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

A visual essay on the trope of the wax/statue woman in Gothic horror

• Documentary
• Horror

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.

Release date

February 17, 2025

Runtime

24m

Language

English

Director

Kat Ellinger

Status

Released