Search - Mill of the Stone Women [Uncut Euro Version] on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Not For Children Movie Release: 1960 DVD Release: 03/16/2004 Format: DVD - Color Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 36 mins Studio: Mondo Macabro Members Wishing: 8 Genres: Horror, Costume Horror, Gothic Film

In this offbeat costume horror film set in 1912, Hans (Pierre Brice), a young art student, is sent to a remote Dutch village to collect information about the local windmill. The windmill is decorated with moving sculptures of women in various gruesome scenes of torture and death. Professor Wahl (Herbert Boehme), the curator of the windmill, also teaches art and sculpture. Among the professor's students, Hans meets Liselotte (Dany Carrel), his childhood friend who still loves him. He also gets acquainted with Wahl's beautiful daughter, Elfi (Scilla Gabel), who suffers from a rare blood disease and is not allowed to leave her house. Then Hans discovers the shocking secret behind the professor's attempts to keep his daughter alive. ~ Yuri German, All Movie Guide

Pierre Brice - Hans
Dany Carrel - Liselotte
Herbert A.E. Boehme - Professor Wahl
Scilla Gabel - Elfi
Marco Guglielmi - Raab

A much-coveted and little-seen entry into the annals of Euro-horror, director Giorgio Ferroni's gothic chiller gets the deluxe treatment from genre specialists Mondo Macabre. Presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, the image is commendable for a film as old and obscure as the title in question. In addition to appearing mostly free of debris or digital artifacting, it boasts well-balanced colors and fairly even skin tones. Aside from the occasional evidence of edge-enhancement, the transfer is overall near-flawless -- a remarkable treat for such a rare gem. Audio is presented in English Dolby Digital Stereo, and it rings through clearly with little distortion or hiss. An optional "U.K. Dub" track and a French-language track with optional English subtitles are also available. With a film such as Mill of the Stone Women, studios could likely have pleased fans just by making bare-bones editions available -- and this is where Mondo Macabre truly begins to excel. In addition to a commendable presentation of the feature itself, the disc also offers such impressive extras as a great theatrical trailer (presented in 1.33:1), alternate scenes that include a missing French scene, an alternate U.S. cut of the hallucination sequence, and the original French title sequence. Cast and crew biographies provide remarkably detailed information on stars Pierre Brice, Wolfgang Preiss, Scilla Gabel, and Dany Carrel and offer a lovingly detailed history of the films' origins. In addition to containing images from the film's international marketing campaign, the image gallery also contains such amusing nuggets as pre-written press stories that would serve to hype Mill of the Stone Women in localized newspapers. A handful off eye-catching "VHS Re-Issues" video covers round out the disc nicely, making Mondo Macabre's release of Mill of the Stone Women a must-have for Euro-horror fans. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide