson has embarked on a door-to-door tour of suburbia in a despe...

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

Good luck!

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

I was just talking to a friend about exactly this: that Marilyn Manson is touring again but cEvin's cancer has returned feels like an astronomical karmic fuck up

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

Amazing!

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

💜💜💜💜💜

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

It fucken sucks hey

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 3d

Most Skinny Puppy fans will already be aware of this but cEvin Key's cancer has come back.

It's tough times for everyone right now, but if you have the cash to spare you can support him via Brap on Bandcamp, or through his Patreon

www.patreon.com/cEvinKey

brap.bandcamp.com/music

cEvin Key

brap.bandcamp.com

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 3d

“I’ve got a great marketing plan, we’ll get the dumbest motherfucker in our industry, one that just nobody respects, and we’ll have him say the most asinine thing possible and that will be our pull quote, it’s surefire

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 4d

And Carroll Baker has absolute and total old school giallo cred, at that!

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 4d

The international language aka "Alex and Josh talking AGAIN about increases in divorce rates in the 1970s and 80s and how that impacted representations of masculinity in mainstream Hollywood cinema"

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 4d

I'm multiskilled!

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