The Gorgon poster
Director Terence Fisher
Screenplay John Gilling

The Gorgon

Tagline: A venture into the deepest, starkest realms of the supernatural...

Release Date: 1964-10-18

Duration: 83 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Christopher Lee
    Prof. Karl Meister
  • Peter Cushing
    Dr. Namaroff
  • Patrick Troughton
    Inspector Kanof
  • Barbara Shelley
    Carla Hoffman
  • Joseph O'Conor
    Coroner
  • Jack Watson
    Ratoff
  • Sally Nesbitt
    Nurse
  • Richard Pasco
    Paul Heitz
  • Michael Goodliffe
    Professor Jules Heitz
  • Alister Williamson
    Janus Cass