Directed by:
Stuart GordonScreenplay:
Dennis PaoliCinematography:
Carlos SuárezComposer:
Carles CasesCast:
Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Macarena Gómez, Uxía Blanco, José Lifante, Alfredo Villa, Ferran Lahoz, Joan Minguell, Richard Stanley, Raquel Meroño (more)Plots(1)
A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend to the dilapidated fishing village of Imboca looking for help. As ight falls people start to disappear and things not quite human start appearring. Paul finds himself pursued by the entire town and discovers Imboca's dark secret whilst running for his life... the freakish half-human creatures that populate the town. They pray to Dagon, a monsterous God of the sea. All outsiders are sacrificed, the men are skinned alive and the women offered as unwilling brides to bear Dagon's unholy children. (Umbrella Entertainment)
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A good C-movie is better than a bad B-movie. Dagon has a lot to reproach, but I had some really good fun, I just loved the unsettling atmosphere of the cursed fishing village and the mutated folk. The special effects are awful, but the make-up is very good, so good and realistic, actually, that it was unpleasant at times, because I hate seeing any kind of human body anomalies. Gordon’s love for the genre can be seen miles away.
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Although the title refers to a mere six-page short story, this is more like an adaptation of “The Festival" and “The Shadow over Innsmouth", with added fragments from Lovecraft’s other works. You have to give it to Gordon that here and there he managed to evoke the true “Cthulhu feeling". But that’s where the problem lies. Here and there, but not all the time. Most of the footage is just dreadfully boring.
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Even after watching it for the second time, this movie couldn't captivate me and I simply noticed that there are quite well-executed effects, but I just don't see a good horror in "Dagon". I like the idea of a village where weird people live, but I already liked that in Lovecraft's works. Stuart Gordon simply couldn't dazzle me with this film like he did with his older pieces.
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