There’s a thing on the Mastodon decentralized social network called Monsterdon, where people choose a cheesy old monster movie , watch it at the same time, and live comment on it. I don’t participate that often, but after the heaviness of No Other Land , the Hammer Films movie The Gorgon was exactly what I needed.
In a small European city that seems to exist in both the 1750s and the 1960s, a series of mysterious deaths has been occurring over the previous five years, The coroner declares they are all caused by heart failure, even though there’s a subtle clue that it might be something else: the bodies have all turned to stone. Could it be related to the mysterious woman who had a strange affliction around the same time the deaths started? I’ll never tell. Also: I learned that turning to stone starts with gray pimples on your forehead. Maybe it could be prevented with a little benzoyl peroxide.
This movie’s poster is a classic example of “You’ll get it if you see the reference poster.”
