UNBELIEVABLE! A Beautiful Girl Becomes a Petrified Monster!

Before Black Sabbath, before I Vampiri, director Giorgio Ferroni (The Lion of Thebes, Blood for a Silver Dollar) introduced audiences to period horror Italian-style with his chilling 1960 shocker Mill of the Stone Women - a classic tale of terror redolent with the atmosphere of vintage Hammer Horror.

Young art student Hans von Arnam (Pierre Brice, Night of the Damned) arrives by barge at an old mill to write a monograph about its celebrated sculptures of women in the throes of death and torture, maintained and curated by the mill's owner, the hermetic Professor Wahl (Herbert Böhme, Secret of the Red Orchid). But when Hans encounters the professor's beautiful and mysterious daughter Elfi (Scilla Gabel, Modesty Blaise), his own fate becomes inexorably bound up with hers, and with the shocking secret that lies at the heart of the so-called Mill of the Stone Women.

The first Italian horror film to be shot in color, Mill of the Stone Women prefigured a raft of other spaghetti nightmares, including the work of maestros Mario Bava and Dario Argento. Arrow Video is proud to present this superb restoration of one of the foundational titles of Italian horror.

Media

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Bonus Materials

• 2K restoration from the original negative by Arrow Films
• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation of the original 96-minute Italian and English export versions
• Restored original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks
• English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
• Audio commentary by Tim Lucas, author of Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark
• Mill of the Stone Women & The Gothic Body, a visual essay on the trope of the wax/statue woman in Gothic horror by author and critic Kat Ellinger
• Turned to Stone, a featurette containing archival interviews with actress Liana Orfei and film historian Fabio Melelli
• A Little Chat with Dr. Mabuse, an archival interview with actor Wolfgang Preiss
• Rare opening titles from the UK release, re-titled “Drops of Blood”
• German opening titles
• US and German theatrical trailers
• Image galleries
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Adam Rabalais

 

Cast & Crew

Actors:

•       Dany Carrel
•       Herbert A.E. Böhme
•       Liana Orfei
•       Pierre Brice
•       Scilla Gabel
•       Wolfgang Preiss

Director: Giorgio Ferroni

Additional Details

Label: Arrow Video

Genre: Horror

Language: Italian

Run Time: 96 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 12/03/24

UPC: 760137169024