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The Gorgon1964

Name: The Gorgon
Genre: Monster & Creature, Gothic, Classic Monsters, Supernatural
Released: 1964-10-18
Rating: 6.5

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

Directed by Terence Fisher

6.5

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IMDb 6.4Rotten Tomatoes 67%TMDB 6.4

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Year

1964

Runtime

83 min

The premise

In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned 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.

Horror Vault's take

In a fog-draped early 20th-century German village, a string of young men are discovered dead — their bodies turned inexplicably to stone. When a determined professor arrives to unravel the killings, he finds a community gripped by secrecy and dread, and a mystery that cuts far closer to home than he bargained for. Hammer Horror brings one of antiquity's most fearsome creatures to vivid, unsettling life in this atmospheric blend of Gothic romance and mythological terror.

Content: Mild Horror Violence, Depictions Of Petrification And Death, Threat Toward Women