Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is a two-time Bram Stoker Award finalist and film critic from Melbourne, Australia. She has published nine books on cult, horror and exploitation cinema with an emphasis on gender politics, including the recently revised Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (2011/2021), Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality (2014), books on Dario Argento’s Suspiria (2015), Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 (2017) and Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher (2018), Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces (2019), 1000 Women in Horror 1895-2018 (2020), and The Giallo Canvas: Art, Excess and Horror Cinema (2021). She is on the editorial board for the University of Wales Press series Horror Studies, and a member of the advisory board for the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies (LA/NYC/London). Alexandra holds a PhD in Screen Studies from the University of Melbourne and is an Adjunct Professor at Deakin University. She is a columnist at Fangoria Magazine, a member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists and a top critic at Rotten Tomatoes.