The Best Barbara Steele Movies
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1Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Arturo DominiciBlack Sunday is a 1960 Italian gothic horror film directed by Mario Bava, from a screenplay by Ennio de Concini, Mario Serandrei and Marcello Coscia. The film stars Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Arturo Dominici and Ivo Garrani. It was Bava's directorial debut, although he had completed several previous feature films without credit. Based very loosely on Nikolai Gogol's short story "Viy", the narrative concerns a vampire-witch who is put to an end by her own brother, only to return 200 years later to seek revenge on her descendants.More Black Sunday
2Barbara Steele, Benito Stefanelli, Salvo RandoneCastle of Blood is a 1964 Italian horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti, using the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson. This film is also known as Coffin of Terror, Danse macabre, Dimensions in Death, La Lunga notte del terrore, Terrore, The Castle of Terror, The Long Night of Terror, Tombs of Horror, and Tombs of Terror.
3Barbara Steele, Peter Baldwin, Umberto RahoThe Ghost is a 1963 Italian horror film directed by Riccardo Freda, using the pseudonym "Robert Hampton". The film stars Barbara Steele and Peter Baldwin. Other titles for the film include The Spectre and Lo Spettro del Dr. Hichcock..
4Barbara Steele, Paul Muller, Helga LinéA deranged scientist, Dr. Stephen Arrowsmith (Paul Muller), catches his beautiful wife, Muriel (Barbara Steele), conducting an affair with their gardener, David (Rik Battaglia). The enraged Arrowsmith imprisons the lovers in his laboratory. Chained to the wall, Muriel and David suffer slow, painful deaths as the vicious Arrowsmith inflicts sadistic torture upon them. Believing he has achieved his vengeance, the doctor isn't pleased when his victims return from the grave to seek theirs.More Nightmare Castle- #19 of 26 onThe Best Horror Movies That Take Place in Castles
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- #1 of 49 onThe 45+ Best Horror Movies Of 1965, Ranked
5Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara SteeleElizabeth Barnard Medina (Barbara Steele) has died in the prime of life, and her brother, Francis (John Kerr), wants to know why. Elizabeth's husband, Nicholas (Vincent Price), and her doctor offer differing explanations, but when Francis learns that Nicholas' mother may have been buried alive, he begins to wonder if his sister met the same fate. And when he comes to believe that Elizabeth's spirit wanders about Nicholas' castle, Francis investigates -- and is stunned by what he finds.More The Pit and the Pendulum- #12 of 15 onThe 15 Most Horrifying Moments In Edgar Allan Poe's Stories
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6Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff, Michael GoughCurse of the Crimson Altar is a 1968 British horror film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff, Barbara Steele and Mark Eden. The film was produced by Louis M. Heyward for Tigon British Film Productions. The film was cut and released as The Crimson Cult in the United States. It is based on the short story "The Dreams in the Witch House" by H. P. Lovecraft. This film also featured the final appearance of horror heavyweight Karloff.
7Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng, Silvano TranquilliThe Horrible Dr. Hichcock is a 1962 Italian horror film directed by Riccardo Freda and written by Ernesto Gastaldi. The film stars Barbara Steele and Robert Flemyng.
8Barbara Steele, Mathieu Carrière, Lotte LedlYoung Törless is a 1966 German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, adapted from the autobiographical novel The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil. It deals with the violent, sadistic and homoerotic tendencies of a group of boys at an Austrian military academy at the beginning of the 20th century.
9Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies-Urich, Kevin McCarthyTwo people (Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies) unwittingly free a mad military scientist's (Kevin McCarthy) mutant fish near a summer camp and resort lake.More Piranha- #292 of 397 onThe Best Horror Movies Of All Time
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- #60 of 77 onThe 75+ Best Horror Franchises, Ranked By Scary Movie Fans
10Silent Scream
Yvonne De Carlo, Barbara Steele, Cameron MitchellSilent Scream is a 1980 American horror film directed by Denny Harris, and starring Rebecca Balding, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Steele and Yvonne De Carlo.
11Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk AiméeTroubled Italian filmmaker Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) struggles with creative stasis as he attempts to get a new movie off the ground. Overwhelmed by his work and personal life, the director retreats into his thoughts, which often focus on his loves, both past and present, and frequently wander into fantastical territory. As he tries to sort out his many entanglements, romantic and otherwise, Anselmi finds his production becoming more and more autobiographical.
12Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Peggy MaurerRobert Kraft (Richard Boone) inherits a familial post as the chairman of a small-town cemetery. The centerpiece of the cemetery office is a map of all the plots: White pins signify those claimed, black pins those occupied. When Robert accidentally puts a black pin in the just-purchased plots of a friend (Glenn Vernon) and his new wife, they die in a freak accident. Robert's uncle (Howard Smith) convinces him to make another switch, to see if it's coincidence or something more sinister.
13Barbara Steele, Ian Ogilvy, Mel WellesThe She Beast is a 1966 British-Italian horror film written and directed by Michael Reeves. The film stars Barbara Steele and Ian Ogilvy. There is a restored widescreen version of the film on DVD released in 2009 by Dark Sky Films with an audio commentary by producer Maslansky and stars Ogilvy and Steele.
14Barbara Steele, Luciano Pigozzi, Riccardo GarroneAn attorney travels to a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims. Soon, occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways.
15Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan SarandonHattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet (Brooke Shields). When Violet is brought on as a working girl by her mother's madam and Hattie skips town to get married, Violet quickly loses her innocence and focuses on reuniting with Bellocq. But a life with Bellocq is compromised for Violet after her mother returns to town.
16Barbara Steele, Catherine Spaak, Vittorio GassmanL'armata Brancaleone is an Italian comedy movie released in 1966, written by the famous duo Age & Scarpelli and directed by Mario Monicelli. It features Vittorio Gassman in the main role. It was entered into the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. The term Armata Brancaleone is still used today in Italian to define a group of badly assembled and useless people. Brancaleone is an actual historical name, meaning the paw of lions in heraldry jargon. Brancaleone degli Andalò was a governor of Rome in the Middle Ages.
17Barbara Steele, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Arthur Roberts
18The Maniacs
Barbara Steele, Ciccio Ingrassia, Franco FranchiThe Maniacs is a 1964 comedy film directed by Lucio fulci.
