Posts tagged "Barbara Steele"

Oct 13, 20253 min read

The Rampant Sexuality of David Cronenberg’s ‘Shivers’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Taxpayer Funded Sex Slugs. After wrapping up September with Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (listen), debating the merits of The Strangers: Chapter 1 (listen) and celebrating 30 years of To Die For (listen), it’s time for a David Cronenberg milestone: 50 years since his genre feature film debut, Shivers (1975). In the film, Starliner Tower is an exclusive, isolated […] The post The Rampant Sexuality of David Cronenberg’s ‘Shivers’ [Horror Queers Podcast] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

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Slaves of Satan: Mario Bava, Barbara Steele, and ‘Black Sunday’ [Gods and Monsters]

In Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Pretorius, played by the inimitable Ernest Thesiger, raises his glass and proposes a toast to Colin Clive’s Henry Frankenstein—“to a new world of Gods and Monsters.” I invite you to join me in exploring this world, focusing on horror films from the dawn of the Universal Monster movies in 1931 to the […]