Barbra Steele: THEE Oueen of Horror!

[RCMerchant]

Happy (late) Birthday to Barbra Steele,High Priestess of Horror!All bow and praise the beautiful Sorceress of Sinister Sinema!(Dec.19,1937)
Oh yeah,which is your favorite Barbra Steele film?

[BeyondTheGrave]

I went with Black Sunday. Great stuff. 

[WyreWizard]

I don't know.  Never seen any of them.  But I bet they are all plagued with serious reality flaws as most horror films usually are.

[RCMerchant]

 Well,WW, yer really missing out.BLACK SUNDAY is my personal favorite,though her beauty enhances any movie she's in.Oh,by the way...I do believe your just a prankster,because nobody could be that anal retentive in real life,and still enjoy a fulfilling life.As a cartoonist,I feel having an imagination, an ability to take common day events and put a twist on it,is what makes the world go round!
"Try NEW ,Improved ...
REALITY!
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Add IMAGINATION to your boss chewing you out at work and POW! Suddenly your the incredible Hulk,toosing into an active volcano!
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[WyreWizard]

Believe it or not, there are horror movies which I enjoy.  These horror films don't have the reality flaws that most horror films are plagued with.  They are typical psycho thrillers.  They are usually shown from the viewpoint of a particular character.  This character might have mental problems like paranoid schizophrenia.  All the horror in the film is generated by his or her twisted mind. 

But one horror film I find more plausible but unrealistic to some degree is Cujo.  The monster of that film is a rabid St Bernard dog.  The film doesn't show the dog having superpowers or acting in a way that dogs would never do in his situation.  I think Cujo would be even more scary if he were a pressa-canario dog like the ones that killed Diane Whipple.
What I find most unrealistic about Cujo is the amount of bad luck suffered by the main heroine.  She goes to where the crazy dog is hiding when her car breaks down and won't start.  So she goes inside to call for help when she is confronted by the dog.  She rushes back to her car and waits.  Some time later, she tries starting her car and it starts.  As she backs out of that places, she curses at the dog.  That is when the car suddenly stops.  These are about the only reality problem I see with this film.  I mean, no one would have such a terrible string of bad luck.

[Andrew]

This was an easy choice.  I have been interested in seeing one of her movies, called "Nightmare Castle" (though the alt title that caught my eye was "Lovers from Beyond the Tomb") and just noticed it is available on DVD.

[peter johnson]

Um, aren't you missing some titles here, RC?
Didn't Barbara do a few of the Hammer Dracs, with our Chris?
Or am I confusing her with someone else -- If she DID do a Hammer Drac., then that would be my favorite --
peter johnson/denny reality flaw

[RCMerchant]

Your'e right about a Barbra doing Hammer Dracula flicks ,but that would be Barbra Shelley!She was the sexy vampiress in DRACULA,PRINCE of DARKNESS,and played the lead creature in Hammers the GORGON.A great genre actress in her own right!

[Dennis]

I picked Black Sunday, mainly because it was at the top of the list, I will happily watch any Barbara Steele film. Read something interesting about her at the site Brian's Drive- in Theatre, said that she is the producer of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

[Flangepart]

Gotta go with PIT AND THE P.
The look in her eyes as she realises she's the most screwed woman in history!...um...figuritivly...or maby not, since she wanted to kill poor Vinnie by driveing him mad...

[Yaddo 42]

I picked Black Sunday since it is the one I am the most familiar with, and the one she is the most known for. I haven't seen as many of her films as I'd like. Only recently saw Nightmare Castle, her and Helga Line' in the same film, just wish the film hadn't been so tame.

First saw her in Pirhana as a little kid, not knowing who she was. In my naive youth, I was thrown by someone that beautiful being that cold and sinister. Later I appreciated the dark wit of the scene and her performance, plus it prepared me for dating IRL later on.