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First off, at least some of the hype was true: this is the most overtly Lovecraftian film ever made. It nails HPL’s obsessions one after another. You got your fear and loathing of the sea and ocean life, foreigners and religion, miscegenation and sexuality, alien cultures and all things organic, including (ulp) ourselves. It even does a decent job of conveying some of the weird awe Lovecraft could conjure up when dealing with cosmically alien plot elements.
The leading man will likely be seen as a liability by many of the film’s viewers, but that is because he is the most Lovecraftian protagonist ever put on screen; he’s weak, pale, neurotic and almost completely overwhelmed. The acting is uniformly solid. If you’ve seen the director’s RE-ANIMATOR you have some idea of what Stuart Gordon can do, but where the earlier film is played like some outrageous cartoon, DAGON is played almost completely straight.
I feel the need to mention a couple of caveats. This is a B-movie. Was a time (not long ago) that I wouldn’t feel the need to say anything about this, but here in the age of the blockbuster genre film with “seamless special effects” I guess some might feel cheated by anything less than an Industrial Light & Magic fireworks show. This isn’t it. The film has atmosphere and suspense to burn, and the make up is excellent, but the CGI effects look just like CGI effects.
Also, although there really isn’t that much violence in the film, when it does occur it is pretty hard to take. There is one scene that is as grisly as anything I’ve seen in a movie, bad enough that I imagine it might make a good number of viewers actually turn it off. Too bad, really. The scene runs the risk of eclipsing the rest of the film and being the only thing people remember about it.
Although much has been made of how the story is not a direct adaptation of any of HPL’s works, this is simply not true. DAGON is ‘Shadow Over Innsmouth’. Expanded, relocated and updated, but it’s ‘Innsmouth’ in every important detail and plot point. Of course it’s more lurid and in-your-face than HPL’s stories ever were and makes absolutely explicit what he would merely suggest. But if you can accept that I think you’ll find this a pretty gripping film.
I say Check It Out. It’s not perfect, but it’s an honest attempt to bring HPL’s vision to life on screen.
What do you get when you mesh unblinking eyes, priests with webbed fingers and innkeepers with gilled throats, fishermen with a strange affinity for covering their faces, plenty of gold from the depths of the sea to go with the atypical “bounty from the deep,” a few faces getting peeled off to teach someone a lesson, a bit of octopi legging to replace those pesky bipedal ones, and one ancient tentacled God? No, it isn’t your local barnyard sock-hop taking place at some yokel fairground, its Stuart Gordon’s latest creation, the Lovecraft inspired Dagon!
Unlike many of Gordon’s earlier, more goofy approaches to the horrific, this Shadows Over Innsmouth/Dagon recount wore a dark overcoat that shrouded almost all of the production. The tale begins with Paul (Ezra Godden) and his girlfriend Barbara, accompanied by two friends, as they toast the success of their new company off the coast of Spain. Paul finds himself plagued by dreams of the foulest sort, ones dealing with an underwater monument bearing a strange insignia and a half-fish/half-humanoid woman, the type that end with him awakening (once again) in a pool of sweat and screams. Soon after our introduction, a storm, if you can call the suddenly conceived, quickly overwhelming beast darkening the sky and tossing their boat around like a bath toy “a storm,” impales their boat upon a black reef that any Lovecraft fan will well appreciate. This, in turn, injures one of the boat’s occupants and forces them to seek help in a decrepit fishing town called Imboca. As they approach the town in their cheaply construed rubber lifeboat their woes begin, with the sound of gunfire coming from the ship and something brushing against their raft and knocking a hole in it. Is this sign of something to come? Well, in a world where the beasts run rampant in the water, you bet it is. The two quickly find themselves in a town that first seems deserted, a place where the churches read “Esoterica Orde De Dagon” and the occupants, once they are finally found, seem to grow odder and odder by the minute. All these things come together and finally lead them toward secrets that no Bostonian before them ever really wanted to learn, the truth behind the worshippers of Dagon.
Touting nice effects in the monster category, some decent acting (Godden reminding me a lot of Jeffrey Combs, a great thing in my book), pieces of comedy to go with the more horrific, Deep One inspired portions of the movie, and some nice looking DVD quality, this is something to pick up and watch a few time. I highly recommend it for those who’ve always wanted augmentation by making deals with the oddities of underwater worship or for those simply wanting to stroll the beaches of human suffering as casual passerbys. It’ll give you more reasons than the mere shark to stay away from the ocean.
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