Barbara Peeters

Barbara Peeters

History

American director and screenwriter of television and film. She is best known for her collaborations with producer-director Roger Corman on films such as Humanoids from the Deep, as well as directing episodes of television shows such as Remington Steele.

Profile

Barbara Peeters

Movies

Humanoids from the Deep
Director
After a new cannery introduces scientifically augmented salmon to a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, a species of mysterious, mutated sea creatures begin killing the men and raping the women.
Starhops
Writer
Three carhops try to help save a failing drive-in restaurant.
Starhops
Director
Three carhops try to help save a failing drive-in restaurant.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Location Manager
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Moving Violation
Second Unit Director
A young drifter and small-town waitress witness a corrupt sheriff murder his own deputy. Framed for the murder and pursued by the sheriff, they run for their life to try and stay alive.
Eat My Dust
Second Unit Director
Hoover Nielbold is a car-crazy teenager who, in order to impress the hottest girl in school, takes her for a ride in a souped-up race car owned by local racer Big Bubba Jones. Hoover's father Harry, who's also the local sheriff is furious at the situation and orders his bumbling deputies to go after him. With the Sheriff's office overflowing with concerned parents and citizens and his deputies failing to catch him. He enlists the help of Jones and fellow racers to capture him. It culminates in a thrilling car chase finale through the rural countryside.
Summer School Teachers
Writer
A trio of naive, but eager young Midwestern women go to California to teach summer school classes at Regency High School: Perky and willful Conklin T. starts up and coaches an all-female football team, stuffy chemistry teacher Sally Hanson manages to loosen up after she falls hard for a surly juvenile delinquent student, and pert and liberated photography instructor Denise Carter becomes involved with both a two-faced male chauvinist jerk and a more decent and understanding guy.
Summer School Teachers
Director
A trio of naive, but eager young Midwestern women go to California to teach summer school classes at Regency High School: Perky and willful Conklin T. starts up and coaches an all-female football team, stuffy chemistry teacher Sally Hanson manages to loosen up after she falls hard for a surly juvenile delinquent student, and pert and liberated photography instructor Denise Carter becomes involved with both a two-faced male chauvinist jerk and a more decent and understanding guy.
The Young Nurses
Art Direction
Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital
Night Call Nurses
Production Manager
The sweet and perky Barbara, the sunny Janis, and the responsible Sandra are a trio of young and attractive nurses who work in the psych ward at a hospital. The threesome really have their hands full dealing with nutty patients, creepy stalkers, and black revolutionaries
Bury Me an Angel
Screenplay
Biker film told from the woman's point of view. The heroine sets out on the road to avenge her brother's murder, toting a shotgun and meaning business.
Bury Me an Angel
Director
Biker film told from the woman's point of view. The heroine sets out on the road to avenge her brother's murder, toting a shotgun and meaning business.
The Dark Side of Tomorrow
Writer
While their husbands are away on work trips, two bored housewives get together to commiserate. One thing leads to another, and they wind up in bed. For one of the women the incident was just a pleasant diversion, but for the other it's turned into a fixation, and when she sees her "lover" going after one of the male neighborhood hunks, things take a turn for the worse.
The Dark Side of Tomorrow
Director
While their husbands are away on work trips, two bored housewives get together to commiserate. One thing leads to another, and they wind up in bed. For one of the women the incident was just a pleasant diversion, but for the other it's turned into a fixation, and when she sees her "lover" going after one of the male neighborhood hunks, things take a turn for the worse.
Angels Die Hard
Script Supervisor
Gang of bikers try to save people in a mining disaster.
Caged Desires
Writer
Sixteen-year-old Maggie is jailed for performing an illegal (and fatal) abortion on a girlfriend. While inside, she is the subject of hostile advances from the other inmates, but eventually she finds love with a woman named Angel.
Caged Desires
Sixteen-year-old Maggie is jailed for performing an illegal (and fatal) abortion on a girlfriend. While inside, she is the subject of hostile advances from the other inmates, but eventually she finds love with a woman named Angel.
The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago
Costume Designer
During Prohibition, two gangsters go to war with each other. (Plus, sex!)
The Gun Runner
Dispatcher
Government agents hire a mercenary to infiltrate a crime ring that's selling guns to a right-wing militia in Texas.