The Gorgon

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The Gorgon is a 1964 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Studios.

It stars Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley and Richard Pasco. It is 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 the studio turned to Greek mythology for inspiration; this time it is the legend of the Gorgon that is respun for the Hammer audiences. The result is a fantastical, almost surreal fairy-tale that has not traditionally been well-received either by critics or Hammer fans.

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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, Persephone, 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.)
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.