Self-portrait of Barbara Steele."I recognize the expression on fans," she says, her voice laced with irony."It's a kind of sexual melting." Barbara Steele would never admit that—from the denizens of mom's basement to intellectuals performing their cleverness—her screen-image reaches across decades to find acolytes. She has every right to doubt their sincerity, of course. Amid bouquets to the Goddess, less judicious fans apply "Scream Queen" like a brand to her flesh. If fans are also judges, then some perspective is in order. Let's remember that Barbara Steele (who screamed rarely in her films) was twenty-two when Mario Bava's Black Sunday first appeared in 1960. Yet there she was, a virtual child, realizing the ungovernable dream of surrealist impresario André Breton—she made him a prophet six years before his death: "Beauty will be Convulsive or will not be at all." That fanboys "melt" in the passive...
- 7/22/2017
- MUBI
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