Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
Hans von Arnam travels to a Flemish village to study a strange carousel located in an old windmill that displays famous murderesses and other notorious women from history. Professor Gregorius Wahl, owner of the windmill, warns Hans to stay away from his mysterious daughter Elfi, in order to keep Hans from discovering the horrible secret shared by the Professor and Elfi's Doctor.
- Giorgio Ferroni
- Remigio Del Grosso
- Giorgio Ferroni
- Ugo Liberatore
- Pieter van Weigen
- Giorgio Stegani
Rating: 6.035/10 by 71 users
Alternative Title:
Mill of the Stone Women - US
Le Moulin des supplices - FR
Doktor Skräck och de förstenade kvinnorna - SE
Drops of Blood - GB
El molino de las mujeres de piedra - ES
O Moinho das Mulheres de Pedra - BR
De Molen van de Versteende Vrouwen - NL
Die Muhle der Versteinerten Frauen - DE
Country:
France
Italy
Language:
Italiano
Runtime: 01 hour 30 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: windmill, carousel , wax museum, descent into madness, atmospheric, blood transfusion, sculptor, mummified bodies, human taxidermy
Pretty weird Italian horror film that reminded me a bit of Frankenstein. Not great and I kind of lost interest halfway through but it does pick up in the finale and all in all found it to be entertaining enough. 3.5/5
**_What’s going on inside the spooky old windmill?_** In 1890’s Holland, a writer (Pierre Brice) visits a mill where a reclusive sculptor lives (Herbert Böhme). One of the attractions is the artist’s odd carrousel that displays ghastly statues of women. Then there’s his striking daughter (Scilla Gabel) whom he won’t allow out of the mill for some reason. What’s going on? Wolfgang Preiss is on hand as the sculptor’s in-house doctor. An Italian/French production, “Mill of the Stone Women” (1960) is colorful and atmospheric Hammer-esque horror that combines the basic set-up of the Dracula story whereupon a young man visits a strange, Victorian abode hosted by an eccentric old man mixed with bits of the Frankenstein story and “House of Wax.” Redhead Liana Orfei (Annelore) is a highlight on the female front, but so is Dany Carrel (Liselotte) and the aforenoted Scilla Gabel. “Mill” is quaint entertainment in a macabre, Grand Guignol way. The drug-addled portion in the middle gets tedious, but the last act makes up for it; and you can’t beat the unique setting of the massive windmill in the flat countryside of the Netherlands. It was the first Italian horror production shot in color. The flick runs 1 hour, 35 minutes, and was filmed in Holland and Belgium with studio scenes done in Rome. GRADE: B
