Mill of the Stone Women & The Gothic Body

Mill of the Stone Women & The Gothic Body (2025)

Documentary Horror

Runtime: 24 minutes

Overview

A visual essay on the trope of the wax/statue woman in Gothic horror by author and critic Kat Ellinger. She examines the film through “body Gothic”: the way Gothic horror turns women’s bodies into sites of beauty, vulnerability, illness, artistic display, medical exploitation, and death.

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