Do you remember actress Barbara Steele?

She meets her gruesome fate locked in the Iron Maiden in The Pit And The Pendulum. A knock-out ending.

ew

I loved her in the Dark Shadows miniseries in 1990.

Oh, excuse me. 1991.

She revived her acting career playing the pivotal role of Dr. Julia Hoffman in the Dark Shadows revival series in 1991.

She tried to cure Barnabas Collins of his vampire affliction but with bizarre results.

Her first big horror movie, Black Sunday.

She thought that all of her films were trash for the longest time but seems to have come around as of late.

They attempt to kill her in Black Sunday.

She’s one of the hookers in PRETTY BABY, that’s all I know.

Curse Of The Crimson Altar.

Love the headdress!

Dan Curtis was fucking her for a while, long before the Dark Shadows reboot in the 90s.

Scary and sexy.

Pants down for the whipping!

Surprised she is still alive. Very attractive in her day, had a Spanish look to her.

In later years.

What movie is the whipping scene at r15 & r16 from?

Love Babs Steele

She was also in Fellini's 8 1/2. Met her a few years ago at the Chiller Show in Jersey. Very sweet.

Love her

You queens wanna talk about Black Sunday and not one mention of the luscious John Richardson?

She shagged the gorgeous Rik Battaglia in Nightmare Castle

I remember Barbara Steele from David Cronenberg's horror movie "Shivers" (1975).

In this scene, a parasite comes up through the drain, into the bathtub, and kills her.

She was a darkly beautiful Anglo-Irish actress of the 60's.

R19 It's an Italian movie called L' armata Brancaleone (1966) and stars Vittorio Gassman.

R23 John Richardson.

Barbara Steele with the cast members of the Dark Shadows revival series.

I always thought she was stunning. She did a little indie movie a few years ago called The Butterfly Room with a lot of other scream queens like Heather Langenkamp and P.J. Soles. The movie itself is nothing special, but she was great in it. She still looks excellent.

With Horror King Vincent Price in The Pit And The Pendulum.

As Dr. Julia Hoffman, gradually at odds with vampire Barnabas Collins who she is trying to cure.

R10 There are quite a few others who changed their tune once they $ee how much money they can rake in at convention$ and other horror related thing$.

Julia!!!!!!!

She was in that weird movie a couple years ago "Dark River".

I fucking hated Black Sunday. One of the most overrated horror films of all time.

Well congrats on her still being alive.

I only saw Pit and the Pendulum last October.

A more tranquil moment from The Pit And The Pendulum.

Barbara Steele and Vincent Price.

Fun fact: As a kid, Tim Burton idolized her. You can see her in all of his casting and dating/marriage choices:

Winona Ryder Lena Gieseke (wife) Lisa Marie Smith (wife) Eva Green Geena Davis Helena Bonham-Carter (wife) Christina Ricci

She actually wanted to be known that she worked with Fellini, and not the schlocky Bava. She's a fascinating woman, well cultured with a very wicked sense of humor.

I quite love her as The Widow with DL's fave Mads Mikkelsen:

Goddamn formatting:

Winona Ryder

Lena Gieseke (wife)

Lisa Marie Smith (wife)

Eva Green

Geena Davis

Helena Bonham-Carter (wife)

Christina Ricci

R19

I think the whipping scene is from "Young Torless".

I have a friend who knows her well and says she's hysterically funny. Very classy in appearance, but bawdy as hell in personality.

Barbara Steele and her lover chained up by her angry husband in another horror flick, Nightmare Castle.

Surprise!

I actually recall watching Pit and the Pendulum as a small child and when it was over asking my mother what was an adulteress. The way she so quickly told me she didn't know and to never mind made it clear I had somehow sad a bad word and to immediately drop the subject.

She was very seXy. Her onetime husband was working on the screenplay for THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY ? 50 years ago & originally wanted her to play the role that Susannah York eventually did.

Gorgeous when young, but now has a kind of a Jackie Stallone thing going on.

Steele was a striking presence on film but I don't know that she was really much of an actress. Hard to say for sure given the most of the crap she did. The only watchable horror films she did were BLACK SUNDAY and PIT AND THE PENDULUM.

She's cool in 8 1/2, but it's not one of the major roles. She's dubbed in German in YOUNG TORLESS (and the whipping scene posted above is not from that film).

She had a very small, uncredited role in the 1959 British film SAPPHIRE, a mystery that hinges on racial hatred. Steele has a quick scene in a cafe playing one of the title character's friends.

R49 Barbara Steele's acting in the Dark Shadows revival series was excellent - restrained but letter perfect. She was one of the best things about the series and really stood out.

As a young actress she had a guest-starring role on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, co-starring with Joel Crothers (of Dark Shadows) and a young Barbara Harris

I remember her from the 1979 slasher film "Silent Scream". She played a crazy bitch very believably.

The movie also starred Yvonne De Carlo.

Barbara Steele about to participate in a séance.

r54, what is that from?

R55, not R54, but that's from Dark Shadows, 1990-91.

It was a mostly faithful adaptation of the original; the biggest change was a merge of Victoria and Maggie; Maggie was a supporting character who did not resemble Josette DuPres; that was Victoria; so when Victoria went into the past - 1795 - she encountered her lookalike.

I had mixed feelings on Steele. Grayson Hall is a tough act to follow. But she was good. Quite good.

I was in a coffee shop on Wilshire in LA within the last few years and I swear Barbara Steele was sitting there a few tables over. We smiled at each other. I wish I'd said something.

81. Cripes. We're all going to die, aren't we?

r53 and r57, I haven't seen Silent Scream in years. It was a pretty good slasher film. Yvonne DeCarlo played Barbara Steele's mother.

If Barbara Steele is still alive and working how in the hell has Tim Burton not convinced her to act in something for him? The Eva Green connection is STRONG

Forrest J. Ackerman introduced me to Barbara Steele in 1960. (...in his magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland)

I fucking loved the Dark Shadows reboot. And she was very good in it.

R61 Barbara Steele on the set of Dark Shadows. She certainly knows how to pose.

A harp and a cigarette.

Fiery.

A bare chested hunk who appears out of nowhere in Steele's "Castle Of Blood".

Those big eyes.

She does seem like a natural fit for a Tim Burton movie. Would be nice of him to give her a ring and give her a fucking role.

I know that she was offered a cameo with the other DS alums for the Dark Shadows movie, but either it wasn't big enough for her, or she had a conflicting job.