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thinkingimages · 5 months

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Barbara Steele in Black Sunday (1960) Dir. Mario Bava

#Barbara Steele #Black Sunday #Mario Bava #1960 #horror film #gothic cinema #Viy #gothic #horror #novella #Asa Vajda

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hyzenthlayroseart · 1 month

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So last night I was browsing through the streaming service Shudder and I saw that they had the 1960 Italian horror Black Sunday which I've been wanting to see for a long time, mainly because of how much I've always loved it's poster lol ( ). Well I loved it and just had to draw Barbara Steele as Asa. If you've never heard of the film and are wondering why she has holes on her face, it's because in the opening scene she's sentenced to death for evil sorcery and has a mask with metal spikes on the inside hammered onto her face. Yeah...I was shocked something so brutal happened in a 60s horror film lol (then again this is the same year France gave us Eyes Without a Face which featured a disturbing face transplant scene so....shrug).

Also I looked up what other horror films came out in 1960 and I saw this, Eyes Without a Face, Psycho and Peeping Tom. Damn, something must've been in the water that year to make so many great horror films come out in the same year.

#fan art #black sunday #asa vajda #barbara steele #mario bava #giallo

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thedepartmentofdiscoveries · 7 months

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#hounds #great danes #dogs #canines #barbara steele #black sunday #1960s #mario brava #60s horror #gothic horror #La maschera del demonio #the mask of the demon #vampire #witch #vampiric witch #asa vajda/katia vajda

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fibula-rasa · 2 years

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Cosplay the Classics: Barbara Steele as Asa/Katia Vajda in Black Sunday (1960)

Sometimes October flies by and you’re left with very little time to put together an appropriately ghoulish look for the big night: Halloween! But, with a little construction paper, colored pencils, safety pins, and a black sheet… you too can closet cosplay Barbara Steele in her dual role of Asa and Katia Vajda in the Italian horror classic Black Sunday / La maschera del demonio (1960).

I personally adore this movie, and its source material, so hopefully, when I have some more time to spare, I’d love to give it a full write up. Maybe a Gogol on film series???

Anyways, Happy Halloween!

#Halloween #halloween costumes #black sunday #la maschera del demonio #barbara steele #1960 #1960s #1960s film #mario bava #Italian Film #Italian movies #nikolai gogol #classic film #classic movies #Classic Horror #horror #Horror Movies #horror film

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collinsportmaine · 2 years

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Barbara Steele (a Hammer regular) played Asa Vajda in “Black Sunday”. It involved a complicated plot with vampires and reincarnation.

#vampires #Barbara Steele #black Sunday #reincarnation

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brody75 · 4 years

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Black Sunday (1960)

#black sunday #horroredit #mario bava #barbara steele #katia vajda #Princess Asa Vajda #ivo garrani #la maschera del demonio #the mask of satan #italian horror #60s horror #filmedit #horror #60s

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reelwitches · 7 years

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#wednesday #morticia #elvira #vampira #maleficent #asa vajda #nancy downs #vanessa ives #lily munster

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sesiondemadrugada · 5 years

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La maschera del demonio (Mario Bava, 1960).

#la maschera del demonio #la maschera del demonio (1960)#mario bava #barbara steele #katia vajda #princess asa vajda #andrea checchi #mario serandrei #giorgio giovannini #nedo azzini #tina grani #eugenio bava

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goryhorroor · 3 years

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gothic horror women

• the cabinet of dr. caligari/jane (1920)

• nosferatu/ellen hutter (1922)

• dracula/mina seward (1931)

• the black cat/joan alison (1934)

• rebecca/ mrs. de winter (1940)

• phantom of the opera/christine daae (1943)

• gaslight/paula alquist (1944)

• the uninvited/ pamela fitzgerald (1944)

• dragonwyck/miranda wells (1946)

• the brides of dracula/marianne danielle (1960)

• the fall of the house of usher/madeline usher (1960)

• black sunday/asa vajda (1960)

• the innocents/miss giddens (1961)

• the pit and the pendulum/elizabeth (1961)

• the whip and the body/nevenka (1963)

• the tomb of ligeia/rowena trevanion (1964)

• bram stoker’s dracula/mina harker (1992)

• sleepy hollow/katrina van tassel (1999)

• crimson peak/edith cushing (2015)

• the lodgers/rachel (2017)

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triste-guillotine · 3 years

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Mario Bava’s masterpiece “La maschera del Demonio” (1960) aka “Black Sunday”, based on a tale by Nikolaï Gogol, featuring Barbara Steele as Katia/Asa Vajda.

#La maschera del Demonio #Mario Bava #Barbara Steele #Le masque du démon #Black Sunday #Italian Horror #Nikolaï Gogol #Gothic Horror

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thealmightyemprex · 3 years

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Top 10 Villains of Horrortober

Best Villains I have seen in the horror movies I watched in october

10.Officer Matt Cordell from Maniac Cop (!988)

His motivations make no sense ,but he is a solid slasher villain

9.Dr Mirakle from Murders in the Rue Morgue (!932)

Bela Lugosi shines here as a mad scientist trying to mix man and ape together

8.The Horla from Diary of a Madman (1963)

A pure evil invisible entity voiced by John Ruskin that posesses Vincent Price.Very underrated in my oppinion

7.Asa Vajda from Black Sunday (!960)

A undead vampiric witch out for revenge on the descendents who wronged her , Barbara Steele just gives such a creepy performance

6.Kurt Menlif from the Whip and the Body (1963)

Christopher Lee as the family jerk ,who is mudered and his spirit is out for revenge

5.Belial from Basket Case (!982)

I had to include this murderous living lump

4.Ivan Igor from Mystery of the Was Museum (1933)

Igor is a burnt mad artist.Lionel Atwill delivers a truly unhinged performance

3.Sadako from Ringu (!988)

Murderous psychic ghost.That final scene scared the shit out of me ,had to include her

2.Dracula from Dracula Prince of Darkness (!966)

One of my favorite horror villains any way ,this films feral mute take on the Count is truly scary

1.Coffin Joe from At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1963)

I dont know if I have seen a horror villain who is THIS much of an asshole

@ariel-seagull-wings @amalthea9 @metropolitan-mutant-of-ark @marquisedemasque @filmcityworld1 @lord-antihero @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @princesssarisa

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ladychaos · 4 years

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Creating Asa Vajda and her two dogs for the #BumpkinBazaar was such a joy that I decided to build her old castle. I used a wonderful forest lot in Windenburg, and for a first try at building a castle, I’m quite happy. As always, I tried to tell a story through the build, and I hope you enjoy it. There’s no cc, but do put bb.moveobjects on before downloading it. You can also download Asa’s household in my gallery.

You can download it on The Sims 4 gallery.

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ghoulsinheels · 3 years

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The Art of the Hex: The Witch in the Movies.

The concept of witch arises in the Babylonian culture to refer to the woman who practices a “black magic” contrary to institutionalized religious precepts, a crime that in the Code of Hammurabi was punished by throwing the guilty into the river (Hormigos Vaquero: 2007,477 ). The image of women flying, with powers that transform people into animals, causing them physical damage or tremendous pain have haunted the witches.

In the cinema, the figure of the witch is an inexhaustible topic, it has several facets: the sensual and attractive sorceress who seduces, with her beauty, embodies the young Circe who in the Odyssey dupes Odysseus and transforms her companions into pigs .

The witch is powerful in that she combines charm and knowledge, establishes contact with the devil through orgies and rituals, and sometimes becomes his priestess, as can be seen in films such as Witchcraft Through Ages (Haxan) or The Undead. The other facet is to present her with a horrible appearance, rejected and feared for the excessive use of her knowledge and tendency for destruction.

In Argento's filmography we find Suspiria, which is part of a trilogy that the director himself put together from his literary influence, especially Thomas de Quincey's story about three mothers, Mater Lachrymarum (Tears), Mater Suspiriorum (Sighs) and Mater Tenebrarum (Darkness).

Like the Fates, in Greek mythology there are three sisters: Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. The first grants the threads of each person's life; the second, intertwine the threads and decide how long the thread of each person's life will be; finally, the third is in charge of cutting the thread and, thereby, ending the person's existence.

Suspiria is a mysterious breath of life, all the tectonic power embodied in a female being that is nourished by the young energy of the students of an academy that is the heart of Suspiria the destructive mother. Its hidden existence as a dangerous shadow veils the dream of the young women. Suspiria is an evil witch, a demonic entity.

In Black Sunday Barbara Steele plays a sorceress named Asa Vajda who seems to harbor not a drop of humanity inside her when she returns 200 years after her death to wreak havoc on her execrable brother's family. It also presents itself as the enemy of good, of the order established by patriarchal institutions that undermine by all means the development of dissatisfied women and the propagation of their ideas.

Always fought through violent actions and methods, let us remember the scene where the mask is nailed at the point of mallets. Currently, productions such as The Lords of Salem or Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi demonstrate once again the renewed validity of the witch on the screen.

#witchcraft #blacksunday #suspiria #barbara steele #haxan #witches

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vintage1981 · 4 years

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Happy Birthday Barbara Steele

Barbara Steele (born 29 December 1937) is a British film actress and producer. Famous for her starring in Italian Gothic horror films of the 1960s, her breakthrough performance was in Black Sunday (1960), where she played the dual role of Asa and Princess Katia Vajda.

Additionally, Steele had supporting parts in Federico Fellini‘s 8½ (1963), and appeared on television in the 1991 miniseries Dark Shadows. Steele has appeared in several films in the 2010s, including a lead role in The Butterfly Room (2012) and supporting role in Ryan Gosling’s Lost River (2014).

Steele was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. She studied art at the Chelsea Art School and in Paris at the Sorbonne.

Steele guest starred on various British television shows including the spy drama, Danger Man (aka Secret Agent) starring Patrick McGoohan. She made her American television debut in 1960 as Dolores in the “Daughter of Illusion” episode of the ABC series, Adventures in Paradise, starring Gardner McKay. In that same year she was replaced by Barbara Eden in the Elvis Presley film Flaming Star after a disagreement with director Don Siegel. In 1961, she appeared as Phyllis in the “Beta Delta Gamma” episode of CBS's Alfred Hitchcock Presents. She also had an important role in Federico Fellini’s celebrated 8½ in 1963, and in 1966 appeared in the second-season episode of NBC's I Spy, “Bridge of Spies”.

During the 1960s, Steele starred in a string of Italian horror films, including Black Sunday (1960), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), The Ghost (1963), The Long Hair of Death (1964), Castle of Blood (1964), Terror-Creatures from the Grave and Nightmare Castle (both 1965). She also starred in Roger Corman's 1961 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Pit and the Pendulum and the British film Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968).

Steele returned to the horror genre in the later 1970s, appearing in three horror films: David Cronenberg's Shivers (a.k.a. They Came From Within) (1975), Piranha (1978), and Silent Scream (1979).

Steele served as associate producer of the 1983 TV miniseries, The Winds of War, and was a producer for its 1988 sequel, War and Remembrance, for which she shared the 1989 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special with executive producer Dan Curtis.

Steele was cast as Julia Hoffman in the 1991 remake of the 1960s ABC television series Dark Shadows. In 2010, she was a guest star in the Dark Shadows audio drama, The Night Whispers.

In 2010, actor-writer Mark Gatiss interviewed Steele about her role in Black Sunday for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror. In 2012, Gatiss again interviewed Steele about her role in Shivers for his follow-up documentary, Horror Europa. In 2014, she appeared in Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, the drama-fantasy thriller film Lost River, in which she portrayed the character Belladonna in a supporting role.

#Black Sunday #8½ #Dark Shadows #Federico Fellini #Danger Man #The Horrible Dr. Hichcock #The Ghost #The Long Hair of Death #Castle of Blood #Nightmare Castle #The Pit and the Pendulum #Curse of the Crimson Altar #Piranha #Silent Scream #The Winds of War #War and Remembrance #Dan Curtis #Barbara Steele

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collinsportmaine · 7 years

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Vampire Digital Trading Cards!

#Vampire Digital Trading Cards #Barbara Steele #Julia Hoffman #black Sunday #Asa vajda

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giallofever2 · 5 years

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Happy Birthday/ Buon Compleanno

to the Dark Queen Barbara Steele

Barbara Steele (born 29 December 1937) is an English film actress and producer. She is best known for starring in Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. Her breakthrough performance was the dual role of Princess Asa Vajda and Katia Vajda in Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960)

Additionally, Steele had supporting parts in Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963), and appeared on television in the 1991 miniseries Dark Shadows. Steele has appeared in several films in the 2010s, including a lead role in The Butterfly Room (2012) and supporting role in Ryan Gosling's Lost River (2014)

.... Steele starred in a string of horror films, including Black Sunday (1960), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), The Ghost (1963) directed by Riccardo Freda, The Long Hair of Death (1964) and Roger Corman's 1961 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Pit and the Pendulum, among others.

She also starred in Castle of Blood (1964), Terror-Creatures from the Grave and Nightmare Castle (both 1965), and Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968).

Steele returned to the horror genre in the later 1970s, appearing in three horror films, Silent Scream, Piranha, and David Cronenberg's Shivers.

#barbara steele #mario bava #black sunday #scream queens #giallo fever #giallofever #italian cult #italian giallo #cinema cult #cult #gialli #italian sexy comedy #international cult #giallo #federico fellini #international actress #italian actress #horror actress #giallo actress

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