# Identify this movie (horror movie)

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**Created:** [August 2, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-horror-movie/414183 "2007-08-02T20:59:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-horror-movie/414183/1 "2007-08-02T20:59:08Z")

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OK, so I saw it on a Saturday afternoon waaaayyy back in my youth - which was the late 70s, so the movie itself is either mid-to-late 1960s, or early 1970s. (Another clue that it was made during that time period - all the women in it had shoulder-length, straight hair a la Marcia Brady.)

The movie might have been dubbed into english. I recall vaguely that it was one of those flicks where lip-movements didn’t quite match up with the spoken words.

Anyway, the only scene I can absolutely recall was the finale. A young couple (man & woman) are taken to a Medeival-ish torture chambers in the bowels of some gothic estate. They are both strapped to a weird rack-like torture device (standing up, not lying down though) that stretches their bodies to painful lengths.

What was truly odd was that the device was cranked by a pale-faced zombie woman stepping on a mill-wheel. The zombie woman was manacled to the wall just above the wheel, which turned as she plodded along, and her feet hit the blades on the wheel. (Imagine a wooden stair-master machine - as zombie chick kept stepping forward, her feet landed on the blades of the mill-wheel, which kept it spinning, and subsequently cranked the rack.) I know this is must be confusing to read, but I simply don’t know how to describe it better.

Anyway, the hapless hero & heroine are writhing in agony as their limbs get stretched further & further. They call out to the zombie woman (she is obviously someone they know), and beg her for help. Zombie chick reaches out to a nearby candle and knocks it over - starting a fire that burns the rack (allowing hero & heroine to escape) and quickly engulfs the room and estate. The hero & heroine escape, but not before looking back and seeing the zombie-chick still staring off into space and plodding away on the wheel, oblivious to the spreading fire.

If anyone can actually identify this movie, I waill be incredibly surprised. But I’ll throw it out there anyway.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Hildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Johnny\_Hildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Hildo)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-horror-movie/414183/2 "2007-08-02T23:18:47Z")

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[Mill of the Stone Women?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054099/)

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**Author:** ![Antist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@Antist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antist)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-horror-movie/414183/3 "2007-08-03T00:06:28Z")

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My horror movie freak of a husband says it sounds a lot like [Seven Women for Satan](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316886/).

1976, French, castle with a torture dungeon…?