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Christopher Lee (Actor), Peter Cushing (Actor), Terence Fisher (Director) Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
  • Directors: Terence Fisher
  • Format: Subtitled, PAL, Colour, Widescreen, Anamorphic
  • Language: English, German, Spanish
  • Subtitles: Danish, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Dubbed: German, Spanish
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Oct. 2010
  • Run Time: 83 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B003AWMWH4
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 15,725 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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In a Balkan village, a professor investigates the suicide of his youngest son. No one is willing to help the professor, so he enters the ruins of a local castle where he encounters the legendary GORGON whose gaze turns men to stone. Before dying, the professor warns his eldest son who continues the investigation.

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Hammer Studios was on a roll by 1964, adapting and updating classic movie monsters with a gory gothic slant, but the fantasy-tinged thriller The Gorgon was a rare attempt at producing their own creature. Transporting the Greek Gorgon myth to turn-of-the-century Europe, Terence Fisher invests the rural mittel-European village with a kind of cursed decay. A deserted castle dominates the perpetually mist-bound landscape while a series of unexplained murders leave victims turned to cold, grey stone. The details are carefully hushed up by local doctor and asylum director Peter Cushing, who helps frame an outsider for the latest murder, which brings a parade of outsiders in to clear his name. Christopher Lee, under grey hair and bushy mustache, arrives in the third act to play a shaggy but sharp old professor, a scientist whose reason and determination cuts through the emotionally clouded motivations of both his allies and enemies. Fisher creates a thick atmosphere of suspicion and dread while driving the mystery ahead with a rapid pace, which helps overcome the gaps in logic of the town's murky conspiracy. The special effects are frankly stiff and unconvincing: the snakes sprouting from the Gorgon's head are jittery, lifeless stalks that pale next to the gorgeous creation by Ray Harryhausen in Clash of the Titans, but Fisher manages to give the Gorgon's scenes an eerie beauty. --Sean Axmaker

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4.0 out of 5 starsOne of Terence Fisher's most undervalued films.
By Spike Owen TOP 500 REVIEWER on 2 Mar. 2011
Format: DVD
"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 bit off kilter in terms of classical Hammer Horror, The Gorgon sees Hammer turn to Greek Mythology for its latest instalment.

The key issue here is that The Gorgon should be viewed more as a doomed love story featuring a legendary horror character. To call this a horror film is just wrong, and marketing it a such has done the film few favours over the years. Fisher always thought of The Gorgon as one of his best films, and he was right to do so for it's a hauntingly beautiful piece of work, a film that is also one of Hammer's most visually accomplished efforts. Yes the effects of the Gorgon herself come the finale are low budgeted naffness, to which if it had been possible to never show close ups of her the film would have been greater. More so because all the prior long distance shots of her have gained maximum chill factor. She's a floaty green demon accompanied by eerie music, effectively shot in dreamy Technicolor by Michael Reed. But cest la vie, the story is such we have to have these close ups, so lets just embrace this minor itch for existing in a time before CGI and applaud its adherence to the Gothic tradition that the film faithfully captures.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsYou Just Cant Beat the Old Hammer Films
By Penny Lane on 18 Jan. 2012
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
The colours in the Hammer films are rich and deep, no wishy washy pale colours here, they all have this glorious glow to them. A huge fan, this is one that got away from me, it was on a late night TV and found it captivating, the only one who was missing was Vincent Price, then we would have had the three masters who dominated the screens.
Great story line with a twist, " The Gorgon " is a wonderful piece of film, not forgetting the special FX at that time compared to today were limited, even so, personally I thought it was great, and have watched it more than once.
A must have to all Hammer film buffs
Recommended
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5.0 out of 5 starsEXCELLENT HAMMER HORROR
By BABU VARMA on 1 Sept. 2010
Format: DVD
The Gorgon [DVD]This is one of those 'out-of-the-way' Hammer productions that scored well with audiences the World over. The tale of one of the three Gorgon sisters inhabiting a castle somewhere in Europe is quite thrillingly shot. Two of the most famous names in the Horror Genre, Sir Christopher Lee and the late Peter Cushing give excellent performances amply supported by the rest of the cast which includes the much used Hammer beauty Barbara Shelly and Patrick Troughton. The setting is the village of Vandorf. A young painter falls in love with one of his models, a local girl, and both are found dead under mysterious surroundings. When the chief Inspector, played by Patrick Troughton, asks Doctor Namaroff (Peter Cushing) whether an autopsy would be performed, the cryptic reply is: "On a body that's turned to Stone?" Thus begins on of Hammer's greatest Horror Masterpieces. The village is plagued by a centuries-old mythical demon. Sir Lee, for once, is the 'good guy'. He plays Professor Meister, a friend of the young boy's father, who is called in to investigate the singular occurrences. Fans of Hammer should own a copy of the DVD. You will not regret your decision. Well acted, well set and well directed.
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4.0 out of 5 starsExcellent and unusual scarce Hammer Horror
By BlackBrigand TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 30 May 2013
Format: DVD
THE GORGON Hammer Films 1964 - Region 2 DVD

Back in the 1980s I replaced most of my collection of 8mm movies with VHS and now I am going through a same process of upgrading everything to DVD. This also gives me the excuse to revisit films which I have not seen for some time.

THE GORGON has for some reason always been one of those elusive films to obtain in R2,(Along with Curse of the Werewolf and Kiss of the Vampire), it took me ages to track down a copy of the VHS tape and although the DVD was finally released in 2010 after being suspended due to legal issues it quickly went out of circulation and has only recently been re-released.

This has always been one of my personal favourites from the Hammer Films stable, perhaps not their best film but one that has an original storyline, a great cast, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Barbara Shelley, Patrick Troughton and Richard Pasco and good special effects and make-up for the Gorgon.

The story is set in the German village of Vandorff in the early 20th. Century, where, a number of murders have been committed each victim having been petrified into a stone figure. The local police chief, has failed to apprehend the murderer and is unwilling to dig too deeply into the local belief that a legendary monster is responsible. When a another girl becomes the latest victim and her lover is arrested the father of the condemned man decides to investigate and discovers that the cause of the petrifying deaths is indeed a monster, the last of the snake-haired Gorgon sisters who haunts the local castle and turns victims to stone during the full moon.Read more ›
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