Hell yea. If this movie is about gorgonism, you'd best be turning somebody to stone in the first 10 minutes. Good omen.

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Another Tums overdose victim. Will they ever learn? #monsterdon

Stone hands are apparently just as scary as the Moon?

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon

BRUNO

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I wonder how it feels to dress like a chess piece every day? #monsterdon

Is this an actual old style operating theatre?

I like the colored vials and seeming cooking supplies.

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This is a serious scientist. He has colored liquids in test tubes.

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Hella nice lab

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Bingo! Screams achieved.

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the moon isn't THAT scary

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Draw me like on of your stone girls

#thegorgon #monsterdon

oooof, 1960s Kitchen Sink Drama, "I'm going to 'ave your baby!"

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Several recognizable names in this production. Can't place them particularly but assume I'll recognize a few faces.

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This isn't about the painting.....

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Terence Fisher

Baseball player or Star War?

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Launching my #monsterdon thread for #TheGorgon, a movie in which I guess people get stoned. Or gorged. If that's a word.

Anyway, Monsterdon is a thing where we watch a monster movie every week and make fun of it. If that sounds cool, feel free to join us every week (or read along). If that is not your jam, then consider muting the hashtag to better enjoy your mastodon experience.

Anyway, let the Gorging commence!

reminder: #monsterdon -> gorgon. #mastodon -> gargron

Oh we got Christopher Lee AND Peter Cushing? I like this already! #monsterdon

Wait, this film is made of hammers?

#TheGorgon #monsterdon

#monsterdonalert

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GO GO GO!!

Intensely envious of all the doors in this movie. Some really nice ones.

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#TheGorgon
#rewind

@GramrgednAngel I definitely think I've seen it before. Maybe in one of the non-Dracula Hammer vampire movies? So many of these sets looked familiar from other Hammer flicks

#monsterdon #TheGorgon

@RobynGoodfellow That's the Martian locusts, right?

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@Lazarou @RobynGoodfellow love quatermass and the pit! #monsterdon

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Did anyone else think part of the set for the inn, specifically the garden with its pool, looked like the garden in "Rappacini's Daughter?" I can't unsee it.

It wasn't a standalone, it was part of "Twice-Told Tales."

@Lazarou @moira @YsengrinWolf someone stole the gorgonzolla?! #Monsterdon

Whatdidimiss?! Crashed so hard I couldn't move to slap myself awake.... It was the Amazon women, WASN'T IT?! #Monsterdon

@YsengrinWolf Yes, the lying cover-up town is the real monster in #TheGorgon Were they trying to preserve the tourist trade like in Jaws etc.? #Monsterdon

Very satisfying film! Thanks @Taweret and @Cherizilla
for setting us up with all the creepy atmosphere. #Monsterdon

Thank you to @Taweret /Monsterdon for a little bit of community and amusement among the current chaos and dread. Makes life more enjoyable. See you next week.

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@jsadow But, if the libertine Bohemian artist (I just like saying that) wasn't in the film, then we wouldn't have had a reason for the father to step in (and get Gorgonized), nor for the father's friend (?) to come to town, and thus, Christopher Lee would never have been involved and the film would have had a very different ending.

But who hung the artist? It was fairly clear he didn't do it himself.

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https://youtu.be/CjFzw8AxSBA?si=wO8XNuSkaFMZFHGU

#thegorgon #monsterdon

@RobynGoodfellow Paul Heitz with greenface at the end reminded me of Andy Serkis Gollum #Monsterdon #TheGorgon

@springdiesel They must be convenient when you have a lot of paperwork to transport #monsterdon

boingy boingy boingy

#monsterdon #TheGorgon

So this one I rated three stars and gave some reasons in my review https://letterboxd.com/anderson_petaq/film/the-gorgon/ #monsterdon

@RamenCatholic we thank you for your service

#monsterdon #TheGorgon

I missed the #invasionofthestarcreatures live but maybe I'll put it on and do a #MonsterdonReplay #monsterdon

https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/invasion-of-the-star-creatures

Watched this (or something a lot like this) on the "Creature Feature" on Saturday mornings after cartoons and thought that there *must* be a lot of grown-up stuff I'm missing because I'm a kid. No, there just wasn't more there. Enjoyed it anyway.

#Monsterdon ##TheGorgon

@FeloniousPunk Some are much worse! It's great!

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@RobynGoodfellow I bet it's like 80% that just end

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@ramsey Ah, well, all I meant is that I can't take credit (or blame) for the idea of making #Monsterdon seem high-brow, to whatever extent that may be happening 😂

Monsterdon is like "look at how many dummies died to a gaze atrack *they knew was coming*! what dummies!"

their gamemasters: 😏

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@log OMG yes

and they'd get distracted arguing with each other and forget about turning people to stone

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@SordidAmok

#monsterdon #TheGorgon

And, why/how did the Bohemian artist get hung at the start, rather than being turned to stone?

By the end of the movie it's obvious the town has been covering up all the Gorgonizing over the last few years.

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon1964

@apLundell @Taweret

She had some serious conjunctivitis.

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@ramsey 😂

I actually learned that word from other people here on the #Monsterdon feed

@apLundell

And yet, still smarter than most #Monsterdon movie characters.

Gorgon is slayed 😭 #Monsterdon

@Terencio @Zerofactorial honestly kinda thought they were gonna go there, it would've been a better ending

#monsterdon #TheGorgon

@log oooh the 90's Muppets would have had a great take on Medusa's story

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@Lazarou the only banting we got was from that one guy at the very beginning who tried to burn the house down and was like "oh so that's how it's gonna be" #monsterdon

So does he have to see a doctor for an erection lasting more than 4 centuries?
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with all the rubber snakes they could've just as well gone with vulcanization and made all the statues rubbery

#monsterdon #TheGorgon

@jonny if they had more Working Class representation you would have had more bants #monsterdon

alright, let's face it, anything with Christopher Lee in it is worth my time, but there could have been some more """gorgonization""" in that one and i wouldn't have complained. good job everybody, night~ #monsterdon

https://youtu.be/M8zKyNHsn-A?si=o2HzMQejh0My6CIa

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i like when she said IT'S GORGON TIME and gorgonized over everyone #monsterdon

And Boom! It’s over! Not as abrupt as one might like, but still a rapid wrap up!
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You knew it and you looked all the same - that’s a well deserved gorgonification #monsterdon

My God this film was fun. #TheGorgon #Monsterdon

The moral of the story is that even if your place is stuck with a goofy name like Castle Borski you can still have creepy goings-on inside if you really want #monsterdon

Thanks @Taweret, for hosting, and @Cherizilla, for organzing the Bingo. I think I got only 3 squares on my card. 😭

Overall, another good addition to and edition of #Monsterdon!

In that sad phase of Monsterdon where the stream is like “Ok, good work everybody” but I’ve still got 6 minutes left because of all the Tubi ads. #Monsterdon

@Cherizilla Very kinda return-to-baseline of the non-kaiju movies in our wheelhouse. Which is kind of mixing metaphors but fukkit I do what I want xD

#monsterdon #TheGorgon

Does the removal of the head, and retracting of the snakes reverse the stone-conversion effect on the victims?

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No #MonsterdonBingo for me this week, but fun as always to play!

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What?

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Honestly not a terrible concept for a film, but they spent like half of it trying to emulate the Investigations And Paperwork section of Dracula

WHICH IS LIKE THE LEAST INTERESTING PART OF DRACULA

-_-; #Monsterdon

No one left but swashbuckling literature professor Christopher Lee, choppin' necks and havin' sex

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Does it hurt the Gorgon when people get hurt looking at them?

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Well. I, for one, should’ve been more stoned

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'Poorly animated!—why did they have to be poorly animated!?'

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Honestly tho' that wasn't bad for a movie of its era. I mean, gods know it wasn't _good_, but

#monsterdon #TheGorgon

Okay, it was an English film that explains the weird cinematography.

#Monsterdon #TheGorgon1965

Overall, the acting was great, and the dialogue and general story were decent, but that ending gets zero stars.

Hammer Films gonna be Hammer Films.

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OH my #Monsterdon What an ending...

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"She's free, now..."

Um, okay. In certain manner of speaking...

that movie had a lot of intrigue but terrible pacing lol

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What a good time. Now get out, the next showing is in 5 minutes, out out!!
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"she's free now, Paul... you're fucked, but she's free." #monsterdon

thanks all!

Everyone knows that the head of the gorgon can still turn you to stone so I am definitely writing a letter to the director.

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And - it just stops. In fine #monsterdon fashion

Another #Monsterdon has come to an end and in true Monsterdon fashion the end was abrupt. As always thanks to our host for tonight @Taweret.

If you missed-out on tonight's fun you can join us next week by following the hashtag #MonsterdonAlert and voting on the next feature! Sometime tomorrow @Taweret will post a poll to pick the next movie using this hashtag.

Just vote - even if this would be your first time. Then next Sunday watch with us.

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Nice stop-motion work there.

and now Chris Lee is free too, of his annoying crush on some dumb boy who wasn't good enough for him anyway. happy ending for all! #monsterdon

hey 2/3 ain't bad

honestly she ate a lot of monster hunters in this movie

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You know what, at least they didn't make her credit shot an exploding headshot from robot Mall.

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And that's a wrap! Thanks everyone and @Taweret for a great #monsterdon -- see you next week!

Moral of the story: don't fall in love with amnesiacs #Monsterdon

They tear open her belly to find her unborn son, whom they name Mason

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Stop... Hammertime!

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Lwaxana is looking a little rough #monsterdon #gorgon

so the mirror was a red herring....? #monsterdon

I'm SHOCKED! Carla was the Medusa?!?!? never saw that coming.... #monsterdon

Okay the Gorgon skin peeling back off her head was like the best part of the film. #Monsterdon

see, she wasn't ugly, she just had too much makeup on. #monsterdon

holy shit it was the beautiful love interest all along! moral of the story, do not trust women! check! #monsterdon

I still want to know why the gorgon came to the castle.

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