Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

@horrornonna.com

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your horror nonna

dr/writer/producer/post-goth/author of 10 books on cult + horror film

in the Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS + Shudder's forthcoming 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR based on my book

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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 · 4h

PSSST! Wanna read an actual bona fide trans goddess write about her personal history with Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" music video? You are in luck!

This has got to be one of my top five favourite pieces of film writing this year.

All hail Cerise Howard 🖤

Senses of Cinema @sensesofcinema.bsky.social · 8h

In the Issue 115 Special Dossier with My Formative Queers, Cerise Howard offers "A Personal Meditation Upon a Particular Video Clip – and Others of Its Ilk – With a Lot to Answer For."

Callner and Response: A Personal Meditation Upon a Particular Video Clip – and Others of Its Ilk – With a Lot to Answer For – Senses of Cinema

Author’s note: in order to transmit something of the experiential, pseudo-audience-participatory dimensions of this piece’s two public airings to date, I’ve retained in the text that follows frequent…

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 5h

Holy SHIT man

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 5h

Andrew on stage with Anne's corpse is the gothest thing I've ever heard tbh

(Deleted my last reply because I am an illiterate buffoon)

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 5h

FUCK YES here are my nominations for the mother and Saffy:

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 5h

Current obsession: photos of Siouxsie Sioux and Pam Hogg over the years getting absolutely munted together

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 5h

Stu! Congratulations!!!!

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radical lisa loebotomy @nfornihilism.net · 5h

what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it

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Senses of Cinema @sensesofcinema.bsky.social · 8h

In the Issue 115 Special Dossier with My Formative Queers, Cerise Howard offers "A Personal Meditation Upon a Particular Video Clip – and Others of Its Ilk – With a Lot to Answer For."

Callner and Response: A Personal Meditation Upon a Particular Video Clip – and Others of Its Ilk – With a Lot to Answer For – Senses of Cinema

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 9h

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 9h

🎵 Tittybong leave you HENRY Tittybong leave you boy 🎵

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Caden Mark Gardner @cadenmgardner.bsky.social · 10h

Hi @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I published this last year but with our TCM appearances last month we are once again asking to buy our book!

bookshop.org/p/books/corp...

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 10h

Books - I have written and co-edited many! Number eleven announced soon so STAY TUNED

horrornonna.com/books/

12 books written or co-edited by Alex Heller-Nicholas

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 10h

This is the heist movie I was born for

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 10h

Its honestly terrifying

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 10h

I am genuinely intrigued by the population of three people here

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 10h

Going to Tittybong, you guys need anything?

Tittybong - Wikipedia

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 11h

Are things easier for rich people? Yes! Does that justify using tech trained by stealing work, including from others from low income backgrounds? No war but class war my good bitch

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 11h

Little else boils my piss more than people playing the class card to justify using AI.

I grew up dirt fucking poor and my parents instilled in me from the day I was born that if you love something or someone, you 👏 have 👏 to 👏 put 👏 in 👏 the 👏 work 👏 because 👏 nothing 👏 worthwhile 👏 comes 👏 easy 👏

UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 1d

All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!

BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 12h

(That's a pretty great answer 💜)

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 13h

What the FUCK are we doing Danielle

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 13h

I can count on one hand the number of film critics in Australia I know who do it as a full time job, but can only speculate how many of them actually make a viable income from it with no other revenue streams.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 13h

My gentle advice for aspiring film critics in Australia: honey, this isn't a real job here. I've been doing this for 20 years: last year I earned exactly minimum wage for mostly foreign clients, so 1/5th of that goes to the tax office. You needing another job to support this doesn't reflect on you 💜

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blayne ⛧ @ewhag.com · 22h

hey, if you're looking for something creepy for the weird grrrl in your life, my book of poetry is a solid pick 🖤

and you can support your local indie bookstore when you buy through bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/bite...

Book cover for BITE BACK: POEMS by Blayne Waterloo with a holly bush in the background

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 1d

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 1d

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 1d

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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 1d

Chain Reactions, now on VOD in the US, is an excellent doc on Texas Chainsaw Massacre, does something different by focusing on how one film can produce similar, and still very different experiences. Featuring the wonderful @horrornonna.com

Free on my Patreon.

www.patreon.com/posts/141973...

Chain Reactions (Alexandre O. Philippe, 2024) | Alex Pagliuca

Get more from Alex Pagliuca on Patreon

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 2d

That's media archeology, BABY! x

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