The Gorgon

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Movie Facts

Status: Released

Runtime: 83

Budget: -

Revenue: -

Language: en

Webpage: -

Release Info

1964-08-21
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1965-02-17
NR

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In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive that she transformed the onlooker using the power of her deadly stare. Much of the time the creature took the form of a beautiful and seductive woman, but during periods of the full moon she becomes a living horror, vicious and deadly. A professor has come to investigate the deaths, bringing with him his beautiful assistant whose knowledge of the Gorgon is more intimate than anyone would ever realise.

Tagline

A venture into the deepest, starkest realms of the supernatural...

Crew

Director:	Terence Fisher
Writer:	John Gilling

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Cast

Christopher Lee
as Prof. Karl Meister

Peter Cushing
as Dr. Namaroff

Barbara Shelley
as Carla Hoffman

Michael Goodliffe
as Professor Jules Heitz…

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Production Companies

Hammer Film Productions

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A review by John Chard

One of Terence Fisher's most undervalued films.

"Overshadowing the village of Vandorf stands the Castle Borski. From the turn of the century a monster from an ancient age of history came to live here. No living thing survived and the spectre of death hovered in waiting for her next victim."

Directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Film Productions, The Gorgon stars Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley and Richard Pasco. Photography is by Michael Reed, the design courtesy of Bernard Robinson and the unique score is by James Bernard (he blended Soprano with a Novachord). Very much a... read the rest.