I’m logging my Monster Movie Month © viewing with ultra-mini
reviews at the end of every week this October. I write it. You read it. No one
needs to get hurt.
Mill of the Stone
Women (1960- dir. Giorgio Ferroni) ***½
A young doofus goes to work for an artist famous for
creating a gruesome carousel of infamous women condemned to death. The doofus
has a fling with the artist’s daughter despite the warning that she’ll drop
dead if she becomes slightly upset. Needless to say, this relationship does not
end well. Despite a plot so similar to a couple of other movies that if I gave
you their titles you’d have this one’s plot figured out lickety-split and heaps
of exposition subtle as Nikolai Volkoff’s scrotum in your soup, Mill of the Stone Women is pretty
exceptional. The creepy-sculpture-crammed windmill is an ace horror movie
setting, and though the characters all start off pretty blah, they all go
absolutely bonkers by the fiery, freaky climax. Poe would have been envious.
The Boogeyman (1980-
dir. Ulli Lommel) **½
