Barbara Peters, a pioneering female filmmaker, made a name for herself in the 1970s and early 1980s by creating entertainingly trashy low-budget drive-in exploitation fare. As one of the few women specializing in this genre, Peters often collaborated with Roger Corman's New World Pictures, a renowned B-flick studio.
Peters' feature film debut was as co-writer and co-director of the soft-core lesbian outing "The Dark Side of Tomorrow". She then went on to direct the gritty distaff biker film "Bury Me an Angel", the amusingly silly comedy "Summer School Teachers", and the enjoyably inane "Starhops".
Peters' greatest claim to fame, however, was her work on the wonderfully nasty horror creature feature "Humanoids from the Deep". In addition to her directing work, she also handled second-unit director duties on the car chase films "Moving Violation" and "Eat My Dust", designed costumes for "The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago", and served as art director on "The Young Nurses".
As an actress, Peters appeared in "Gun Runner" and "Caged Desires", which she also wrote the script for. Peters' career eventually transitioned to television, where she directed episodes of popular shows such as "Misfits of Science", "Shadow Chasers", "Falcon Crest", "Remington Steele", "Cagney & Lacey", and "Matt Houston".
