24 Greatest Euro Cult Screen Sirens
20. Macha Méril
Macha Méril is a Princess. She really is. Macha is descended from Ukrainian nobility on her mother's side and the Russian House of Gagarin on her father's side. She has starred in over 125 films and she has worked for the great directors - Jean Luc Goddard, Luis Buñuel and Rainer Werner Fassbinder - to name but a few. However, Méril's work on high brow art films is subsumed by her foray into the world of Euro Cult movies. These are the roles she has gained fame from. Macha played an ill fated blind psychic medium in what I consider to be Dario Argento's best film - Deep Red. And she will forever linger in infamy as the unnamed perverted degenerate woman in Aldo Lado's Night Train Murders - a film that landed on the DPP 72 Video Nasty list. Fancy that! A Princess in a Video Nasty!19. Marisa Mell

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Clare Simpson
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My first film watched was Carrie aged 2 on my dad's knee. Educated at The University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. Fan of Arthouse, Exploitation, Horror, Euro Trash, Giallo, New French Extremism. Weaned at the bosom of a Russ Meyer starlet. The bleaker, artier or sleazier the better!
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