Mill Of The Stone Women
Dir: Giorgio Ferroni
Mondo Macabro
I’m not sure if you are familiar with old style Gothic movies like Black Sabbath Directed by Mario Bava or even Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe series involving Fall Of The House Of Usher than this would fly just great with you. Pure old school ambience. This one can surely chock up a few scares reverting to the cinema of yesteryear.
A young journalist is sent to this macabre and decrepit Mill were statues of women are parading on a sort of carousel within the walls of this chilling place which the Professor Gregorius Wahl (Wolfgang Preiss-The Devilish Dr. Mabuse or most of the Mabuse films, Cave of the Living Dead) inhabits.
Locals deem the place spooky but still find their morbid curiosity to find the better of them. As Hans tours the place a little more closely since he is staying there, the Professors even more recluse daughter begins to make herself more noticed and soon falls in love with the young stud. He is attached to another women and she soon finds out all about her love and becomes quite obsessed. In a fit of rage with Hans, she dies right on the spot, in his arms. In exhaustive desperation, he lays her back in her bed for the father to find in hopes he does not get caught. After that, strange things literally begin to happen and the young hotty soon finds himself in the middle of some serious spooky going on. He sees her once again after witnessing her demise, now he really can’t believe what is going on. Now the puzzle needs to be put together and what he finds out could very well put him over the edge.
A story not so hot in the originality factor but the mood and atmosphere within these walls are sure to deem itself right up there with the greats. The ghostly figures? The downward spiral Hans gets himself into? Everything that happens within this fright fest plays itself very well. I had a heart for these styled movies since the Euro scene is quite a big part of my life, the way they handle the atmosphere so for this to win me over was not a hard feet at all. A little slow at the beginning but as soon as it gets going, it’s a hard one to stop.
Thanx to Mondo Macabro for bringing up this lost gem to the forefront of DVD marketing and showing us that the oldies are still the goodies. Technicolor beauty with barely any original scratches in the film itself. Wonderfully shot and acting played out quite nicely. They have included a few extra audio tracks, deleted and alternate scenes and some other fine tasty treats. A gem in my book.
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