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It stars Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley and Richard Pasco. The film was photographed by Michael Reeves, and designed by Bernard Robinson. For the haunting score James Bernard combined a soprano with a little-known electronic instrument called the Novachord. The film marks one of the few occasions when Hammer turned to Greek mythology for inspiration; this time it is the legend of the Gorgon that is respun for the Hammer audiences. The film was not generally well-received either by critics or Hammer fans. Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE, (26 May 1913-11 August 1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite his close friend Christopher Lee. ... Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE (born May 27, 1922) is an English actor known for his professional longevity and his distinctive basso delivery. ... Barbara Shelley (born August 15, 1933) is a British film and television actor She is now retired, but was at her busiest in the late 1950s (Blood of the Vampire) and 1960s when she became Hammer Horrors number one female star, with The Gorgon (1964), Dracula, Prince of Darkness... Richard Pasco as Boris Zargo in Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966) Richard Edward Pasco (b. ... Michael Reeves (October 17, 1943 - February 11, 1969) was an English film director. ... Bernard Robinson was born in Liverpool, England in 1912 and died in 1970. ... James Bernard was a British film composer born in 1925 and dying in 2001. ... This article is about the singing voice part. ... The Novachord was an early synthesizer manufactured by Hammond from 1939. ... The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ... See also Gorgona, for the Colombian/Italian islands. ...

Plot

In the rural German village of Vandorf, seven murders have been commited in the past seven years, each victim having been petrified into a stone figure. Rather than investigate it, the local authorities dismiss the murders for fear of a local legend having come true. When a local girl becomes the latest victim and her suicidal lover made the scapegoat, the brother of the condemned man decides to investigate and discovers that the cause of the petrifying deaths is a phantom. The very last of the snake-haired Gorgon sisters who haunts the local castle and turns victims to stone during the full moon.

Trivia

• The Gorgon herself is called Megaera, although according to classical mythology, Megaera was not a Gorgon at all. In fact, of the three Gorgons named in the film - Megaera, Tesiphone, and Medusa - only Medusa was actually a Gorgon in classical Greek mythology. The other two should be properly named Stheno and Euryale. (The Gorgon in the film would be one of these last two, Medusa having been slain by Perseus centuries before.)
• In the German dubbed version of this movie (called Die brennenden Augen von Schloss Bartimore) the correct names of the three Gorgons - Medusa, Stheno and Euryale - are used instead of a direct translation of the original English dialogue.
• The Gorgon was played in the film by Prudence Hyman.
• The script was novelized by John Burke as part of his The Hammer Horror Omnibus paperback in 1966.
• The name 'Gorgon' was later used in 2007 in episode 3 and 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Megaera (Greek: Μέγαιρα, the jealous one) is one of the Erinyes in Greek Mythology. ... Classical or Greco-Roman mythology usually refers to the mythology, and the associated polytheistic rituals and practices, of Classical Antiquity. ... Medusa, by Arnold Böcklin (1878) In Greek mythology, Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα, guardian, protectress[1]) was a monstrous chthonic female character, essentially an extension of an apotropaic mask, gazing upon whom could turn onlookers to stone. ... Stheno (forceful), (Greek: Σθεννω), in Greek mythology, was one of the Gorgons, vicious female monsters with brass hands, sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. ... Euryale as depicted in God of War II. Euryale (far-roaming), in Greek mythology, was one of the immortal Gorgons, three vicious sisters with brass hands, sharp fangs, and hair of living, venomous snakes. ... Perseus with the head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova, completed 1801 (Vatican Museums) Perseus, Perseos, or Perseas (Greek: Περσεύς, Περσέως, Περσέας), the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty there, and was the hero who killed Medusa. ... For other men with the same name, see John Burke (disambiguation). ...

External link

• The Gorgon at the Internet Movie Database