Mill of the Stone Women (1960)

★ 6.0 1h 35m IMDb

Horror Sci-Fi

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.

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Pierre Brice as Hans von Arnam Died 2015 · Brest, Finistère, France

Scilla Gabel as Elfie Wahl Age 88 · Rimini, Italy She was born Scilla Gabellini, one of five siblings, in Rimini on the Adriatic coast. Scilla initially studied law at Oxford University, graduating with a doctorate. Her interest in pursuing a legal c...

Dany Carrel as Liselotte Kornheim Age 93 · Tourane, Annam, French Indochina [now Da Nang, Vietnam] Yvonne Suzanne Chazelles de Chaxel, better known as Dany Carrel, (born 20 September 1932 or 20 September 1935) is a French actress. She was born in Vietnam - then French Indochina - to French father A...

Herbert A. E. Böhme as Prof. Gregorius Wahl Died 1984

Wolfgang Preiss as Doctor Loren Bolem Died 2002 · Nuremberg, Germany From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 at Nuremberg - 27 November 2002 at Baden-Baden) was a German theatre, film and television actor. The son of a teacher, in the...

Marco Guglielmi as Ralf Died 2005 · Sanremo, Liguria, Italy

Director Giorgio Ferroni

Cast Pierre Brice, Scilla Gabel, Dany Carrel, Herbert A. E. Böhme, Wolfgang Preiss, Marco Guglielmi, Olga Solbelli, Liana Orfei, Alberto Archetti, Harriet Medin

JPV852 7/10 Dec 04, 2021

Pretty weird Italian horror film that reminded me a bit of Frankenstein. Not great and I kind of lost interest halfway through but it does pick up in the finale and all in all found it to be entertaining enough. 3.5/5

Wuchak 7/10 Sep 04, 2023

**_What’s going on inside the spooky old windmill?_**

In 1890’s Holland, a writer (Pierre Brice) visits a mill where a reclusive sculptor lives (Herbert Böhme). One of the attractions is the artist’s odd carrousel that displays ghastly statues of women. Then there’s his striking daughter (Scilla Gabel) whom he won’t allow out of the mill for some reason. What’s going on? Wolfgang Preiss is on hand as the sculptor’s in-house doctor.

An Italian/French production, “Mill of the Stone Women” (1960) is colorful and atmospheric Hammer-esque horror that combines the basic set-up of the Dracula story whereupon a young man visits a strange, Victorian abode hosted by an eccentric old man mixed with bits of the Frankenstein story and “House of Wax.”

Redhead Liana Orfei (Annelore) is a highlight on the female front, but so is Dany Carrel (Liselotte) and the aforenoted Scilla Gabel.

“Mill” is quaint entertainment in a macabre, Grand Guignol way. The drug-addled portion in the middle gets tedious, but the last act makes up for it; and you can’t beat the unique setting of the massive windmill in the flat countryside of the Netherlands. It was the first Italian horror production shot in color.

The flick runs 1 hour, 35 minutes, and was filmed in Holland and Belgium with studio scenes done in Rome.

GRADE: B

Dr_Nostromo 6/10 Oct 18, 2025

65/100

A man doing research on a Professor's macabre carousel of historical figures, stumbles into a terrible secret concerning the Prof's daughter. This early horror film is definitely a product of its time with completely rote acting and dialog and our protagonist providing lots of padding through his confusion and hallucinatory wanderings. However, there's some very interesting stuff here as it became more intriguing and bizarre morphing into a morbid cross between "Re-Animator" and "A Bucket of Blood". Far more entertaining that I expected it would be. -- DrNostromo.com