Barbara Steele
출생 : 1937-12-29, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
약력
Barbara Steele (born December 29, 1937, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England) is an English film actress. She is best known for starring in Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. Her breakthrough role came in Italian director Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), now hailed as a classic.
Steele starred in a string of horror films, including The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962); The Ghost, directed by Riccardo Freda and Roger Corman's 1961 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Pit and the Pendulum. She guested on various British television shows including the spy drama Danger Man starring Patrick McGoohan. In 2010, she was a guest star in the Dark Shadows audio drama The Night Whispers.
In 2010, actor-writer Mark Gatiss interviewed Steele about her role in Black Sunday (1960) for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.
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Self - Actress (archive footage)
Ferruccio Castronuovo was the only authorized eye, between 1976 and 1986, to film the brilliant Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (1920-1993) in his personal and creative intimacy, to capture the gears of his great circus, his fantastic lies and his crazy inventions.
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Revealing the fascinating impact of the ground-breaking Gothic drama Dark Shadows with a compelling blend of rare footage and behind-the-scenes stories exploring the diverse talents of creator-producer-director Dan Curtis.
The Apparition of the Mill (segment 'The Mill At Calder's End')
As midnight falls, all manner of terror invades the Earth. demons, cannibals, killers, ghosts and monsters swarm the world in these tales of the supernatural, the fantastic, and the just plain horrific. Featuring nine stories of horror.
Belladonna
모두가 떠난 황량한 마을에서 본즈는 미혼모 엄마인 빌리와 어린 동생 프랭키와 함께 살아간다. 본즈는 빈 집에 가서 쇳조각을 뜯어내 고물상에 갖다 팔아 생활비를 마련하지만, 동네를 장악한 불리의 추격과 협박에 그마저도 쉽지 않다. 집 대출금이 연체 되자 은행에 찾아간 빌리는 은행 직원 데이브에게서 일자리를 제안받고 기괴한 클럽에서 일하게 된다. 한편, 불리에게 쫓기던 본즈는 물속으로 통하는 길을 발견하게 되는데...
Narrator
The Shutterbug Man tells the tale of a very twisted man, whose only passion in life is taking pictures. This passion takes him to terrible and wicked places.
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"Parasite Memories" is a brand new retrospective piece on the film produced by High Rising Productions with lively contribution from effects artist Joe Blasco, actresses Lynn Lowry and Barbara Steele, actor Allan Kolman, and Canadian critic Kier La-Janisse.
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The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel by H. G. Wells—, which was brought to the big screen in 1996. How director Richard Stanley spent four years developing the project just to find an abrupt end to his work while leading actor Marlon Brando pulled the strings in the shadows. Now for the first time, the living key players recount what really happened and why it all went so spectacularly wrong.
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Filmed exclusively for Arrow Video in 2013, this documentary looks at the making of The Pit and the Pendulum and features producer and director Roger Corman, star Barbara Steele, Vincent Price's daughter Victoria Price and more.
The Apparition of the Mill
In the remote village of Calder's End stands an old windmill, a repository of dark secrets. Nicholas Grimshaw has returned to this haunted place, his childhood home, intent on breaking a generations old family curse. Grimshaw's journey takes him deep below the decaying mill,into mysterious, forgotten catacombs, where upon he confronts the very source of the evil that has corrupted his family. The Mill at Calder's End is a gothic tale inspired by the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and M.R. James and is told with the use of 36 inch tall bunraku rod puppets operated by puppeteers dressed in black.
Self
Documentary on the making and impact of "House of Wax".
Ann
A reclusive and butterfly-obsessed elderly lady suffering from bipolar disorder develops a disturbing relationship with a mysterious but seemingly innocent youngster.
Self
A documentary revolving around an extended interview with Barbara Steele, in which she recounts the many facets of her career.
Vanessa Peabody
Vanessa Peabody (segment "Her Morbid Desires")
A quirky anthology, consisting of four separate short films connected by host segments. The first one, BOOGIE WITH THE UNDEAD, has an all girl rock band booked to play a gig in a town overrun by flesh-eating zombies. In the second one, THE DEVIL'S DUE AT MIDNIGHT, a coven of beautiful witches conjure up Brad Dourif as The Devil, and endures the inept attacks of witch killer Ken Foree. In the first long segment, HER MORBID DESIRES, an actress gets the lead role in a vampire movie, only to discover that starlets are being murdered on the set. The other long segment, CRY OF THE MUMMY, has the reincarnated mummy, formerly the last Pharaoh of the 4th Dynasty, looking to sue the movie studios because he can't get work as a mummy. His new lawyer offers to represent him as an agent, but the mummy will only work in film if he can direct.
Agent Oakley
Martial arts star Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action/suspense story. A child is recruited to take part in a secret government experiment which results in him being able to see into the future. Years later, the child is an adult and is working for the government; his latest assignment is to find the other people who were part of the same project. Before long, he discovers the other test subjects usually pop up murdered shortly before he can talk to them, and he realizes he may well be the next target.
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A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach movies, H.G. Lewis' gore-fests, William Castle's schlocky theatrical gimmicks, to 1970s blaxploitation, pre-"Deep Throat" sex tease films, Russ Meyer's bosom-heavy masterpieces, etc, etc. Over 25 interviews of the greatest purveyors of weird films of all kind from 1940 to 1975. Illustrated with dozens of films clips, trailers, extra footage, etc. This documentary as a shorter companion piece focusing on exploitation king David F. Friedman.
Mrs. Wagner
In the 16th century, young men put themselves in great danger to look for mysterious crystals in a tunnel in the Styrian Erzberg. Some of them never returned from searching for this symbol of perfect love. In the 20th century, the student Barbara tries to pursue this legend of her home town.
Self
A short documentary on the history of the horror film narrated by Christopher Lee.
Self
The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses have of what is expected of them by the film industry.
Victoria Engels
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The policemen on the case begin uncovering the Engels family secret as the remaining students become endangered
Cathy
Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an emergency physician comes by to treat her. When her daughter starts seeing someone she doesn't much like, and she begins having a brief affair (her first since the divorce) with the ER doctor, she begins to reconsider her policy.
Dr. Mengers
피서지로 유명한 호반에서 무전 여행을 하던 남녀가 행방 불명되는 사건이 발생한다. 조사에 나선 사립탐정 매기(Maggie McKeown: 헤더 멘지스 분)는 정부의 연구기관에서 비밀리에 식인어 피라나를 사육하고 있었음을 밝혀낸다. 찬물에 강하고 놀라운 번식력을 가진 변이종 피라나를 베트남 전쟁에 투입해 살인무기로 이용하려 했던 것이다. 그러나 식인어 피라나가 강으로 방류되면서 낚시와 보트놀이를 즐기던 가족들이 습격당하고 평화롭던 도시가 갑자기 공포 분위기로 휩싸이게 되는데...
Josephine
장난꾸러기 꼬마소녀 바이올렛은 1차 세계대전이 한창인 1917년 미국 남부 뉴올리언즈의 공창 지대에서 창부인 엄마 헤티와 함께 살고 있다. 그러나 그녀가 12살 되는 생일 날, 첫 경험을 치룰 처녀로서 경매에 붙여지고, 거액을 제시한 한 중년 남자가 그녀를 자신의 침대로 데려간다. 몇 년 후 전쟁이 끝나고 공창 제도도 폐지되면서, 바이올렛은 아직 미성년이었지만 전부터 자신을 좋아하던 순수한 청년 벨록과 결혼한다. 그러나 엄마 헤티가 그들을 찾아와 바이올렛을 키우겠다며 데려가고 마는데...
Idat
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Betts
아파트에 살고 있는 한 과학자가 한 소녀를 잔인하게 살해하고 그녀의 내장을 헤집어 놓고 그 역시 자살한다. 수사가 진행되는 동안 한 의사는 과학자가 유전공학 기술로 기생충을 이식하는 실험 중이었다는 사실을 알아낸다. 곧 다른 사람들에게 기생충이 옮은 표시가 하나씩 나타나기 시작한다.
Supt. McQueen
A young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a repressed and oppressive female warden. When the prison's sadistic doctor begins conducting illegal "therapeutic" experiments on the inmates, the ladies plot their revenge.
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
Danielle
This lysergically madcap Italian flick largely eschews any traditional plot. The most noticeable thread involves ventriloquist Ricky becoming a TV star, dressed up as a superhero with an “impish robot” dummy.
Carla
While on honeymoon with her husband in Spain, a woman wakes up one morning to find he has disappeared. After reporting it to the police, a man shows up claiming to be her husband. But he's not the man she married and no one will believe her.
Lavinia Morley
When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming - and his niece more demonstrably so - Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything.
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Short film for the french TV program "Dim Dam Dom". A love letter to Barbara Steele and Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs.
Bozena
At an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate—until the torture goes too far. Adapted from Robert Musil's acclaimed novel, Young Törless launched the New German Cinema movement and garnered the 1966 Cannes Film Festival International Critics' Prize for first-time director Volker Schlöndorff.
Harriet Montebruno / Belinda
At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carries an ancient malediction.
Veronica
A young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the water. Her body is then possessed by the spirit of an 18th-century witch who was killed by local villagers, and is bent on avenging herself on them.
Teodora
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
Episodic comedy about the corrupting influence of money.
Lady Clerk
Short film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson.
Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
A sadistic count tortures and murders his unfaithful wife and her lover, then removes their hearts from their bodies. Years later, the count remarries and the new wife experiences nightmares and hauntings. The ghosts of the slain return to exact their bloody revenge, until their hearts are destroyed.
Cleo Hauff
An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the castle at that very moment. Soon occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways.
Helen Rochefort / Mary
In a 15th century village, a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her beautiful older daughter knows the real reason for the execution lies in the lord's sexual desire for her mother.
Contessa Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
Valérie Gasparelli
A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear aircraft carrier.
Guilia
In 17th-century Rome, a young man in a choir of castrati falls for the beautiful wife of a powerful aristocrat.
Barbara Sims
Gerhard is a young technical in Düsseldorf who works in a factory of security devices for banks. In agreement with Nicola, Mario and Hans, they prepare and carry out a robbery which, however, will have consequences for all of them.
Barbara (segment "l'hobby") / Brugnoli's Wife (segment "la cambiale")
An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
Elisabeth Blackwood
한 저널리스트가 유령의 집에서 하룻밤을 보낼 수 있는지 내기를 하면서 벌어지는 이야기. 이탈리아 컬트 감독 안토니오 마르게리티의 대표작. (2012년 제13회 전주국제영화제)
Silvia
Margaret Hichcock
A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.
Leila
Gianni and Marietta get along wonderfully as lovers, but not as a couple. Despite being married, they agree to become lovers again.
Gloria Morin
영화감독 로이드는 어느 날 자신의 몸이 공중에서 추락하는 꿈을 꾼다. 현실의 일상에서 지쳐 있던 그는 요양을 핑계로 온천에 간다. 그러나 그는 온천에서도 생활과 일에서 벗어날 수가 없다. 그리고 온천에서 여생을 보내는 노인들 속에 자신이 있다는 환상을 보기 시작한다. 그는 아내와도 애인과도 모두 지쳐 있는 상태이다. 그런 그에게 유일한 구원은 마음 속에 나타나는 창부같은 성녀 클라우디아였다. 로이드는 소년 시절의 추억에 잠기는 동안 오래도록 잊고 있던 것을 생각해 낸다.
Floriana
After his village is burned down, Captain Furio sets out for revenge.
Cynthia Hichcock
The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral games. One day he accidentally administers an overdose and kills her. Several years later he remarries, with the intention of using the blood of his new bride to bring his first wife's rotting corpse back to life.
Elizabeth Barnard Medina
16세기 스페인, 동생 엘리자베스가 죽었다는 통보를 받은 영국인 신사 프랜시스 바나드는 동생의 남편 니콜라스를 방문한다. 동생의 죽음에 의문을 품고 니콜라스를 추궁하던 바나드는 니콜라스가 죽은 엘리자베스의 환영에 시달리고 있다는 걸 알게 되는데..
Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda
19세기 중반, 토마스 크루바얀 박사는 조수 안드레이 고로벡과 함께 몰다비아를 여행하던 중 17세기에 처형된 마녀이자 흡혈귀인 아사 바이다의 무덤을 지나게 된다. 이때 우연히 떨어진 크루바얀의 피로 인해 아사는 깨어나게 되고, 함께 처형됐던 하인 이고르 야부티치를 살려낸다. 그들의 부활로 인해 바이다 성은 다시 공포의 장이 된다. 이윽고 아사는 인간으로 부활하기 위해 그녀와 쌍둥이처럼 닮은 후손인 카티아 바이다를 노리고, 카티아를 사랑하게 된 안드레이는 아사의 저주로부터 카티아를 구하려고 한다.
Juliet Frost
A domestic comedy about a couple who take in boarders to pay the rent on their large house.
Mary
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.
Student
연방국가에서 온 이주자들에게 인종적인 적대감을 공공연히 표출하던 1950년대 런던. 임신한 한 음대학생이 살해되는 일이 발생한다. 경시청의 형사 2명(니겔 패트릭, 마이클 크레이그 분)이 수사에 나서게 되면서, 피살자 주변에 있던 모든 사람들이 용의선상에 떠오른다. 실상 그녀는 백인으로 행세하던 흑인 여성이었고, 여자가 흑인임이 밝혀지면 자신의 인생마저 망가질 것을 두려워하는 백인 애인과 그녀의 부모, 그리고 그녀가 백인 사회에 받아들여졌을 때 버림받은 소년들까지 광범위한 수사가 진행되는 동안 형사들은 자신이 갖고 있던 사회적 편견들과 하나하나 만나게 되는데...
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In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Fiona
A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.
