What is Scream of Fear/The Gorgon about?

SCREAM OF FEAR, 1961, Sony Repertory, 81 min. Director Seth Holt’s first Hammer Studios effort tracks wheelchair-bound Penny, who returns to her family’s French Riviera estate after her mother’s untimely death. Handsome chauffeur Bob and sinister Dr. Gerrard enter the mix, and someone seems bent on driving Penny over the edge into madness or, worse, death! THE GORGON, 1964, Sony Repertory, 83 min. One of director Terence Fisher’s most eerie and underrated masterworks focuses on a German village haunted by the monster Megara. Local doctor Peter Cushing is engineering a cover-up to protect someone (perhaps his beautiful assistant, Barbara Shelley?). Returning Richard Pasco, whose brother and father were petrified to death, wants to get to the bottom of the mystery, but gets sidetracked when he falls for Shelley. Soon, desperate Pasco sends for his prickly, sarcastic mentor, who sets out to track down the monster.

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What is Scream of Fear/The Gorgon about?: SCREAM OF FEAR, 1961, Sony Repertory, 81 min. Director Seth Holt’s first Hammer Studios effort tracks wheelchair-bound Penny, who returns to her family’s French Riviera estate after her mother’s untimely death. Handsome chauffeur Bob and sinister Dr. Gerrard enter the mix, and someone seems bent on driving Penny over the edge into madness or, worse, death!
THE GORGON, 1964, Sony Repertory, 83 min. One of director Terence Fisher’s most eerie and underrated masterworks focuses on a German village haunted by the monster Megara. Local doctor Peter Cushing is engineering a cover-up to protect someone (perhaps his beautiful assistant, Barbara Shelley?). Returning Richard Pasco, whose brother and father were petrified to death, wants to get to the bottom of the mystery, but gets sidetracked when he falls for Shelley. Soon, desperate Pasco sends for his prickly, sarcastic mentor, who sets out to track down the monster.