“Dagon” is mostly based on another of Lovecraft’s short stories, being about 65% “The Shadow Over Innsmouth.” The remainder is 5% “Dagon” and 30% miscellaneous ideas (mostly mutant fish person incest).
Review Snippet:
Personally, I’d have taken one look at the locals and decided they were either inbreds, fish mutants, or both (inbred fish mutants). In addition to being spooky in the conversation department, the people of Imboca have pale, clammy-looking skin, bizarre webbing between their fingers, and they never blink. Weirdo freakos, man. Them not blinking is a rather nice touch, even if it looks like the effect was accomplished by the actors wearing uncomfortable contact inserts. The villagers also tend to wander around with rusty knives and farming implements. The only place I have ever been that is scarier than Imboca is West Virginia.
Ah, West Virginia, where the people outnumber the teeth.
Lesson Learned:
Fish got nards.
Badmovies.org is a website to the detriment of good film.
#1 by KeithA on March 1st, 2011
I like this movie more and more every time I watch it
#2 by Bryan on March 2nd, 2011
I’m with Keith, great film. Freaky townfold, squidgirl, what’s not to love. Ah, calamari, yummy!
#3 by Bryan on March 2nd, 2011
TownFOLK, dang it! Eesh.
#4 by Ken on March 2nd, 2011
“Gums.” Really. This was back in the 1970s, after Jaws. Not that I’ve ever seen it – I was in my early teens – but I remember the newspaper ad. The poster ripped off the Jaws poster too, with the mermaid’s head rising, mouth open…
Doesn’t seem to be listed in the IMDB, which I suppose isn’t surprising, and I’m not going to be the one to do the web search.
#5 by Elizabeth the Ferret on March 4th, 2011
Good review. Reading it gave me a wicked craving for calamari. Luckily, I know a place that makes really good calamari. Yum.