Comments | strange_complex: 32. The Gorgon (1964), dir. Terence Fisher

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32. The Gorgon (1964), dir. Terence Fisher

Jan 02, 2016 23:44

My final film watched of 2015, I recorded this one off the Horror Channel a while ago, and watched it on New Year's Eve. It's a Hammer horror classic, right from their glorious hey-day, in which the Germanic village of Vandorf is troubled by the spirit of a millennia-old Gorgon who comes out when the moon is full and turns people to stone. It is ( Read more... )

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ms_siobhan January 4 2016, 11:13:24 UTC

Cushing better than Lee in this film, I really must rewatch it properly, I half watched it when it was broadcast but was too distracted to pay it proper attention at the time.

strange_complex January 4 2016, 11:32:21 UTC

You would definitely love Cushing in this! He does lots of sciencey stuff, and is all anguished and gentlemanly on the surface, but with a dark undertone that sends chills down the spine...

ms_siobhan January 4 2016, 11:36:31 UTC

Oooh :-)

I think I love him best as Viktor in the Curse of Frankenstein...v closely followed by his first two outings as Van Helsing and of course his blistering performance as the Reverend Blyss in Captain Clegg - he looks utterly delicious as a clergyman.

strange_complex January 4 2016, 11:46:03 UTC

He is definitely quite Viktor-ish in this one.