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I tend not to love Italian horror, since a great deal of it is frequently incomprehensible to me, at least in terms of plot. That’s different for the older Italian horror, though, and a movie like Mill of the Stone Women (Il mulino delle donne di pietra) is a case of an Italian filmmaker doing something in the more Gothic style. Gothic horror is always a lot of fun. It’s overblown and weird and dramatic to a fault. It also has great costuming and sets and is gorgeous to look at. That’s certainly the case here.
I thought, for a very long time, that the name of this movie was Mill of the Stone Woman, meaning a singular gorgon-like creature. It’s not, though. The reference is to a collection of moving statues held in an old windmill. Hans van Arnhim (Pierre Brice), heads to a remote Dutch island to do research on a story about the mill in question. Once an actual grain mill, it has been turned into an art installation by a sculptor named Gregorious Wahl (Herbert A.E. Bohme). The machinery of the mill now acts as a carousel, displaying the sculptures.
