The Gorgon

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Luke R Oct 27, 2018 A Hammer film that looks to Greek mythology for the basis of it's plot with the mythical creature known as The Gorgon (a woman with snakes for hair and the ability to turn anyone who looks her in the eye to stone) being adapted and shone through the Hammer Films' prism.  This film features the combined talents of Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Patrick Troughton who are all amazing. In fact, the storyline between Cushing, his wife and her lover overshadows the actual gorgon at one point. This isn't detrimental to the film's narrative though.  This film looks absolutely beautiful. I watched the restored Blu-ray version from the first Indicator boxset and they have done a phenomenal job. I hadn't even heard of this film before the release of the boxset but I'm glad I did. It's a brilliant film and deserves to be seen more widely. I would love a cinema release of some of Hammer's films so that their full glory can be seen on the big screen.  See more

Luke R Nov 9, 2017 British film studio Hammer made its reputation in the 1960s as a producer of better than average horror films. The Gorgon, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, all three veteran horror film stalwarts, retells the story from Greek myth of the snake-haired woman so ugly that anyone who looks directly at her is turned to stone. The most interesting thing about the film is the mise-en-scene: the story is reset in a supposedly Eastern European village but the environment seems like a cross between Transylvania and Sussex; the interiors and costumes are richly detailed and credible. The acting is as good as you would expect from Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, with the latter rather atypically playing the good guy rather than a villain. The film is good enough that it might have been a minor classic of the horror genre, except for one huge flaw. (Possible spoiler ahead, but if you know the myth at all you will know what happens anyway.) At the end of the film, in what is supposed to be the peak of the horror, when we finally get a closeup of the Gorgon's decapitated head, it is ridiculously obvious that it is the head of a mannequin. It is about as convincing a special effect as you would expect in a movie made by high school students in their garage. That aside, the rest of the film is good enough to be watchable and will be of interest especially to fans of the horror genre. See more

George W Jul 24, 2017 The Gorgon is a really good film, with a great plot, beautiful set design, an awesome monster and a phenomenal climax. It should be one of the all-time Hammer classics, but the actors are totally phoning it in, bringing the profile of this film down considerably. Still, absolutely check it out! See more

Han P May 7, 2017 Fun little hammer horror. Classic Monster movie thrills with Cushing and Lee. Good for a midnight movie.

Abraham G Mar 30, 2017 Old Friday Night Creature Feature Fare.

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