Blogcritics: Comments on Dagon - best Lovecraft adaptation yet?

Comment by SnobNeurotico

Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:40:21 EDT

I didn't like Dagon at all, it's really cheesy, just like all the other films produced by the "Fantastic Factory" with the exception of Darkness. Also, I dont think that there are any good Lovecraft adaptations... They tend to be gory, and avoid any type of psychological terror. I'm from Galicia, the part of spain where the movie was shot, and I've visited the small town where the movie was shot, whose real name is Combarro. The name of the town in the film (Imboca) is a direct translation of Innsmouth to Spanish (Mouth = Boca)

Comment by jadester

Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:57:10 EDT

cool. There *was* alot of running around, but in the story about half of it is taken up by the character trying to escape. I agree more could have been done, but at least they resisted the temptation to make it more of a trashy horror. Also by sheer coincidence another blogger here at blogcritics posted a review of dagon shortly before mine (it wasnt there when i visited the site to begin with, i went and wrote mine, then lo and behold another review had turned up)

Comment by Maura

Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:27:30 EDT

Hi Jon, I also liked Dagon, and thought it was one of the better Lovecraft adaptations. Though, I do think that there was too much running around in the middle of the film, and not enough squishy horror - though that was made up towards the end. It's certainly a must-see for horror and Lovecraft aficionados. I posted a review of this, and a couple of other films, on my blog late last year: http://babblogue.com/blog/archives/00001189.html