The Gorgon

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Richard W A b horror movie ..I'm a bit nostalgic when it comes to watching christopher lee and old actors .great set great acting..story line was ok it actually caught me half way through ..and I thought hey this is not too bad Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/27/24 Full Review Blobbo X No man looks upon The Gorgon and lives! (Other than that, pretty good picture.) Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/09/24 Full Review Audience Member The Gorgon often feels slow, especially when it's taking forever for characters to turn to stone after looking in the monster's eyes, but after Christopher Lee comes bursting in, the movie is able to deliver an exciting final confrontation even if the Gorgon doesn't look believable enough to freeze anyone with fear. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member One of my favorites of all the hammer films. Atmospheric with a few jump-scares and very well acted by all parties concerned Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member 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.  Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Jon C 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. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/09/17 Full Review Read all reviews

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