{"id":2369,"date":"2025-02-16T21:27:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T05:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2025-02-16T21:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T05:27:35","slug":"monsterdon-movie-adventures-the-gorgon-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/16\/monsterdon-movie-adventures-the-gorgon-1964\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsterdon Movie Adventures: The Gorgon (1964)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-gorgon.png\" alt=\"Peter Cushing's eyes in The Gorgon.\" class=\"wp-image-2370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-gorgon.png 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-gorgon-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-gorgon-768x96.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;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&#8217;t participate that often, but after the heaviness of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/16\/movie-pass-adventures-no-other-land\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2362\">No Other Land<\/a> , the Hammer Films movie The Gorgon was exactly what I needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This movie&#8217;s poster is a classic example of &#8220;You&#8217;ll get it if you see the reference poster.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-gorgon-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for The Gorgon copying the look of the poster for Rocky. Get it? Rocky? Man, I sure am clever.\" class=\"wp-image-2372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-gorgon-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-gorgon-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-gorgon-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/the-gorgon-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early example of a stoner movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}