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 Dagon (DVD)
 Dagon (DVD) ... Prism Leisure Corporation / Features of the DVD: PAL / 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 NewmanNewest Review: ... most part, all excellent. These qualities contribute to the dark, tense atmosphere achieved in the film. Innsmouth in the ... more ... original text is described as "a city of stark desolation". Dagon recreates this brilliantly; the dark, dank buildings reflect Lovecraft's words:
...black, gaping windows of deserted hovels, many of which leaned at perilous and incredible angles through the sinking of part of the foundations.
Amongst these buildings the film shows the "infrequent shambling forms in the dismal streets and unpaved lanes"
The inhabitants of the town are wonderfully recreated for the screen, linking closely with Lovecr...more |
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Dagon (DVD): A COMPARISON WITH THE SOURCE MATERIAL (982 words)
by - written on 09/08/08 (Very useful, 41 readings)
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A COMPARISON WITH THE BOOK FOR HP LOVECRAFT ENTHUSIASTS Dagon (2001) is director Stuart Gordon's most recent, and in my opinion, most faithful Lovecraft adaptation. It is based on the short story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth". Dagon, as seems to be the norm with Lovecraft adaptations, is set in the time that it was made - the turn of the twenty first century. This is really only a factor for the opening sequence at sea, with the modern yacht, laptop computer etc. The majority of the films action takes place in Innsmouth where time is not really relevant, and to all intents and purposes it could just as easily be the 1920s; the decade in ... Read the complete review
Halloween movie - I'a! I'a! Cthulhu fhtagn! (836 words)
by - written on 01/11/06 (Very useful, 180 readings)
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Introduction: ---------------- Successful American businessman Paul Marsh (Ezra Godden) and his Spanish girlfriend Barbara (Raquel Meroņo) are celebrating their latest venture with friends aboard their boat moored off the coast of Spain. There is a fishing village nearby hugging the shore called Imboca from which chanting can be heard, presumably praying of some sort from the church dominating much of the town. With supernatural quickness, a storm rolls in and their vessel is torn open on the coral, injuring one of their friends. With the squall subsiding, Paul and Barbara head for the shore in an inflatable raft to get help. Unfortunately, not ... Read the complete review
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