It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
BARBARA STEELE

Mind Skins Thinking
Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
BARBARA STEELE

Country Grow Up Light
If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.
BARBARA STEELE

Confuse Husband Jobs
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE

Granted Individualism Light
The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
BARBARA STEELE

Country Crew Enthusiastic
It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.
BARBARA STEELE

Beautiful Dark Italian
I don’t have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
BARBARA STEELE

Black Objectives Sunday
I didn’t have any agent; I’ve never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE

Agent Appoint Call never
I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
BARBARA STEELE

Kind Publicity Welcome

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