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.
Peter Cushing
as Dr. Namaroff
Christopher Lee
as Prof. Karl Meister
Richard Pasco
as Paul Heitz
Barbara Shelley
as Carla Hoffman
Michael Goodliffe
as Professor Jules Heitz
Patrick Troughton
as Inspector Kanof
Joseph O'Conor
as Coroner
Prudence Hyman
as The Gorgon
Jack Watson
as Ratoff
Jeremy Longhurst
as Bruno Heitz
John Chard
One of Terence Fisher's most undervalued films. "Overshadowing the village of Vandorf stands the Castle Borski. From the turn of the century a monster from an ancient age of history came to live here. No living thing survived and the spectre of death hovered in waiting for her next victim." Di...
Wuchak
***Medusaβs sister is loose in post-Victorian Germany!*** The spirit of one of the three Gorgon sisters from Greek mythology is terrorizing a German village in the early 1900s. A doctor (Peter Cushing) seems to be in denial about the supernatural element of the mounting deaths in the last seven y...