Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is a film critic, editor, and academic from Melbourne, Australia. She has written five books on cult, horror, and exploitation film including Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (McFarland, 2011), Found Footage Horror Films: Fear and the Appearance of Reality (McFarland 2014), Suspiria (Auteur, 2016), Ms. 45 (Wallflower/Columbia University Press, 2017), and The Hitcher (Arrow, 2018). She is currently working on two upcoming books (one on the history of masks in horror cinema and another on art and intertextuality in giallo cinema), and finalising her volume 1000 Women in Horror. Alexandra has published over 100 interviews, essays, articles and reviews, over twenty book chapters, and has co-edited a number of books, including most recently Wonderland (Thames & Hudson, 2018), the catalogue accompanying the exhibition about Alice in film at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.