Pierre Brice, Robert Boehme, Scilla Gabel

Hans arrives in a town near Amsterdam to write a story on the reclusive sculptor, Professor Val, who lives on an island in the old mill house the locals call the Mill of the Stone Women. Hans meets th...( read more  read more... )e professor's beautiful and seductive daughter, and begins feeling passion for her despite his true love for Lisa Lotta. Slowly he becomes aware of the nefarious experiments being conducted by Val and his furtive assistant Dr. Boles, and local women continue to disappear.

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Unrated, 94 min.

Directed by: Giorgio Ferroni

Release Date: August 30, 1960

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DVD Release Date: March 29, 2005

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  • March 16, 2008
    A classic example of gothic Italian horror from the '60s. This was originally released in 1960, which would prove to be a seminal year for Italian horror. Mario Bava's directorial debut, Black Sunday, was also released this year. Mill Of The Stone Women was directed by Giorgio Fe...( read more)rroni, who would go on to direct one other horror film in 1972, Night Of The Devils. He was more well known for his "peplum" (Italian heroic fantasy movies) and westerns. The story concerns a young researcher named Hans who travels to a remote village (in 1890's era Holland) in search of a strange tourist attraction - The Carousel of Stone Women. The "carousel" is a large mechanical device featuring life-sized moving statues of famous and notorious female historical figures; and the whole attraction is housed within a windmill, owned and operated by an eccentric art professor named Gregorius Wahl. Wahl welcomes the young researcher, giving him a tour of the mill and allowing him access to diagrams of the machine, which his father had built. Wahl gives Hans five days to study the machine, after which time he must leave the mill. It turns out Wahl has a daughter, Elfy, who ends up becoming attached to Hans. Hans realizes Elfy may be mentally disturbed or perhaps something else altogether. I won't go into anymore of the plot for those who haven't seen it, but it's a movie worth seeking out, especially for those who like the atmospheric gothic films of Mario Bava, Riccardo Freda, and Antonio Margheriti. It was shot in Technicolor, and it makes good use of the process with some great visual set pieces. I haven't seen Ferroni's other horror film that I mentioned above, Night of the Devils, but apparently it's based on Russian writer Aleksei Tolstoy's novelette Sem'ya Vurdalaka, which also provided the basis for "The Wurdalak" segment of Mario Bava's Black Sabbath.
  • June 19, 2007
    Jesus, this sucked. The star and a half was for the vintage Eurpoean hotties, the half nipple I saw and the half-assed attempt to rip off Mario Bava. And whatever you do, don't forget the fire in the laboratory because that's never been done before!!! While watching the last half...( read more) hour of Mill of the Stone Women I felt like I had my hand over an open flame. The only reason I didn't turn it off was because I've never walked out of or shut off a movie yet. And I'll be goddamned if Mill of the Stone Women is going to be the one to take me down...
  • March 7, 2007
    Creepy horror film from France. Some striking imagery and an interesting plot. Great DVD from Mondo Macabro.
  • October 9, 2007
    A delightful and atmospheric gothic tale from the european vault. A joint dutch, french and german production I suspect from the mixed cast, but everyone speaks perfect french (like I would know).
    If you like Bava, or Jess Franco's 'Awfull dr Orloff, do yourself a favor and watc...( read more)h this.

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