Weekend Poster Feast 3. It's easy to lose oneself in the gaze of Barbara Steele. This brittle beauty found a home in the gothic opera of Italian horror films after floundering for a couple of years in the British and American film industry. Where Anglo-Saxon minds faltered in succesfully framing her unorthodox countenance, it took an Italian like Mario Bava to see in her saucer eyes and the cruel cut of her face an expression of centuries of betrayal, treachery, and perdition. One can perhaps see her as Lucrezia Borgia (the greatest role she never played), or perhaps Elizabeth Bathory. In any case, Steele was extraordinary in the dual role in La Machera del Demonio (Black Sunday), and she would never be as great again. Click on the image on the left for a much larger picture. (540K)
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