Review of Dagon (2001) by Esa E — 27 May 2010
Probably the best HPL inspired movie to date (barring the fantastic Re-Animator & The Beyond), it takes The Shadow Over Innsmouth as a starting point, translocates it to Spain, and plonks Jeffrey-Combs-a-like Ezra Godden in the middle of a cursed fishing village.
Everything you could want from an HPL adaptation is here: moist dripping decay, malformed inbred villagers, genetic destiny, crazy old men talking in dialects you can't quite understand. It's all good.
And there are some great sequences, such as the warehouse of skins, the flooded town, the thing in the pit, and the descent to R'lyeh. Fantastic stuff.
This review of Dagon (2001) was written by Esa E on 27 May 2010.
Dagon has generally received mixed reviews.
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