Barbara Steele
2 credits on HibingeTV
British actress known as one of the queens of horror cinema. She starred in Black Sunday (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), and The She Beast (1966). Her striking features made her a favorite of Italian Gothic horror directors. She later worked as a producer and appeared in films by Fellini and others.
Acted In
Horror
A 1965 Italian Gothic horror film directed by Mario Caiano, starring Barbara Steele in a dual role. When scientist Stephen Arrowsmith (Paul Müller) discovers his wife Muriel (Steele) having an affair with the gardener, he tortures and murders them both, removing their hearts and using their blood to rejuvenate his aged servant Solange (Helga Liné). Since Muriel's estate was willed to her mentally unstable stepsister Jenny (also Steele), Stephen marries Jenny and plots to have Solange drive her insane. But Jenny begins having nightmares — the sound of beating hearts and Muriel's voice urging her to murder Stephen — and when a doctor is brought in to treat her, the supernatural vengeance of the murdered lovers begins to unfold. The film features an early score by Ennio Morricone. Also known as The Faceless Monster.
Horror
Nightmare Castle
1965 - as Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith
Horror
A young couple on honeymoon in Transylvania crashes their car into a lake, and the wife's body is possessed by the spirit of a witch executed two centuries earlier. Her husband and a descendant of Van Helsing must find a way to exorcise the witch and restore her before the creature claims more victims. The She Beast is the directorial debut of Michael Reeves, who would go on to make the acclaimed Witchfinder General before his early death. Barbara Steele, the queen of Italian Gothic horror, stars. The film is rough and low on budget, but its foggy Transylvanian atmosphere and Reeves's eye for grim imagery hint at what was to come. The film is in the public domain.
Horror
The She Beast
1966 - as Veronica