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Stuart GordonScenario:
Dennis PaoliCamera:
Carlos SuárezMuziek:
Carles CasesActeurs:
Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Macarena Gómez, Uxía Blanco, José Lifante, Alfredo Villa, Ferran Lahoz, Joan Minguell, Richard Stanley, Raquel Meroño (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Based on a short story by HP Lovecraft, the undisputed master of macabre... Paul and his girlfriend Barbara are celebrating the success of their new company on a yacht off the coast of Spain. When a sudden storm smashes their boat on a reef, Barbara and Paul swim to the nearest town for help. The decrepit fishing village of Imboca at first seems to be deserted, but unblinking eyes peer out from boarded-up houses. The strange inhabitants offer little help to the stranded couple. By nightfall, Barbara is missing and Paul finds himself pursued by the entire town... but a town of what? (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
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Even after watching it a second time, this film failed to captivate me. I noticed that there are some quite well-done effects, but I just don't see a good horror movie in H.P. Lovecraft's Dagon. I like the idea of a village inhabited by strange people, but I already liked that concept in Lovecraft's work. Stuart Gordon simply couldn't impress me with this film like he did with his earlier works.
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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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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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