The Gorgon Review

Review of The Gorgon (1964) by screenqueeen: 👍 3/5

The mystery surrounding this myth is one of the most intriguing things about it but it gets too wrapped up in its own proceeding to give us more of the monster or the myth. It goes exactly where you think it will but takes a long time to get there as each scene has a substantial amount of dialog which makes it sort of a chewy experience with each character actor (that's not Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee).

When it picks up towards the finale things get as grandiose as should be expected but those themes are mostly missing from the rest of the film other than a paraphrased dictation of the legend of the three gorgons (now THAT'S a movie I'd like to see), but it just gets too bogged down in a procedural approach to really get the immediate peril the town is under and won't talk about. Still worth it but get ready for the glacial pace on this one.