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Sony Pictures Release date: Tuesday 14th of October 2008 Starring: Peter Cushing, Ann Todd, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco, Susan Strasberg, Director(s): Format: Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC, Region code: 1 Running time: 333 minutes Language: English (Original Language)

HAMMER VERSION OF THE GORGON
Review date: 2008-11-18 Rating: 10 out of 10

Icons of Horror: Hammer Films (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Hammer added another 'classic' monster with Terence Fisher's THE GORGON (1964). Filled with chilling menace, the film is set in the Transylvanian village of Vandorf, terrorized by a series of killings in which the victims have turned to STONE. The Gorgon, Magaera, is found in the nearby ruins of the Castle Borski, but the discoverer is himself turned to stone, having just time to summon help in the form of his son and his son's tutor, Professor Meinster ( Christopher Lee, in a fine set of whiskers and playing for once, the avenger )! Eventually the Gorgon, is found to be in possession of the beautiful Carla Hoffman (Barbara Shelly) assistant and ex-patient of the sinister Professor Namaroff ( Peter Cushing ). Roy Ashton's make-up for the Gorgon, haloed with a hissing, striking frieze of serpents, makes Megaera, a true and unique female monster