Mill of the Stone Women (1960)

Original title

Il mulino delle donne di pietra

Directed by

Giorgio Ferroni

Genre

fantasy film, horror film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 83 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A journalist visits a sculptor's windmill in 19th-century Holland. He falls for the artist's hidden daughter while local women keep disappearing.

gothicmelancholicatmosphericunnervingromanticslow-burnvisually lushmysterious

What happens

Mill of the Stone Women (Italian: Il mulino delle donne di pietra) is a 1960 Italian Gothic horror film directed by Giorgio Ferroni, starring Pierre Brice and Scilla Gabel. It follows a journalist writing a story on a sculptor in 19th-century Holland who falls in love with the artist's sequestered daughter; meanwhile, a series of missing person cases seem to encircle the windmill where the artist lives and works. The film is notable as the first Italian horror film to be shot in color. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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