1964 · creature · hammer · gothic
The Gorgon
Directed by Terence Fisher1h 23m1964
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.
Our read: The Gorgon (1964) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive creature · hammer · gothic entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured creature / hammer, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
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