#monsterdon Were Christopher Lee and Vincent Price ever in a movie together and, follow-up question, can we watch that one?

@moira @YsengrinWolf with all this gorgonising we've overlooked an actual murder! #monsterdon

@ramsey @blogdiva @FeloniousPunk I was so for the pagans burning the judgemental christian policeman, and I felt everyone was on the same page too! A real spirit of community.

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Hammer did some good movies, right? That isn't something I made up, is it?

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@Zerofactorial They shoulda made it so they end up as statues together forever. #monsterdon

This concludes my most confused #monsterdon thread yet; thanks to @Taweret for hosting tonight's goofy ass wacko medusa murder mystery extravaganza!

The mirror, which is essential to the Medusa myth was a red herring? The mad woman was a red herring? The forehead acne was a red herring?

Was anything relevant?

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So, the Gorgon possessed Carla's body, grew snake hair and couldn't get another blouse?

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Gotta say it's some pretty good sword-versus-coatrack choreography

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he didn't even stick his dick in crazy and is fighting to the death for Carla? what a shmuck.

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I hope she does leave town and all these possessive losers behind

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Have you searched the sexyist room in the house?

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@riedlr There I lived, and there I turned to stone. It was only a moment for you, but the film still has 16 minutes left.

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Where's Scooby and the kids with the Mystery Van when you need them?

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@Lazarou I think they were doing the gorgon turns into a gorgon only on the full moon, because we're doing gorgon werewolves I guess? #monsterdon

How Carla Got Her Gorg Back

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"Oh Paul, hold me and let's reminisce about all our times together. Wait a minute we've only had about two minutes together in the whole movie. How is it that we're in love exactly?"

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I have lost track of why all these men are skulking around and hiding from each other....

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OK, ginger, and the gorgon, but no way she's 25, sorry.

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#monsterdon Heitz: "Carla... I'll take you away now!"

He's just trying to steal her epic cloak! Don't fall for it, Carla.

there is too much stiff british melodrama and not enough gorgonising

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Always with the nighttime grave digging in these flicks #monsterdon

Tubi ad break for me. Ugh.

So far this movie has a solid cast.

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"The proper word is Gorgonized."

Sounds like something you'd get done while having your tires rotated.

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@catzilla Once again, it's all an elaborate real estate plot #monsterdon

"no one has seen her and lived"

I wish I had that sort of dangerous reputation.

today's supervillains are so vain.

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10 Best Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing Horror Movies, Ranked By IMDb

https://screenrant.com/christopher-lee-peter-cushing-best-horror-movies-ranked-by-imdb/

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In the next scene, we see that Professor Dadbeard is back in his fanfiction library, when a servant disturbs him and we see that he is stoned! As in, his skin is all gray now and he is gradually turning to stone; he warns the servant away.

Releasing that he is doomed to be a clue in a monster mystery, he starts writing a letter to Doctor Muttonchops explaining that a monster is turning people into stone and only Doctor Muttonchops can resolve this because he is a Science Master.

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@blogdiva that screencap needs to be a meme #monsterdon

Unlike Bruno, this guy has a rock-solid alibi for future murders.

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OMG it's heart breaking when he tells his butler good-bye

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Oh no! The whole castle got turned to stone! The walls are stone! The floor!

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Why did people stop putting little doors in their doors?

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#monsterdon *a ghostly voice yodels off somewhere in the dark_

_extremely Frozen 2 voice_ into the unKNOOOOOOWN

@k8eb: "she's singing! That makes her a siren, not a gorgon."

Bruno's dad is probably using the caped coat that Peter Cushing used when he played Sherlock Holmes

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Okay, so Judge White Goatee decides that Bruno was the murderer who killed the girl and then himself in a fit of rage. Because no one mentioned that the body of the girl was turned to stone, this sounds plausible to the court.

Major oversight there... doctor muttonchops, major oversight.

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It's 1965 - the lesson here is surely that being involved with artists and nude models means certain death through divine justice!

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Please tell me the dog makes it

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that helmet is something special.

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OMG so she's posing naked for him so he can pay some debts? and she got knocked up too?

guuuuuuuuuuuuurl

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And we're away!

A Hammer Film Production?

Hope you're all wearing your hammer pants.

#MCHammer #cantTouchThis #monsterdon

A modern day version of that movie would have so many gorgonisations you'd almost be sick of them, but an algorithm has calculated how many gorgonisations is 'enough' so you'd give the sequel a go.

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last line shoulda been: "She's not just free... she's gorGONE!" #monsterdon

They f-ed off into the “She’s free”

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Aha - the ruins of the Castle Borski still has an intact mirror. Convenient.

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wow not only did we only get like 30 seconds of screen time for the gorgon, we also only got like 30 seconds of screen time for the rock guys. absolutely no british banter about how you look a tad stiff innit. #monsterdon

you know, i really can't complain any time we get both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing

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OH SNAP!

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Ahhh, the old 'head chop a medusa' move

You can use the head to kill the baddie on the next level

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#monsterdon Megaera's little twitching snake buddies are hilarious and adorable

The giant Lee, just throwing those two pigs like cats across a room

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An actor of Lee's stature deserved a better wig.

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Okay, so I missed part of the movie due to distraction, but what's going on is that the monster hunter guy, who I will call Saruman Mustache, now suspects that Madam Carrothair is possessed by the spirit of the Gorgon (Megara, who died 2000 years ago), who turns her into a medusa lady every full moon, like a snake girl werewolf and then she has some amnesia.

Also, there's the weird love triangle between Madam Carrothair, Inspector Nick and Doctor Muttonchops.

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I also stroke my moustache when I'm solving a murder.

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Too much exposition and life history, not enough gorgonising

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Peter Cushing was renowned for his poker face on set, needed not only for horror scenes but also for staying deadpan when a co-star accidentally let loose a 'special effect' in those tightly corseted costumes. #monsterdon

I am enjoying the whodunnit of it all. The pacing of this movie is surely slow, but "deliberate" is perhaps more fair

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@Taweret let's get some gorgonising going! #monsterdon

#monsterdon A little less kissing and a little more snekification, please and thank you

i really would like a hot bowl of borschtski

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Immediately blames The Other

"Bring me a list of all outsiders!"

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Carla has exactly one blouse.

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"Don't use long words, they don't suit you!"

lol, slap him again!

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Okay, so Christopher Lee appears in the guise of a guy with a floppy hat who is I guess is a monster hunter doing an investigation. Then Doctor Muttonchops is doing an autopsy, which involves removing a brain and putting it in a wet jar to make a mixed drink for sober mind flayers.

He then has a conversation with Carla, where we reveal that the Doctor does have gorgon knowledge, and thinks the gorgon has taken human form but he won't explain more until he is Sure.

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Sherlock vibes are strong. A really hairy Sherlock. #monsterdon

@paco the illusion is shattered now #monsterdon

Come away with me to France. Nothing bad is going to happen in France in the next few years.

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@diazona Everyone in town could just wear glasses with mirrors looking behand and forward, and everyone would be inoculated

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My wife would love a cloak like that nurse lady has, but in green I think.
Or purple

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so, is the Gorgon the doctor's ex-wife?

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Mr. Heights, we don't talk about your father… or Bruno.

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so, what if we throw some cob webs onto the White House and call it a hunted castle. do y'all think white folks will go running into it to find the monsters?

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Thank you nurse. Is he hard yet?

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Aha - reflective viewing is safe? Time to break out the mirrors.

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#monsterdon The weather patterns in this scene are very confusing. Instant rain? Violent winds and thunder? The rain instantly disappears again!? I think our protagonist here had some bad rarebit before going to sleep and this was all a bad dream.

(edit: extra points to anyone who recalls The Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend)

shawty ain't dying cuz he saw her first on the reflection?

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What kind of gorganization are you running here? Everyone’s getting stoned for free!

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these exteriors are absolutely claustrophobic. well done, set designer, well done.

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@SRLevine I'm lucky if I can scrawl "Help me" with a pen now...

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@kshernandez this is how I fell when young people are running around with their energy #monsterdon

And what's with the forehead pimples? That's definitely not in Edith Hamilton's Mythology.

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Okay, so taking the bad advice, Professor Dad Beard follows the Beautiful Ethereal Singing voice into the abandoned castle that's been trashed; he furthers its trashing by tripping on things and disturbing some innocent pigeons who were probably peacefully pooping over the castle ruins.

Eventually, he glimpses a Beautiful Spooky Lady hiding behind a mirror, then screams and runs outside.

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Dude had no idea his garden was this big....

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Doctor Muttonchops is visited by the dad of the dead guy, who I will call Professor Dadbeard, who tells him the Legend of the Gorgon, and Doctor Muttonchops tries to quietly warn him off. Professor Dadbeard plays Mage: The Ascension so he believes in supernatural things, while Doctor Muttonchops is a technocrat who at least pretends not to.

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THat is the most civilized unruly mob ever #monsterdon

@moira @hollie t'isn't t'all neccesary

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Why don't we still have wallpaper like that?

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Ladies, take notes, that peach-coloured number is the appropriate get-up for a Coroner's hearing.

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Wait, does Professor Heights know this is #monsterdon? It sure seems like it from that critique.

"Rather than my son being a drunken arsehole who killed his pregnant girlfriend, I suggest.....The Gorgon!"

His lawyer winces....

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A Libertine and a Bohemian, I mean that's flattering!

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Everybody must get stoned!

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Why do I have a feeling Bruno is about to become a running #monsterdon joke?

Okay, so the painter guy is named "Bruno" and the boobs he is painting are attached to a brunette whose name I didn't learn, but I shall call her "Shauna" because that seems fine. We learn that Shauna is pregnant with Bruno's kid, causing Bruno to run to tell her dad to either arrange a shotgun wedding or a shotgun funeral, I'm not sure which.

Anyway, Bruno runs off into the woods and then Shauna later runs off into the woods, so both of them can get lost in the dark.

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So #TheGorgon starts with a slide show showing us a cool castle surrounded by leaves, along with eerie music. Encouragingly, both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are in this movie. We then get a quick infodump from some words that go by fast... we learn the castle is called "Borski" and there's some kind of ancient monster there or something.

Then the scene cuts to a painter drawing some boobs.

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@gnomon IMDb advanced search shows a few Vincent Price / Christopher Lee collaborations, ignoring TV series and documentaries:

The Oblong Box (1969)
Scream and Scream Again (1970) with Cushing
House of the Long Shadows (1983) with Cushing

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I can't help but compare everything Lee was in with The Wicker Man, which isn't fair. That kind of script doesn't come along everyday.

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@RobynGoodfellow now that's a good film, that's in the 'Wicker Man' category #monsterdon

@FeloniousPunk One thing you learn very quickly from #Monsterdon is that the quality of the movie and the quality of the viewing experience are two very different things 😅

Why did Magera stop singing?

Don’t be shy Magera, you have a LOVELY voice!

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