 8 1/2 1963  N/R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo, Madeleine LeBeau, Claudia Cardinale, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, Mario Pisu, Neil Robinson, Mino Doro, Caterina Boratto, Guido Alberti, Eddra Gale, Mario Conocchia, Bruno Agostini
Director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) struggles with a psychological block in his creative abilities that occurs when he is trying to make a movie and cannot come up with ideas for the film. To relieve his stress, Guido checks into a spa where he recalls events of his life. Also filling his mind are seductive relationships with his wife Luisa (Anouk Aimee), his mistress Carla (Sandra Milo), and actress Claudia (Claudia Cardinale) who might provide the solution for his problems. This film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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Caged Heat 1974  R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama / Action
aka: Renegade Girls
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Erica Gavin, Don Heitzer, Mike Shack, Gary Goetzman, Cheryl Smith, John Aprea, Gina Martine, Juanita Brown, Roberta Collins, Barbara Steele, Mickey Fox, Ella Reed, Warren Miller, Crystin Sinclaire, Irene Stokes
This is Oscar-winning director ("The Silence of the Lambs") Jonathan Demme's first feature film and concerns a women's prison and the treatment of a wrongly convicted young girl by the tough inmates. After many wrongful acts, the prisoners get together and plan an escape.
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Castle of Blood 1964  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: Castle of Terror
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Georges Riviere, Barbara Steele, Henry Kruger, Margarete Robsahm, Silvia Sorrente, Silvano Tranquilli, Umberto Raho, Phil Karson, John Peters, Ben Steffen
Tourist Alan Foster (Georges Riviere) stops at an inn and meets Lord Blackwood and Edgar Allan Poe. The two bet Alan that he cannot spend one night in a haunted mansion where several deaths have occurred. Alan takes the bet. The castle is indeed haunted by those who died there, and they relive their deaths to Alan. Will he get away? I doubt it. Eerie and effective. Remade by the director in 1970 as "Web of the Spider."
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 The Ghost 1963 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
Director: Riccardo Freda
Cast: Barbara Steele, Peter Baldwin, Leonard Elliott, Harriet Medin, Umberto Raho, Reginald Price Anderson, Carlo Kechler, Elio Jotta, Carol Bennet, Raoul H. Newman
Margaret (Barbara Steele), with the help of her lover (Peter Baldwin)–who was also her husband's physician–murders her sadistic husband (Elio Jotta). But the husband returns as a ghost to drive Margaret mad. Did he really die? And what about the housekeeper? Sequel to "Horrible Dr. Hichcock."
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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock 1962 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
Director: Riccardo Freda
Cast: Robert Flemyng, Barbara Steele, Maria Teresa Vianello, Harriet Medin, Silvano Tranquilli, Neil Robinson, Howard Nelson Rubien, Spencer Williams, Evar Simpson, Al Christianson
Necropheliac Dr. Hichcock enjoys playing sexual "funeral games" with his drugged wife. But, a mistaken overdose kills her. Years later he remarries and brings his new wife to his old house–plotting to restore his rotted first wife with the blood from wife number two. There is a sequel: "The Ghost."
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Nightmare Castle 1965  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror / Thriller
aka: Night of the Doomed
The Faceless Monster
Director: Mario Caiano
Cast: Barbara Steele, Paul Muller, Helga Line, Laurence Clift, Giuseppe Addobbati, Rik Battaglia
Mad scientist Dr. Arrowsmith (Paul Muller) uses his wife (Barbara Steele) and her lover (Rik Battaglia) in his experiments. He electrocutes both of them and preserves their hearts while using their blood to make his servant young and beautiful. Alas, things do not go as planned when his wife's fortune does not go to him but, rather, goes to her mentally unstable sister (also played by Barbara Steele). Watch out Doc, you may have trouble dealing with her.
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Piranha 1978 R, 92 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Horror / Comedy
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Dick Miller, Barbara Steele, Barry Brown, Paul Bartel, Richard Deacon, Belinda Balaski, Melody Thomas Scott, Bruce Gordon, Shannon Collins, Shawn Nelson, Janie Squire
This spoof of "Jaws" is the subject for Joe Dante's directorial debut. The story involves the adventures of insurance investigator Maggie McKeown (Heather Menzies) who is sent to find missing teenagers in the mountains. Maggie finds Paul Grogan (Bradford Dillman) and hires him as her guide. Along their trek, they discover Dr. Robert Hoak (Kevin McCarthy) at an abandoned military facility where he is raising flesh-eating piranhas. Maggie and Paul accidentally release the piranhas, and they are swimming downstream where a children's camp and resort are located. Now, Maggie and Paul race to save the humans from the deadly piranhas. There is a sequel.
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 The Pit and the Pendulum 1961  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Anthony Carbone, Patrick Westwood, Charles Victor, Lynette Bernay, Larry Turner, Mary Menzies
Francis Bernard (John Kerr) arrives at his brother-in-law Nicholas Medina's (Vincent Price) castle to investigate the death of his sister Elizabeth (Barbara Steele). Elizabeth has actually faked her death to drive Nicholas insane. The ploy works, and now Nicholas straps Francis to a table deep inside his dark castle, in the dank torture chambers, and the steel pendulum descends on him.
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The She-Beast 1966 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Revenge of the Blood Beast
Director: Michael Reeves
Cast: Barbara Steele, Ian Ogilvy, John Karlsen, Mel Welles, Jay Riley, Richard Watson, Edward B. Randolph, Lucretia Love, Peter Grippe, Tony Antonelli, Kevin Welles, Woody Welles
Honeymooners Philip and Veronica (Ian Ogilvy and Barbara Steele) drive off the road in Transylvania and plunge into a lake where a witch drowned over 200 years ago. Philip is able to reach shore, but Veronica is missing, replaced by the witch who goes on a murder spree. The witch's targets are the descendents of those who caused her death. Witch-hunter Count von Helsing (John Karlsen) teams with Philip to catch the witch and get Veronica back.
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Silent Scream 1980  R, 87 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Denny Harris
Cast: Rebecca Balding, Cameron Mitchell, Avery Schreiber, Barbara Steele, Steve Doubet, Yvonne De Carlo, Brad Rearden, John Widelock, Jack Stryker, Thelma Pelish, Tina Tyler, Juli Andelman, Annabella Price, Joe Pronto, Jason Zahler
Unable to find a room in the dormitory, Scotty Parker (Rebecca Balding) joins other college students (Steve Doubet, John Widelock, and Juli Andelman) in Mrs. Engels' (Yvonne De Carlo) seaside mansion where she lives with her son, Mason (Brad Rearden). Scotty discovers Mrs. Engels' daughter, Victoria (Barbara Steele), locked in the cellar, and then one of the students is murdered. Police Lt. Sandy McGiver (Cameron Mitchell) and Sgt. Manny Ruggin (Avery Schreiber) investigate the murder and mayhem that ensues. Based on a true story. 1 User Review
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| | mysticman 01/10/2007 | | I thought the movie was decent, some good scares. The sex scene was excellent, however. Combining a death with sex was very erotic and Scotty's orgasm was one of the best I've ever seen, intense and beautiful! |
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Terror Creatures from the Grave 1965  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror / Mystery
aka: Five Graves for a Medium
Director: Massimo Pupillo
Cast: Barbara Steele, Riccardo Garrone, Walter Brandi, Mirella Maravidi, Alfredo Rizzo, Luciano Pigozzi, Tilde Till, Ennio Balbo, Steve Robinson, Rene Wolf
Cleo (Barbara Steele) made a big mistake when she killed her husband. Before his murder, he called five victims of the plague back from the grave, and now they target poor Cleo and her friends.
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Young Torless 1966 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Thriller
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Cast: Mathieu Carriere, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Barbara Steele, Fred Dietz, Jean Launay, Lotte Ledl, Hanna Axmann-Rezzori, Herbert Asmodi, Fritz Gehlen
In Austria at the beginning of the 20th century, two classmates–Bineberg and Reiting (Bernd Tischer and Fred Dietz)–catch fellow student Anselm von Basini (Marian Seidowsky) stealing. Instead of reporting Basini to school authorities, Bineberg and Reiting turn him into their victim by humiliating and abusing him both physicially and psychologically. Another student, Thomas Torless (Mathieu Carriere), witnesses the cruelty and, when he has had enough, reports his classmates. But in the end, it is Torless, not the perpetrators, who is told to leave the school.
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| 1. 8 1/2 (1963)
2. Caged Heat (1974)
aka: Renegade Girls
3. Castle of Blood (1964)
aka: Castle of Terror
4. The Crimson Cult (1968)
5. The Ghost (1963)
6. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)
7. Nightmare Castle (1965)
aka: Night of the Doomed
aka: The Faceless Monster
8. Piranha (1978)
9. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
10. Pretty Baby (1978)
11. The She-Beast (1966)
aka: Revenge of the Blood Beast
12. Silent Scream (1980)
13. Terror Creatures from the Grave (1965)
aka: Five Graves for a Medium
14. Young Torless (1966)
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