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DVD ~ Ezra Godden
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  • Actors: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño, Macarena Gómez, Brendan Price
  • Directors: Stuart Gordon
  • Producers: Brian Yuzna, Carlos Fernández, Julio Fernández
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language English, Galician, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Lions Gate
  • DVD Release Date: 23 Jul 2002
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000067J0M
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 26,858 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding attempt at Lovercraft's dark short story., 3 Jun 2004
By Chris Hall "Dreadlocksmile" (Cardiff, Wales) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dagon [DVD] [2001] (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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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars It has it moments.......!, 7 May 2004
By "marcusmuck" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dagon [DVD] [2001] (DVD)
I bought this cheaply ages ago but I've only just forced myself to watch it.

I'm glad I did as it seems the most watchable of all the various rip-offs & adaptations I've seen over the years.

I felt an overwhelming sense of familiarity- with the story, the acting, plot and special effects. Nothing revolutionary but if you like this sort of thing that's great. If not then.......

It starts well, I felt the Spanish fishing village location was a good choice- very atmospheric. I liked the 'foreign' feel of a non Anglo-American production (almost exotic!). The whole hotel sequence was special: almost a farce but very enjoyable (can you imagine checking in there for your holidays!?).

I have to admit that it did suffer from the expedient need to keep the plot moving- as someone else pointed out it becomes "a boring runaround" at times.

There are some excruciatingly awful bits too (e.g: the tramp sequence is almost amusing for it's incomprehensibility. I had to guess what he was saying- but hey! that's realism for you: a Spanish drunk speaking English would sound like gibberish!).

All this is part of the fun though- when the credits finished I wanted to watch it again!

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Real Chtulhu Mythos on screen, 18 Nov 2002
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This review is from: Dagon [DVD] [2001] (DVD)
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 !
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4.0 out of 5 stars Lovecraft would be proud
As straight to DVD fair, this movie isnt bad at all. Stuart Gordon has done a good job here as he did with Reanimator, Castle Freak, From Beyond capturing the timeless terror... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Peter J. Hodgson

5.0 out of 5 stars Dagon fishing
Howard(Ezra Godden)is on board a boat with his girlfriend Barbera and his friends Howard and Vicky, when they encounter a terrible storm, and the boat hits some rocks. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. Jonathon T. Beckett

5.0 out of 5 stars Survival Horror Movie Style
I am a big fan of horror video games and I always look for what I enjoy in that genre in the movies I buy. Read more
Published 13 months ago by A. Joseph

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't put this one back into the water.
DAGON wasn't going to be a hard sell for me. Being a BIG fan of both director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuznas' previous work, the prospect of another H.P. Read more
Published 18 months ago by M. S. Skidmore

4.0 out of 5 stars A BREATH OF FRESH AIR FOR HORROR FANS

Traveling off the coast of Spain, Paul Marsh (Ezra Godden) and girlfriend Barbara (Raquel Meroño) are with friends Howard (Brendan Price) and Vicki (Birgit Bofarull) on... Read more
Published 20 months ago by stuart

2.0 out of 5 stars Just another horror flik
This film has nothing to do with H.P.Lovecraft. Despite taking plenty of the vocabulary from his lexicon, it totally failed to take any of the atmosphere. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Cruncher

2.0 out of 5 stars This is *not* Shadow over Innsmouth
Being based on "Dagon" and "Shadow over Innsmouth" had me expecting a mind blasting film in which the protagonist's sanity is tested to his limit but he keeps going to defeat a... Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2007 by Matt Headhanger

4.0 out of 5 stars H.P. Lovecraft meets The Wicker Man on a damp and stormy night
Stuart Gordon's Dagon is a surprisingly excellent bit of Lovecraftian horror, although it feels at times like the offspring of one of Corman's Poe adaptations via a very wet... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2006 by Trevor Willsmer

2.0 out of 5 stars There is something fishy about Dagon
Two couples are out on yachting. They hear some sort of singing or chanting from the local village of Imboca. A freak storm appears and tosses the yacht on the rocks. Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2006 by bernie

4.0 out of 5 stars A Lovecraft film faithful to the spirit of his writings
"Dagon" is not as bad as you think that it is for most of the first two-thirds of the movie, but you do not really know that until you get near the end of the film at which point... Read more
Published on 27 May 2004 by Lawrance M. Bernabo

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