60s-70s? movie, inhuman Gorgon(?) SLOWLY turns ppl to stone(?)

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First off, I don't think this is Clash of the Titans. I'm watching it now. I think this one was even older?



I recall a field of people who were slowly in the process of turning to stone. Some of them were 99% stone and couldn't talk or barely budge, some were early in the process and could still talk and begged for help. This part was slightly traumatizing for me.



The gorgon/medusa was not at all human-looking. It appeared to be more like a big squid or octopus, with a single eye in the middle. At the end, the hero (I'm guessing it was Perseus) manages to stab it in the eye and I remember the eye bleeding or seeping out of its eye socket slightly.


I've spent years off and on trying to figure this out on google with no luck.



Of course I find it immediately after asking. Not sure what search terms changed, but there you have it. The movie was Perseus Against the Monsters (1963).