1960 · gothic · mad-scientist · horror
Mill of the Stone Women
Directed by Giorgio Ferroni1h 35m1960
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.
Our read: Mill of the Stone Women (1960) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive gothic · mad-scientist · horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured gothic / mad-scientist, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- cold
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