Great selection of links, Retzev!

Did you see this music video from the early 1980s with Steele photos and footage to the song "The Eyes of Barbara Steele" as performed by a New Wave Munich band Boom-Boom Chuck and the Psychedelic Berrys?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ZHLYOVPVM&feature=related

There are more fabulous Barbara Steele clips that come up if you explore further, as well!

G.

Here's a trailer for The Crimson Cult (aka Curse of the Crimson Altar--search "Crimson Altar" for more clips) with a couple of glimpses of Barbara Steele in her green Witch costume--garish and fab!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6PI13Tus8U

Other links for great 1970s movies such as The Blood on Satan's Claw and Dracula A. D. 1972 pop up on this page, too, for those in a mood for some Halloween diversion.

G.

I'm really surprised not to see Barnabas and Josette listed as a couple in this survey.  If you look back at the early to middle years of organized DS fandom (I'm thinking 1970s-1980s-into the early 1990s here), B & J meant Barn/Josette, PERIOD.  People made and sold a number of Barn/Josette accessories--I think one enterprising fan had bought up a bunch of little pink heart shaped pillows and embroidered them with lacy frills and the linked names of the happy couple.

It's nice to see that Langley and Phoebe were remembered.  I never got to see any of that, but I know that was a wonderful time for both Louis Edmonds and Ruth Warrick, judging from interviews I have read with both.

As I write this post, I'm recalling one of my favorite scenes in all DS, when Mrs. Cassandra Collins is paying a friendly neighborhood call to dear cousin Barnabas (*wry grin*) and finally blurts out to Barnabas:  "Oh, why couldn't you ever love me?"  He tells her flatly:  "I loved Josette!"  Her riposte:  "I hate you!"  And his reply:  "You've proven that!"

cheers, G.

What a wonderful short portrait.  I've read many interviews with her over the years, so am well aware that this one is just glancing over the surface of the very complex entity that is Barbara Steele.

Interestingly, Grayson Hall made almost the same comment about "duality" in a fan interview in the early 1980s when a fan was asking her about Julia's complicity in the murder of Dave Woodard.

I wish that Barbara's 1966 film An Angel for Satan would get a proper DVD release.  Sinister Cinema or one of those firms has a version that is Italian-only.  A small firm that specializations in exploitation titles is working on a restored release of Nightmare Castle which will be great if they can pull it off.  The complete print was found in a vault in Italy--very appropriate for a Barbara Steele film.

Another one that is little known and I think has some surprisngly effective and even touching moments is The Crimson Cult, filmed in 1968 but delayed in release for some years. 

Best wishes,

G.

Julia darling, you are truly incorrigible!  One of the many reasons why I adore you.

cheers, G.

And in today's capture, perhaps the sound track should be Julia struggling to get out the words to that song "T-T-T-Touch me" from Rocky Horror Show!

Creature of the night, indeed!

G.

Fans,

an occasional Friday pastime of mine has been scouting around Amazon to see what latest sales are available on the DS DVD sets through Amazon vendors. 

Amazon is being undersold sometimes to the tune of substantial amounts of money for NEW (not used) sets of these discs.  Today I found set 22 being sold NEW for around $17 plus postage.  This is around half of what it would cost during a Deep Discount annual sale.

For those who are afficionados of horror films generally, they have loads on sale on a Halloween sale page that's on their main "Movies and TV" page on their site.

cheers, G.

Hi MSC, and anyone else who's still reading this topic,

I did watch the episode in question last night (and then wound up watching most of the following episode as well--but if I decide to comment on the latter, I'll do it in the appropriate thread).  I think the highlight for me was the scene between Mrs Johnson and Harry.  (Ironically, a few evenings before, I had been test-driving the Collectors Series second set which had just arrived, and happened to view the scene where Carolyn first suggests to Liz that Mrs J would just love to work at Collinwood; I'd forgotten what a delicious scene it is when Liz arches her eyebrows, quirks her lips and says "Sarah JOHNSON?" as if she were the last person on earth she'd want to have underfoot at the Great House!)

I recently watched a Something Weird twofer (She-Man and The Sins of Rachel) and something about Craig Slocum's acting really evokes the atmosphere of sleaze and moral decay (maybe decay isn't the right word--think a stained sofa with sagging upholstery and tattered fabric) a lot of those late Sixties miniscule-budget productions radiate in spades.  But in this scene with the brilliant Clarice Blackburn, Slocum's shifty-eyed equivocation actually works really well.  I thought again there was a slashy subtext when Sarah was quizzing Harry about why Joe would be living at Collinwood since he has "his own place to live."

My roommate was watching when Joe was wandering the woods semi-barechested and speculated that he was probably out there looking for action...

cheers!  G.