A lot of heart was obviously put into this one, and I always get so caught up in it that I find myself willing events to not pan out the way they do.
It’s also genuinely moving, in part due to a simply superb performance by Barbara Shelley who was surely the best actress out of all of Hammer’s glamorous starlets. It’s also genuinely romantic in a way unusual for Hammer but which is very pleasing, at least in this instance, while it’s quite surprising that Terence Fisher and company were even able to make such a downbeat picture whose ending offers little more hope than the finale of The Damned. Heitz visits the nearby Castle Borski and catches Megaera’s petrifying gaze, but is able to leave a letter to his other son Paul before turning to stone….įull of gloomy fatalism worthy of the most downbeat film noir and absolutely oozing Gothic atmosphere, The Gorgon, perhaps partly because it doesn’t feature one of the typical monsters, doesn’t seem to get much attention, but I feel it just about makes the Hammer top ten, being extremely suspenseful and a little bit scary, and very well made in pretty much every department except for one sadly notable aspect. This fails to satisfy Bruno’s father Professor Heitz, who discovers that similar deaths have occurred in Vandorf which may be connected to the legend of Megaera, last of the three Gorgons. Namaroff, is that Sandra was murdered by her lover who then killed himself in a fit of remorse. The official verdict, aided by false testimony given by Dr. In the town of Vandorf in 1910, Sascha Cass flees her boyfriend Bruno Heitz after a row and is turned to stone, causing Bruno to hang himself. REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Starring: Barbara Shelley, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco
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