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      Mill of the Stone Women

      1960 1h 34m Horror List
      Reviews 57% Audience Score 250+ Ratings An art student (Pierre Brice) in 1912 Holland finds posed statues are petrified corpses drained by a madman (Wolfgang Preiss). Read More Read Less

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      Anthony Arrigo Dread Central Arrow has given Italy’s first trip into the world of color a fully-loaded edition worthy of its place in horror film history. Rated: 4.3/5 May 16, 2022 Full Review Rob Aldam Backseat Mafia An eerie and unnerving gothic fantasy which toys with the inevitability of life and death. Nov 25, 2021 Full Review Mark R. Leeper rec.arts.movies.reviews Rated: high 0 out of -4..+4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Read all reviews

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      michael b Excellent Old Fashioned Horror Movie.😀😀😀😀 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/14/24 Full Review brad p Italy's First Color Horror Film Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Director Giorgio Ferroni's career ended when he went deaf in 1972. Before that, he worked in many of the genres of the Italian exploitation film world, from peplum like Hercules vs. Moloch to westerns like Fort Yuma Gold and Eurospy like Secret Agent Super Dragon. His last major directing efforts would be The Night of the Devils, which is an adaption of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's The Family of the Vourdalak (which also inspired Viy and Black Sabbath) and a 1975 comedy Who Breaks…Pays. The first Italian film shot in color, this movie takes us to an island in Holland that houses a sculpture of several women created by art professor and sculptor Professor Gregorious Wahl. Hans van Arnhim has traveled here to learn what the statues mean, but he's also found love in the form of Wahl's sickly daughter Elfie. Now go with me on the plot. It turns out that the sculptor has hired a doctor to keep his daughter alive. Together, they run a secret lab where Elfie receives blood-transfusions from kidnapped female victims who posthumously become part of the stone art of the professor. So — House of Wax + Eyes Without a Face = Mill of the Stone Women. Still, 60's Eurohorror is, as they say, where it's at. There's so much to love in this movie and I love the doomed heroine and the just as damned hero who cannot help but to remain in love with her. This also has the interesting formula of gothic horror + science fiction + the magic of Technicolor. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member One thing this film has going for it is an extremely creepy mise-en-scene-it's set primarily in a windmill in Holland where a famous professor has set up a macabre museum featuring a carousel of wax figures (depicting women who died gruesomely throughout history; e.g., Joan of Arc, Anne Boleyn). When a student comes to stay to help the professor document his work, he discovers the professor's ill daughter who seems to be locked away hidden from everyone else. After an illicit tryst, the student spurns the daughter in favour of another girl but soon finds the daughter dead and the guilt overwhelms him. Then things become more confusing - the daughter is suddenly back alive and we learn that her father and a deregistered doctor are using blood transfusions to bring her back to life (time and again). Echoing "Eyes Without A Face" (also 1960, but a better film), young women are kidnapped to donate their blood (and lives) and, yes, they end up in the museum. Perhaps it was the dubbing (a mainstay of Italian films), the wooden acting, or the dream-like quality of the plot and images, but I kept nodding off. A step removed from the production values of Hammer Horror but with a different kind of weirdness that feels more decadent and depraved. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Atmospheric French-Italian horror/thriller combining classic elements, such as a mad professor, his beautiful daughter, a lonely windmill, and a creepy semi-automated display of wax figures. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Hauntingly Beautiful Gothic piece--ReWaximator!! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis An art student (Pierre Brice) in 1912 Holland finds posed statues are petrified corpses drained by a madman (Wolfgang Preiss).
      Director
      Giorgio Ferroni
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      French (France)
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Dec 13, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 34m
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