Mad doctors! Mortiferous maidens! Horrifying hallucinations! A key early Euro-horror and one of the very first in color, this French-Italian production is a medical horrorshow crossed with a folk tale -- its centerpiece is a vintage carillon attraction in an old mill; creepy Scilla Gabel is the minatory seducer who bridges the gap between life and death. Mill of the Stone Women Region A+B Blu-ray Subkultur / Media Target Distribution GmbH 1960 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 90, 95, 96 min. / Die Mühle der versteinerten Frauen / Street Date June 30, 2016 / Amazon.de Eur 24,99 Starring Pierre Brice, Scilla Gabel, Wolfgang Preiss, Robert Boehme, Dany Carrel Cinematography Pier Ludovico Pavoni Production Designer Arrigo Equini Film Editor Antonietta Zita Original Music Carlo Innocenzi Written by Remigio Del Grosso, Giorgio Ferroni, Ugo Liberatore, Giorgio Stegani from Flemish Stories by Peter Van Weigen (possibly apocryphal) Produced by Giampaolo Bigazzi Directed by Giorgio Ferroni
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
2016 is shaping up as a...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
2016 is shaping up as a...
- 7/23/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Welcome to the latest episodes of The ScreamCast! Each episode sees hosts Sean Duregger and Brad Henderson take a look at another slice of home video horror.
Don’t forget to check out TheScreamCast.com for the show notes and for more news and reviews of Scream Factory releases and make sure to follow them on Twitter too!
Episode 96: The Night Brings Bees, Vampires and a Guy Named Charlie!
This week brings a full plate of discussion as we cover Vinegar Syndrome’s release of 1978’s The Bees with our Lead Contributor to thescreamcast.com, Josh Obershaw! Also on the discussion board: Vinegar Syndrome’s February Bundle, Scream Factory’s Jeepers Creepers announcement, Sundown: The Vampires In Retreat (1989) and The Night Brings Charlie (1990).
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Episode 97: Mondo Macabro & A Lizard In A Woman’s Skin
We have a packed show for you today! After...
Don’t forget to check out TheScreamCast.com for the show notes and for more news and reviews of Scream Factory releases and make sure to follow them on Twitter too!
Episode 96: The Night Brings Bees, Vampires and a Guy Named Charlie!
This week brings a full plate of discussion as we cover Vinegar Syndrome’s release of 1978’s The Bees with our Lead Contributor to thescreamcast.com, Josh Obershaw! Also on the discussion board: Vinegar Syndrome’s February Bundle, Scream Factory’s Jeepers Creepers announcement, Sundown: The Vampires In Retreat (1989) and The Night Brings Charlie (1990).
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Episode 97: Mondo Macabro & A Lizard In A Woman’s Skin
We have a packed show for you today! After...
- 4/9/2016
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Cult film specialists Mondo Macabro have announced their next two home video releases and we're very excited, The first film coming out is Medousa (DVD), an adaptation of the story of Medusa set in '90s Greece which looks exceptionally bizarre and exciting. Next up is a collaboration between Mondo Macabro and the BFI in releasing Jose Ramon Larraz's Symptoms (Blu-ray), a film that has been rarely seen for many years. Both films are exciting, but I admit to being more excited about Symptoms because of Mondo Macabro's Pete Tombs' involvement with the release. You can check out more details, including pre-order information for Medousa in the gallery below....
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- 2/21/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Hammer Horror
In the heyday of the ‘sex-vampire’ film, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, the focus wasn’t on some squeaky-clean Robert-and-Kristen couple but on Eros and Thanatos – the mythical archetypes used to describe sex and death. Exploitation movie distributor Pete Tombs wrote about the sex-vampire phenomenon in his classic 1990s book, Immoral Tales: Sex & Horror Cinema In Europe, with Cathal Tohill. He also interviewed the films’ makers for celebrated Channel 4 series Eurotika!, and snapped up the rights to some of the movies for his company Mondo Macabro. He joins us on a short, heavy-breathing tour through one of the cinema’s most disreputable sub-genres…
“When vampires were first written about, they were like horrible, scuzzy, dirty old men really,” says my old pal Pete Tombs – who, given his lifelong love of the horror genre, really couldn’t have a more apt surname. “Horrible things that...
In the heyday of the ‘sex-vampire’ film, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, the focus wasn’t on some squeaky-clean Robert-and-Kristen couple but on Eros and Thanatos – the mythical archetypes used to describe sex and death. Exploitation movie distributor Pete Tombs wrote about the sex-vampire phenomenon in his classic 1990s book, Immoral Tales: Sex & Horror Cinema In Europe, with Cathal Tohill. He also interviewed the films’ makers for celebrated Channel 4 series Eurotika!, and snapped up the rights to some of the movies for his company Mondo Macabro. He joins us on a short, heavy-breathing tour through one of the cinema’s most disreputable sub-genres…
“When vampires were first written about, they were like horrible, scuzzy, dirty old men really,” says my old pal Pete Tombs – who, given his lifelong love of the horror genre, really couldn’t have a more apt surname. “Horrible things that...
- 5/19/2015
- by Paul Woods
- Obsessed with Film
Welcome to the latest episode of The ScreamCast! Each episode sees hosts Sean Duregger and Brad Henderson review a Scream Factory release, however this week the ScreamCast gang are doing things a little differently…
This week we discuss Mondo Macabro’s stunning blu-ray of Eckhart Schmidt’s Der Fan with Mondo Macabro co-founder Pete Tombs. Also, some Nazisploitation lands on Sean’s doorstep, while some musical comedies and mediocre action movies arrive on Brad’s doorstep.
Don’t forget to check out TheScreamCast.com for the show notes and for more news and reviews of Scream Factory releases and make sure to follow them on Twitter too!
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This week we discuss Mondo Macabro’s stunning blu-ray of Eckhart Schmidt’s Der Fan with Mondo Macabro co-founder Pete Tombs. Also, some Nazisploitation lands on Sean’s doorstep, while some musical comedies and mediocre action movies arrive on Brad’s doorstep.
Don’t forget to check out TheScreamCast.com for the show notes and for more news and reviews of Scream Factory releases and make sure to follow them on Twitter too!
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- 4/16/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
I first encountered the work of Filipino action hero and tiny man-child Weng Weng at this very festival in 2007. Andy Stark and Pete Tombs ran an absolutely bonkers reel of money shots from their Mondo Macabro release label in front of a Pakistani slasher film they produced that was playing at Fantasia that year. There was more than enough "Wtf" splashed on screen for those wild 16 minutes, but the clips featuring a 2 foot 9 inch James Bond sporting a jet pack, or jumping out of high rise and floating down with just an umbrella, was a stand out. This was the same year that The Chuds' Weng Weng Rap video popped up on a nascent Youtube, also featuring loads of clips from For Y'ur Height Only and The...
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- 7/28/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Earlier today, we posted a review for the Hindi independent film, Miss Lovely. While the film isn't a horror picture itself, it very much lives in the world of the cheap creature feature that was a staple of late '80s-early '90s Indian single screen rural theaters. Filmmakers like the Ramsay Brothers, on whom Miss Lovely's Duggal Brothers are very likely loosely based, could make very profitable careers with very meager capital. Like most of South Asian popular entertainment, Hindi Horrors passed by largely unnoticed in the west until Mondo Macabro's Pete Tombs took an active interest and released three of the most action-packed horror double features on the market today.Mondo Macabro's Bollywood Horror Collection is probably one of their most well-loved series, and with good...
- 10/25/2012
- Screen Anarchy
One of the many reasons that Mondo Macabro is so revered among cult film freaks around the world is their dedication to digging up the best stuff from corners of the world usually ignored by the masses. In this case, I specifically asked Pete Tombs about his forays into the murky world of Latin American exploitation and horror. This is a subject that, while dear to my heart as a proud Mexican-American, is also an area about which I know shamefully little beyond what Mondo Macabro has taught me.When I sent off my query about Mondo Macabro's impressive collection of Latin American horror, his response was so detailed and such a pleasure to read that I thought it would be a pity for me...
- 7/27/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Mondo Macabro, one of the most versatile independent video labels on the planet, has just signed an exclusive agreement with Danger After Dark for distribution. The first release of the new partnership will be UK slasher, Don't Open Till Christmas, fully uncut and featuring over an hour of bonus material, coming December 6th. I can't help but think that this is good news, Mondo Macabro has been fairly quiet this year, but the few titles they've released most recently have been fantastic, and hopefully this will usher in a new, more productive, era for Pete Tombs' and Andy Starke's amazing company.Danger After Dark to Distributemondo MacAbro Library In North AMERICAThe holiday fun begins with ultimate festive DVD release:1984's UK-slasher horror "Don't Open Till Christmas"re-mastered and...
- 10/29/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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Bringing more breasts per minute than any other film at the Toronto International Film Festival, or so I presume, Mark Hartley's Machete Maidens Unleashed does for the history of Filipino-shot B-film what Hartley's previous feature - Not Quite Hollywood - did for Australia.
From the early '70s well into the '90s the Philippines was a back-lot for a bevy of B-movie mavericks and cinema visionaries alike. The country was utilized for its inexpensive labour, exotic locations and distinct lack of rules. A large body of genre work emerged that somehow managed to capture the raw, chaotic energy of contemporary Filipino culture. These productions (a cavalcade of monster movies, jungle prison movies, blaxploitation and kung fu hybrids) were miraculously made at a time when the country's political situation was repressive at best.
Machete Maidens Unleashed! is the ultimate insiders' account of genre filmmaking in the Philippines. A role...
Bringing more breasts per minute than any other film at the Toronto International Film Festival, or so I presume, Mark Hartley's Machete Maidens Unleashed does for the history of Filipino-shot B-film what Hartley's previous feature - Not Quite Hollywood - did for Australia.
From the early '70s well into the '90s the Philippines was a back-lot for a bevy of B-movie mavericks and cinema visionaries alike. The country was utilized for its inexpensive labour, exotic locations and distinct lack of rules. A large body of genre work emerged that somehow managed to capture the raw, chaotic energy of contemporary Filipino culture. These productions (a cavalcade of monster movies, jungle prison movies, blaxploitation and kung fu hybrids) were miraculously made at a time when the country's political situation was repressive at best.
Machete Maidens Unleashed! is the ultimate insiders' account of genre filmmaking in the Philippines. A role...
- 8/17/2010
- Screen Anarchy
This year’s Fantasia is taking a while to get off the ground horror-wise, and it wasn’t until the second evening of the festival that we saw the first real horror related film of this year’s program, the documentary Herschell Gordon Lewis - The Godfather of Gore (review here).
The movie was thoroughly entertaining, containing tons of stories straight from Herschell, his collaborators, and high profile fans such as John Waters and Joe Bob Briggs. The screening was attended by the filmmaking team, Jimmy Maslon, Mike Vraney, and the always hilarious and informative Frank Henenlotter. The man himself, H.G. Lewis was also on hand to answer questions, and lead the Fantasia audience through a rollicking rendition of the 2000 Maniacs theme song! Yeeeeee-Haw!
Saturday was the first of many full-day movie watching sessions, and included the Greek zombie apocalypse flick Evil in the Time of Heroes, dysfunctional British family crime comedy Down Terrace,...
The movie was thoroughly entertaining, containing tons of stories straight from Herschell, his collaborators, and high profile fans such as John Waters and Joe Bob Briggs. The screening was attended by the filmmaking team, Jimmy Maslon, Mike Vraney, and the always hilarious and informative Frank Henenlotter. The man himself, H.G. Lewis was also on hand to answer questions, and lead the Fantasia audience through a rollicking rendition of the 2000 Maniacs theme song! Yeeeeee-Haw!
Saturday was the first of many full-day movie watching sessions, and included the Greek zombie apocalypse flick Evil in the Time of Heroes, dysfunctional British family crime comedy Down Terrace,...
- 7/11/2010
- by EvilAndy
- DreadCentral.com
The world is a better place because of films like Taiwan’s Thrilling Bloody Sword and better still because people like Colin Geddes - who owns and has preserved the print screened here in Sitges - and Mondo Macabro’s Pete Tombs and Andy Starke - who presented it to audiences - are here to point the way to find them. A ludicrously unauthorized remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Thrilling Bloody Sword has everything you could possibly want in a cult film: technicolored painted backdrops, evil magicians, a beautiful girl hatched from an egg, palace intrigue, a talking chicken, one-eyed demons, fire breathing nine headed serpents, dwarfs that are nothing but adult men walking on their knees and an invulnerable villain that can be killed only by stabbing him up the bum. I can’t say conclusively that director Cheung San-Yee was consuming large amounts of acid...
- 10/5/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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