Mill of the Stone Women & The Gothic Body
“A visual essay on the trope of the wax/statue woman in Gothic horror”
2025•24m•Released
DocumentaryHorror
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.
Director
Kat Ellinger
Writer
Kat Ellinger
Languages
English
Studio
Arrow Film & Video
Cast
Kat Ellinger
Narrator
Production
Company
Arrow Film & Video
Producer
Kat Ellinger
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