Hammer turned to Greek mythology for this one with the horror coming from Megaera , a snake headed woman who literally petrifies anyone who looks at her face. Despite a promising beginning and excellent cast, this is an unsatisfactory picture because it's so obvious who the monster's alter ego is and the special effects inevitably fail to make her sufficiently horrific.
Dr Namaroff ( Peter Cushing ) is the resident doctor at an asylum in the German town of Vandorf where he connives with the local police inspector Kanof ( Patrick Troughton ) to conceal the real truth behind a regular series of murders. When a young girl Sascha is killed and her boyfriend commits suicide the latter's father and then brother Paul ( Richard Pasco ) seek to uncover the truth . Paul's friend Prof Meister ( Christopher Lee ) thinks he knows the answer.
Barbara Shelley ( as Carla Hoffman )
Sex : A relationship with Namaroff is suggested.
Death : Beheaded by Meister
Barbara is very buttoned-up in this one.
Toni Gilpin ( as Sascha Cass )
Sex : Sascha poses topless for her boyfriend ( back view only ) and then reveals she is pregnant
Death : Turned to stone after running into the Gorgon
Toni was originally Antonia McGettigan from Glasgow. She was active in film and TV in the sixties but retired at the end of the decade. She died in October last year aged 81.
Sally Nesbitt ( as Sister )
Sex : No
Death : Survives
Sally's role here is uncredited but she went on to be a successful TV and occasionally film actress into the mid-nineties. She was born Sally Hunt in India, her father being Sir John Hunt , leader of the 1953 Everest expedition. She is now 78.
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