Mill of the Stone Women

Mill of the Stone Women (original title Il mulino delle donne di pietra), directed by Giorgio Ferroni, is an Italian-French gothic horror co-production that opened in Italy on August 30, 1960, notable as Italy's first color (Eastmancolor) horror film. The film follows a professor living in an isolated windmill who conducts blood transfusion and petrification experiments to save his sick daughter. Its credits claim the film was adapted from a story by one Pieter van Weigen in a book called Flemish Tales, but no such writer or book actually exists; according to film historian Roberto Curti, this was a fabricated source attribution invented by the filmmakers to give the film an exotic sense of origin. The film was released in the UK as Drops of Blood. Who it's for: anyone curious about a gothic horror classic, considered Italy's first color horror film, whose credits cite an entirely invented literary source. Who it's not for: anyone assuming it was adapted from a real literary work and looking to track that source down, since the credited book and author are entirely fictional.