The best Barbara Steele’s horror movies

Barbara Steele

Barbara Steele

29/12/1937 (86 años)
Today we present the best Barbara Steele’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Barbara Steele’s movies.
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Piranha

Piranha
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 03/08/1978
  • Character: Dr. Mengers
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

Shivers

Shivers
6.3/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 10/10/1975
  • Character: Betts
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum
7/10
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive!

The Butterfly Room

The Butterfly Room
5.4/10
A reclusive and butterfly-obsessed elderly lady suffering from bipolar disorder develops a disturbing relationship with a mysterious but seemingly innocent youngster.

Black Sunday

Black Sunday
7.1/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 12/08/1960
  • Character: Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda (as Barbara Steel)
A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant. Only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor stand in her way.

The She Beast

The She Beast
4.6/10
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.

Castle of Blood

Castle of Blood
6.8/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 27/02/1964
  • Character: Elisabeth Blackwood
A writer accepts a wager that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for his blood in a vain attempt to stay alive beyond that one night.

Curse of the Crimson Altar

Curse of the Crimson Altar
5.5/10
  • Genre: HorrorMystery
  • Release: 01/12/1968
  • Character: 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.

The Ghost

The Ghost
6.1/10
  • Genre: HorrorThriller
  • Release: 30/03/1963
  • Character: 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.

Minutes Past Midnight

Minutes Past Midnight
4.9/10
  • Genre: HorrorThriller
  • Release: 18/10/2016
  • Character: 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.

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
6.3/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/01/1962
  • Character: 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.

The Long Hair of Death

The Long Hair of Death
6.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 30/12/1964
  • Character: Helen Karnstein / Mary Karnstein
In a 15th-century feudal 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. After confronting the lord on the matter, she, too, is killed. A much younger daughter is spared and taken in by her mother's killers. Once she is of age, as a horrible, deadly plague sweeps the land, she marries the lord's worthless son. Then, during a brutal thunderstorm, the older daughter mysteriously reappears and begins to avenge her mother's death.

The Boneyard Collection

The Boneyard Collection
3.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 01/01/2008
  • Character: 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.

Silent Scream

Silent Scream
5.8/10
  • Genre: HorrorThriller
  • Release: 23/11/1979
  • Character: 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

Nightmare Castle

Nightmare Castle
5.7/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 20/08/1965
  • Character: Muriel Arrowsmith / Jenny Arrowsmith (as Barbara Steel)
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.

An Angel for Satan

An Angel for Satan
6.5/10
  • Genre: HorrorMystery
  • Release: 04/05/1966
  • Character: 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

Hollywood Rated 'R'

Hollywood Rated 'R'
5.8/10
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.

Terror-Creatures from the Grave

Terror-Creatures from the Grave
5.5/10
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.

Deep Above

Deep Above
6/10
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.

The Mill at Calder's End

The Mill at Calder's End
7.4/10
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.

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