- Actors: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño, Macarena Gómez, Brendan Price
- Directors: Stuart Gordon
- Format: PAL
- Language English, Galician, Spanish
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
- Classification: 18
- DVD Release Date: 7 Oct 2002
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00006JI47
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 57,865 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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With Dagon, director Stuart (Re-Animator) Gordon returns once more to author HP Lovecraft, this time for an adaptation of the novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth, with the setting switched from the coast of New England to the creepy Spanish fishing village of Inboca. After a sudden storm and a yacht-wreck, a bespectacled and bewildered Paul Marsh (Ezra Gooden) finds himself stranded in the literally fishy town, which has thrown over Catholicism to devote itself to the worship of the Philistine sea-god Dagon. His influence means that the inhabitants are transforming into pop-eyed, tentacled and gilled creatures.
Though Gooden perhaps strikes too strident a note to convince as an everyday guy, director Gordon orchestrates the rising terrors well. These range from a supremely damp and uncomfortable hotel room through an impressive flashback about the rise of the Esoteric Order of Dagon to some sinister business with a mad-eyed mermaid (Macarena Gomez), human sacrifice and nasty surprises all round. Unfortunately, Gordon still can't quite distinguish between acceptably gruesome and downright nasty, especially when it comes to disposing of secondary female characters. On the plus side, Dagon boasts an excellent score, which even tries to set to music some of Lovecraft's invented language ("Ia Ia Cthulhu fh'tagn"). --Kim Newman
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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For all of you Lovecraft fans, this is Your movie. The maker of "Re-Animator comes" back and tackles the Lovecraftian mythos with brilliance. Paul marsh, his wife and a couple of friends are sailing off the coast of Spain. When an eerie storm wrecks their boat, they hear in the distance a strange chant coming from the village. After one gets hurt, they decide to try and get help from the little village of Imboca which, apparently seems deserted except for a few very odd and seemingly deformed villagers. Very rapidly, Paul is seperated from everybody and slowly descends into the horror of Imboca's secret... This is an adaptation of "Shadow over Insmouth" and it's Very creepy, just the way the lovecraftian stories were supposed to be. A brilliant horror movie with chills guaranteed. Not to be watched alone... BEST ADAPTATION OF A LOVECRAFT MOVIE EVER, BETTER THAN "IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS"!!! First movie ever with the infamous chant : "Ia! Ia! Chtulhu Ftagn!". And the score is brilliant !
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I am by no means an expert at the horror genre, unlike many of my fellow reviewers. DAGON starts with the usual elements of a "couple in danger" horror film in which several outsiders go into unknown territory and get picked off by the locals. It is important that the outsiders are daft as a brush and include some screamers. In this case the "hero" is an excellent example of the American abroad; unable to speak the language, given to making threats and complaints despite it being obvious to us that he's on a hiding to nothing. We have been enjoying these lambs to the slaughter since Brad and Janet first met Rocky Horror. In this case the horror is very credibly sketched in true Lovecraftian style; the end being especially creepy (and yes there had been a clue if I had but thought on it). The sets were marvellously damp, the piscine deformities well sketched and the air of constant flight well handled. The CGI might not have been totally successful with everyone but it was not bad either.
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
With The Shadow Over Innsmouth being very possibly my favourite Lovecraft short story, I must say that I was a little apprehensive before watching this film. The film does indeed stick fairly close to the original short story (not the actually the short entitled 'Dagon'), and Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) shows his love for make-up and sickening gore once again. Unfortunetly, as too often these days, Stuart has opted for CGI in places within the film which does taken the edge off the 'nasty' aspect of the movie. But at the end of the day I came away impressed and happy that the film had done the short story justice. Now that it's at budget price, I highly recommend a purchase!
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a commercial version, but still ...
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Published 22 months ago by Mr. Russell C. Witheyman
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Published 24 months ago by Don Duncan
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Published on 2 May 2010 by Mr. T. Gettins
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