Dude died like THIS. You will not be putting him in a coffin like THAT. Did you break his arms off or something? #monsterdon

There she goes quoting things again...is she a robot?

Are there secret robots in this?

#monsterdon

our mans is gonna open that casket like it ain't already got worms? c'mon man.

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon

That's not six feet under....

#monsterdon

So Inspector Nick recounts that he was wandering around the woods then saw a snake girl, and she was the most horrible thing he's ever seen, which is not a nice thing to say about snake girls.

He then has a nightmare that she was around the house and he almost saw her, but Madam Carrothair comforts him, saying it was a dream. In the morning he looks a lot older, but is not a statue. He is trying to convince Doctor Muttonchops to help him investigate the monster.

#monsterdon

Someone didn't like these year of the snek celebrations

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon

"GOOD DAY SIR!!!!""

it's kicking off in a very middle class British style

#monsterdon

Since these people are obviously incapable of doing the right thing and getting the hell out of there, they should all be wearing periscope glasses. Seems sensible. #monsterdon

Do you have time to talk about our lord and savior, Bruno?

#monsterdon

World, the time has come to gorgonize. #Monsterdon

Okay, so we've decided to assemble the Research Team, comprising Doctor Muttonchops, Madam Carrothair and Inspector Nick.

Learning that Professor Dadbeard was a Mythology Expert, and we learn that Megara was one of the Medusa ladies in Ancient Greece, which was a cool place with lots of snake monsters and horny gods and things, and that looking at her would turn you to stone.

#monsterdon

Cushing's character is quite the dick to the Working class characters, have you noticed?

Very british movie....

#monsterdon

Gorgonized, when I smoke too much Mary Jane

#monsterdon

@apLundell Plot twist: she was the Gorgon all along #monsterdon

ok this movie just became worth it with the line "the proper word is gorgonized" #monsterdon

Okay, so Inspector Nick is also the son of Professor Dadbeard (RIP) and brother of Bruno (RIP). He's wandering around and has a conversation with a ginger lady who I think is Madam Carrottop but might also be someone different... I guess the characters without confusing facial hair need to wear hats for me to tell anyone apart in this movie.

#monsterdon

hey hey Cushing, boundaries!

#monsterdon

@Lazarou I thought she was kinda hot, you know, the whole turning people to stone thing aside
#monsterdon

"Hideous"

So judgemental....

#monsterdon

@athena_rising lol I will always retoot an unexpected Dune reference! #monsterdon

Somebody asked about what commercials other people are getting. I mute commercials andswitch to another tab. They ain't getting me.

#monsterdon

Can I help you

<Boobs>

#monsterdon

Come on people, clearly he had his safety squints engaged

#monsterdon

For those about to rock, we salute you. #monsterdon

I keep hearing him say 'madera' and then wanting a glass of wine

#monsterdon

Where's the #ELO theme when you want them?

🎵 I turn to stone, when you are gone
I turn to stone
Turn to stone, when you comin' home
I can't go on 🎵

#monsterdon

@SRLevine they all knew how to write like that back then, it was taught in schools. A distant age... #monsterdon

@diazona they really knew how to pad out a letter back then.... #monsterdon

Dear son, you can find the cure in the castle Arrrrggghhhhh

Perhaps he was dictating.
#monsterdon

Don't peek in at the gorgons dude. It can't end well.

#monsterdon

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Gorgon turns people to stone instantly.

#monsterdon

So... he's just walking into the forbidden castle?

#monsterdon

@hollie I would have that on all the time #monsterdon

he's gonna get gorgonated!

#monsterdon

You know you're rich when your doors have doors.
#Monsterdon #TheGorgon

@SnoopJ I'm counting this as "Gentleman ignores obvious dangers" for bingo purposes

#Monsterdon

Guess this Gorgon's got a little siren in her too. #Monsterdon #TheGorgon

this film is SO British!!!

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon 👹 🙍 🙎 🗿 🗿 😱

Peter Cushing only took on the ascot in the courtroom, but Christopher Lee is ascotted from the first scene!

BEAUTIFUL matte of Leipzig

#Monsterdon

Obviously the torch threw itself in! #Monsterdon

Peter KUSH-ing going to investigate how people are getting stoned

#monsterdon #thegorgon

Wait, wasn't Megaera one of the erynis, not a gorgon?

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon

uh-oh, he's dropping his 'Gorgon Theory'

#monsterdon

#FreeBruno

#monsterdon

OJ Simpson said "The Gorgon did it!"

#monsterdon

This film really is a who's who of British horror actors of the era. I swear I have seen every actor in this in something else.

#monsterdon #TheGorgon

Legiterally laughed out loud at the magistrate or whatever saying the guy's son was "something of a bohemian" when for all we know they're actually in Bohemia

#Monsterdon

we should bring back the word "libertine," I would self-identify as a libertine but I have tomorrow off and I'm sitting here watching an old-timey monster movie, so... counts me out I guess #monsterdon

Bruno was a pretty tame artist, for the time.

#monsterdon

@allanb I can't even....#monsterdon

HE knew of Bruno's reputation

#monsterdon

The gallery is judged by their best "act like a statue" face #monsterdon

autopsy averted
#monsterdon

Did the Gorgon give her acne?

#monsterdon

"Give us your best stage scream!"

#monsterdon

Lady: He'll kill you if you go to him!
Bruno: Hold my beer!
#monsterdon

"Skip the nonsense, get straight to the titties" - the producer, probably

#monsterdon

the Castle Borski? as in borscht but make by a polish cook?

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon

@blogdiva Now witness the full power of this gorgon
#monsterdon

Creepy music, check... matte painting, check ...

#monsterdon

#monsterdon MONSTERDON IS GO, GET ROLLING

Honestly, I marble at how we didn't make more rock puns during #TheGorgon. #monsterdon

With Hammer films fresh in the discussion it has come to my attention that Quatermass and the Pit aka 5 million years to earth is available on The Internet Archive. That would be a great followup. https://archive.org/details/quatermassandthepit_202002

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon

@YsengrinWolf @jsadow@c18.masto.host ah yeah i forgot about that

SOMEONE has got away with MURDER

paging jessica fletcher

jessica fletcher please report to 1907 europe

#monsterdon #TheGorgon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk #monsterdon

@FeloniousPunk oh, dude. Hammer films are classics. And this one had Lee *and* Cushing! The other one that comes immediately to mind is "Horror Express," but I think that came from American International (Roger Corman's production house).

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon should be proud of me, the resident cannabis worker, for not making a single "stoned" joke this evening. I enjoyed all the ones others made, though!

@diazona @FeloniousPunk What makes it good is following the hashtag and watching along with everyone. It's the experience and community that's awesome.

#Monsterdon

maugra-reee

maugra-raiiiii

mougra-raaaaaaa

#monsterdon #TheGorgon

The Gorgon was a mannequin the whole time?!

#monsterdon #thegorgon

@FeloniousPunk No, most are worse.

#monsterdon

I know we got a lot of stats people on the hashtag. We should start a running tally of movies with denouement and movie that just END. I bet the just END number would be much larger. #Monsterdon #TheGorgon

This was my first #Monsterdon . They’re all not THAT bad, are they?

i just want rubberised gorgon victim statues is that so wrong

#monsterdon #TheGorgon

James Bernard did a good job with the music.

#Monsterdon
#TheGorgon
#rewind

Bruno just wasn’t ready to be a father. He wasn’t murdered after all.

#thegorgon #monsterdon

So I missed the first 34 minutes, so I'm looping it back around and Patrick Troughton is in this?!?!

#Monsterdon
#TheGorgon
#rewind

I can barely manage to trim my own beard backwards looking into a mirror so I probably couldn’t handle a decapitation. #Monsterdon

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event. This week we watched THE GORGON (1964). See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

Gorgon is slay. #Monsterdon

@floatybirb those hats are funny, can't deny them that! #monsterdon

My Bechdel-sense didn't go off at any point. Or is this wrong? #monsterdon

Love a Hammer Horror. Thanks @Taweret for hosting, @ryan for the stream, and all of you for being such witty commentators.

#Monsterdon 🐍 🗿

@nhgeek I am very stoned and it still dragged! #monsterdon

And that's the end of the budget. Wow. I dare that movie to make less sense. Still it's always fun to see Chris and Peter go at it. Thanks for the fun watch and thanks to @Taweret for hosting. Now I must leave as we have someone on their way to Gorgonize the garage. Whatever that means. #Monsterdon #TheGorgon

And the moral - Love gonna fuck you up.

#monsterdon

When a movie skips the end credits it's like YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO HOME BUT YOU CAN'T STAY HERE. #Monsterdon

So ends another #Monsterdon. Our thanks to @Taweret for hosting, and to all the posters and lurkers participating, thanks to you all as well. And remember #Monsterdoners: A lot of girlfriends doesn't make you a libertine.

Gor-gone! No credits, but really, was any deserved?

#monsterdon #TheGorgon

Film over. No credits. GTFO #monsterdon

Okay so this time I simply forgot to do #Monsterdon because I was eating all the cheese and bread.

As excuses go, I think that pretty solid.

Chekhov's mirror!

#Monsterdon

The winning Doctor Muttonchops goes to fight Madam Carrothair, but then she turns into the Gorgon and starts sprouting snakes from her head. Also her eyes turn all red and her dress is green now. She repels him with her gaze then turns to fight Inspector Nick, who she also turns to stone.

But while she's doing that Mustache Saruman sneaks up behind her with a sword and decapitates her, and her snake head turns back into her normal Gigantic Hair Head.

#monsterdon

YEAH FUCK HER UP CHRISTOPHER LEE

#monsterdon

The End

It certainly was

#monsterdon

Do you know how much arm strength and the sword heft and sharpness you need to cut through a spine? It's not trivial!

#Monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

🪨☠️ STONE COLD TRIVIA 🪨☠️

Barbara Shelley played Carla, the Gorgon-possessed character, and suggested to the producer that she should also play the Gorgon with a wig of _live snakes_. The idea was rejected.

After the producer saw how bad the SFX wig looked in the completed movie, he admitted to Shelley that she was correct. The five wires used to manipulate the snakes just didn't cut it.

Per Christopher Lee, "The only thing wrong with "The Gorgon" is the gorgon!"

#TheGorgon

Christopher Lee leaning over the balcony with the sword like "bitch, you thought"

#Monsterdon

@gnomon If I had that wig for Halloween I'd win some kind of prize for sure #monsterdon