I remember his last film would have been an Edgar Allan Poe biopic starring Jeffrey Combs. He tried to crowdfund the film on Kickstarter, and I backed it, but it didn't meet it's goal. It still boggles my mind how the horror community didn't go all in on that and make it happen.
Best Lovecraft movie. Saw it many times! You can really see that the director knows Lovecraft and Innsmouth. He may even be some kind of fan of the source material. All actors are great in this... except maybe the drowning couple and the protagonist. But the high priestess is outstanding!
I've been looking for this this movie because of this video. The blu-ray came in last month, but I didn't get a chance to watch it until about 2 weeks ago. It is the best direct Lovecraft adaptation I have ever watched. I think the Spanish language part of it made it even more alien for me, a native English speaker who took 3 years of French and zero of Spanish. Everything about the movie was played completely straight. There was none of the camp that normally suffuses Stuart Gordon's movies. The practical effects were a little unconvincing in places but the fact that they hid so much and let your brain fill in the gaps made up for it. The big monster reveal at the end, while brief, was, for their budget, very impressive. I felt every moment of this movie. The fear, the unknowing, the gnawing tickle at the back of your mind that you're missing something. It was such a fantastic telling of the Shadow Over Innsmouth. The music was beautiful, the atmosphere was perfect. I felt Uxia's longing and Paul's righteous revulsion and eventual acceptance of the inevitable. I have no idea how I missed this movie for so longer . For anybody who hasn't seen this who is a fan of Lovecraft, please watch it. Please buy a copy. Apparently it was critically and commercially panned when it was initially released. Everybody hated it. Even people who were fans of this type of movie hated it. According to the interviews included on the blu-ray, nobody wanted a movie about fish people. Well I do. And this is it. And it's awesome.
i remember seeing this with a friend in 06 and we were both blown away by the atmosphere. i read a translated version of dagon and he played dark corners of the earth. i still enjoy it to this day, especially the haunting theme song.
Imagine that I watched it when I was 6yrs or so, then I remembered it but don't know the name of the movie but with some heavy search....i reunited with one of my childhood masterpieces
Didn't Gordon also do a Lovecraft adaptation for Masters of Horror? I think it was Dreams in the Witch House. That would have been after this movie, right? No way this was his last Lovecraft story.
I love Dagon and its twisted atmosphere. I believe Stuart Gordon returned to adapt H.P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House for Masters of Horror series.
Lovecraft is basically unfilmable. Much like Stephen King, the effectiveness of his work relies so much on the reader's own imagination that any attempt at concrete representation inevitably disappoints with its inherent mundanity.
I disagree because we've seen both of them done right when the right people are involved. Frank Darabont has managed to capture the spirit of several Stephen King stories and often, what little changes he makes are usually improvements on the source material. Lovecraft has had several excellent direct adaptations (Color Out of Space) and inspired works (Underwater, In The Mouth of Madness).
Damn! You stated precisely what I've thought for the past 30 yrs about why S. King movies (most, not all) aren't really any good when transferred to the big-screen. Well said. 👍🏻😊
This movie had me like😶 when I first watched it...I always remember how sincere the "Queen" seemed in her love amidst all of the Dagon-infused batshyte crazy destruction of reality she was a part of😄
Actually, Stuart Gordon's last Lovecraft adaptation was DREAMS IN THE WITCH-HOUSE, an episode of Mick Garris' MASTERS OF HORROR series and honestly, it's the best made episode of that series (and also stars the lead from DAGON)
I wouldn't say it's better than "Cigarette Burns", "Pelts", or "Sick Girl" but it's certainly one of the best... That whole show is great and only a couple of episodes were weak.
It certainly is one of the best of that series and there were many great episodes. His Edgar Allan Poe episode in season 2 was also great and Gordon was supposed to do a feature-length Poe biopic starring Jeffrey Combs. Gordon tried to crowdfund it on Kickstarter, and I backed it, but it didn't meet it's funding goal. To this day, it still boggles my mind how the horror community didn't rally around that campaign and make it happen. What a wasted opportunity.
Actually, Gordon's last Lovecraft adaptation was "Dreams in the Witch-House" (2005), the episode of Masters of Horror that starred Ezra Godden from Dagon.
I love Dagon, the atmosphere tone and set design are all amazing. I don't think the late great Stuart Gordon ever made a bad film, he was a true icon of horror. Very nice presentation.
I remember not liking the movie much in the 90s, but was always struck by Macarena Gomez. So beautiful and alluring, I was thinking to myself "well, maybe tentacles aren't so bad after all."
When the MC is running from room to room in the hotel, that is PERFECTLY realized from the book. Tense stuff. I have the DVD too. It's the best Lovecraft movie. It's in a modern era, but it feels right. (Okay, maybe that black and white "The Call of Cthulhu" is more exact. Tough call.)
Uxia and the Succubus of 2016 Siren movie, monsters waifus. 🥰 And ending is similar, like "The shape of water". The monster instead of getting killed, gets the happy ending. Movies that explore that, are rare.
I love this movie. Yes it's low budget, and yes (at least in the states) about the only place you could see it was on the Sci-Fi Channel, but this is truly a haunting film that stays with you. I went out and bought a VHS copy shortly after I first saw it (yes I'm that old). I'm so happy to see this film finally starting to get some love over the last 3-4 years. If you don't own it yet (and you still like physical media), check out the Vestron Video Blu-ray released last year. It really did right by this movie.
I was horrified by this film when I first saw it. All I could remember after leaving the theater was that it was a film where people were turned into fish and I did not want to see it again. As I grew older I guess I had chances to see this, but I allowed it to fade from my memory--except that I knew I was scared of it--then one day, I started thinking about it, and sought it out. Now it is a film I watch at least every Holloween.
This movie confused the hell out of me. I had read Dagon, not long before the movie came out and this wasn't it. It wasn't until I read The Shadow over Innsmouth, that all became clear. I'm guessing they wanted to make Innsmouth, but couldn't get the rights, so they just slapped the "Dagon" title on it. Anyway, loved the movie and still own it on VHS.
This wasn't Gordon's last Lovecraft adaptation. I have no idea what 'obvious low budget' means. You really should elaborate. The tone is akin to BOTH his previous Lovecraft adaptations, to a T. Darkly humorous and absurd(it's about fucking fish people) but still a bit intense and dangerous. Goddard embodies that perfectly(which I would assume is why Gordon hired him to be the lead in his next Lovecraft adaptation.) Finally, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids WAS Gordon's. NOT Disney's. He left the project as director because he didn't want to work with a bunch of suits breathing down his neck. He valued the independence of independent filmmaking brought him, NOT low budget filmmaking, independent. There's a difference. He didn't make movies like Things or Birdemic. He was a real creator.
I love this movie. Has that typical Gordon/Yuzna black humour as well. I mean, an octopus man shoving a guy's head down a toilet while his son shouts in Spanish... LOL! So bizarre. Also: See if you can spot Richard Stanley loping around as one of the fish-men. The hat might be telling.
I saw this one about three months ago and even though it had some choppy cgi i thought this was was damn good fun. I also thought it had like a video game like feeling to it. Anyone else?
Out of the love craft films to exist in movie this one is actully my favorite the actors were perfect and i find dagon to be a super interesting lovecraft god. i need to buy this on dvd lol.
A Yuzna/Gordon tribute to Spanish FANTATERROR mixed with Lovecraft mithology. This movie is the final film role for legendary actor Paco Rabal and the first film role for amazing actress Macarena Gómez. With [REC] and Amenabar's Thesis, the best 3 Spanish horror films for the last 25 years. Maybe the best Spanish horror films of all time are Chicho Ibañez Serrador's Who Can Kill a Child, Eugenio Martín's Horror Express, Bigas Luna's Anguish and Alex de la Iglesia's The Day of the Beast, but this is another story.
I just heard about this movie/watched it for the 1st time about a month ago(really liked it). But man, did the creators of RE4 rip the ever-loving shit off of this movie!!!
i really like this movie, and its true, its a b movie. but up to this point i feel it captures the lovecraft's tone of the book perfectly (even though its not a strictly faithful adaptation). and another one that manages to do that is one of my favorite video games, call of cthulu: dark corners of the earth. such an atmosphere!!!
Great movie, it's actually fairly close to "The shadow over innsmouth." it's got all the beats from the Lovecraft classic story. I highly recommend "The Ressurected" as well directed by Dan O' Bannon that's a fairly decent adapt of Lovecrafts other story "The case of Charles dexter ward."
This movie is actually so enjoyable to watch, and it had the perfect amount of cheesy. I was kind of expecting a let down, but I thought it had good acting (imo) and in particular I find myself as one of the odd ones out who enjoyed Ezra's performance quite a bit and it all looked fairly intentional to me, and it reminded me of a Lynch film. Also there's great special effects, and the plot stays really unpredictable. It has its rough edge like the terrible cgi (but I'll say, still serviceable) and some special effects blunders here and there. But overall I loved it, it got me tense, and like any hp lovecraft story, had me pondering big things at the end. Highly recommend
I've never seen ANY Lovecraft story successfully adapted to the "big-screen" - THIS ONE - is the closest one they got and the best they made. It's simply impossible to make a "movie" on a Lovecraft novel, because you'd have to invent a plot "ad-hoc". BY THE WAY! This movie may have been called "Dagon" but it's not based on Lovecraft's "Dagon" novel (that remained unfinished as far as I remember), but tells another tale - the one from "The Shadow Over Innsmouth". Lovecraft books and novels have no deep plot whatsoever - they are about something else, in contrast to Stephen King which - basically! - is all about a good story. There's DOZEN'S (if not more) King's novels & books turned into movies, because the script is easy - it's right there in the book. Lovecraft? I don't think we'll EVER see a movie based on something HE wrote. Honestly - I wouldn't even know where to start from! Which Lovecraft's novel or book has the longest plot? - ironically! - "Shadow Over Innsmouth" is probably the longest, then (MAYBE!) - "At The Mountains Of Madness". All the others would make for a very scary but 5 mins long "movie", just like mine favourite - "PICKMAN'S MODEL".
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is low concept. High concept refers to character driven films that need to be thoroughly explained to understand. Low concept refers to concepts that can be quickly and simply described. "A dad builds a shrink ray and his kids get shrunk". Idk why but "high concept" is almost always misused.
Loved this one. I've always felt Dagon is a underappreciated horror film.
Agree 100%
Yeah the only problem is the cgi
I love this movie, and I wish Stuart Gordon had gotten more respect and funding as a filmmaker because he really had a passion for Lovecraft.
I remember his last film would have been an Edgar Allan Poe biopic starring Jeffrey Combs.
He tried to crowdfund the film on Kickstarter, and I backed it, but it didn't meet it's goal.
It still boggles my mind how the horror community didn't go all in on that and make it happen.
5:25 "the prosthetics are very well crafted" or you could say they were 'crafted with love'
it's ok, I'll show myself out
Dammit. You always miss a few.
Nah you can remain,stay away from the weed.
Best Lovecraft movie. Saw it many times! You can really see that the director knows Lovecraft and Innsmouth. He may even be some kind of fan of the source material. All actors are great in this... except maybe the drowning couple and the protagonist. But the high priestess is outstanding!
That's a hold statement. I respect you're opinion, but I still say it was reanimater.
@@feck2594 sure, everyones taste is different. Im ok with that!
“His last Lovecraft adaptation”
Dreams In The Witch House would like a word with you.
Lol. I believe he said "as one of his last adaptations" Meaning it was one of his last movies like this he did.
@@williemakit2477Sorry, but you're wrong. He clearly says "This also sadly ended up being Gordon's last Lovecraft adaptation."
I think they meant full length feature film. Not cable TV anthology episodes
@@DarrenJSeeley That's not how it works.
Another Stunner!
I've been looking for this this movie because of this video. The blu-ray came in last month, but I didn't get a chance to watch it until about 2 weeks ago. It is the best direct Lovecraft adaptation I have ever watched. I think the Spanish language part of it made it even more alien for me, a native English speaker who took 3 years of French and zero of Spanish. Everything about the movie was played completely straight. There was none of the camp that normally suffuses Stuart Gordon's movies. The practical effects were a little unconvincing in places but the fact that they hid so much and let your brain fill in the gaps made up for it. The big monster reveal at the end, while brief, was, for their budget, very impressive. I felt every moment of this movie. The fear, the unknowing, the gnawing tickle at the back of your mind that you're missing something. It was such a fantastic telling of the Shadow Over Innsmouth. The music was beautiful, the atmosphere was perfect. I felt Uxia's longing and Paul's righteous revulsion and eventual acceptance of the inevitable. I have no idea how I missed this movie for so longer . For anybody who hasn't seen this who is a fan of Lovecraft, please watch it. Please buy a copy. Apparently it was critically and commercially panned when it was initially released. Everybody hated it. Even people who were fans of this type of movie hated it. According to the interviews included on the blu-ray, nobody wanted a movie about fish people. Well I do. And this is it. And it's awesome.
I still remember getting the dvd and being blown away by this film
We saw it in the theaters in NYC when it came out and loved it. Still holds up
RIP Stuart Gordon :(
i remember seeing this with a friend in 06 and we were both blown away by the atmosphere. i read a translated version of dagon and he played dark corners of the earth. i still enjoy it to this day, especially the haunting theme song.
Not only have I seen this gem, but I managed to find a copy on DVD!
Imagine that I watched it when I was 6yrs or so, then I remembered it but don't know the name of the movie but with some heavy search....i reunited with one of my childhood masterpieces
Caught this out of the blue at the video store. Thoroughly enjoyed this and definitely consider this a hidden gem.
03:45 “what are yah buyin’?”
Didn't Gordon also do a Lovecraft adaptation for Masters of Horror? I think it was Dreams in the Witch House. That would have been after this movie, right? No way this was his last Lovecraft story.
I love Dagon and its twisted atmosphere. I believe Stuart Gordon returned to adapt H.P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House for Masters of Horror series.
Lovecraft is basically unfilmable. Much like Stephen King, the effectiveness of his work relies so much on the reader's own imagination that any attempt at concrete representation inevitably disappoints with its inherent mundanity.
I disagree because we've seen both of them done right when the right people are involved. Frank Darabont has managed to capture the spirit of several Stephen King stories and often, what little changes he makes are usually improvements on the source material. Lovecraft has had several excellent direct adaptations (Color Out of Space) and inspired works (Underwater, In The Mouth of Madness).
Damn! You stated precisely what I've thought for the past 30 yrs about why S. King movies (most, not all) aren't really any good when transferred to the big-screen. Well said. 👍🏻😊
No he just requires talent.
that's technically not true. The Thing and Prometheus are essentially "At the mountains of madness"
@@markw.loughton6786 Hmm, I'll have to agree with your comment. Until now I'd never thought about that. 👍🏻☺️
This movie had me like😶 when I first watched it...I always remember how sincere the "Queen" seemed in her love amidst all of the Dagon-infused batshyte crazy destruction of reality she was a part of😄
A close friend sent me the DVD. After meeting Master Gordon years earlier I am pissed I didn't see this. Sweet.
I’ve heard of this guy before, that’s so crazy...”Re-Animator! I love that movie!” That line is from a movie, but it’s about Re-Animator! It’s crazy!
American beauty
Actually, Stuart Gordon's last Lovecraft adaptation was DREAMS IN THE WITCH-HOUSE, an episode of Mick Garris' MASTERS OF HORROR series and honestly, it's the best made episode of that series (and also stars the lead from DAGON)
I wouldn't say it's better than "Cigarette Burns", "Pelts", or "Sick Girl" but it's certainly one of the best... That whole show is great and only a couple of episodes were weak.
It certainly is one of the best of that series and there were many great episodes.
His Edgar Allan Poe episode in season 2 was also great and Gordon was supposed to do a feature-length Poe biopic starring Jeffrey Combs.
Gordon tried to crowdfund it on Kickstarter, and I backed it, but it didn't meet it's funding goal.
To this day, it still boggles my mind how the horror community didn't rally around that campaign and make it happen.
What a wasted opportunity.
Dagon is my favorite Lovecraft movie.
Got it on DVD! You know a movie is good when you wonder what happened afterwards.
Actually, Gordon's last Lovecraft adaptation was "Dreams in the Witch-House" (2005), the episode of Masters of Horror that starred Ezra Godden from Dagon.
This movie still scares me
One of the most accurate Lovecraftian films I've seen. The face-skinning scene is disturbingly realistic.
I love Dagon, the atmosphere tone and set design are all amazing. I don't think the late great Stuart Gordon ever made a bad film, he was a true icon of horror. Very nice presentation.
The part with an old man getting his face cut disturbed me the first time I saw 😱
You aren't kidding about the mermaid girl in this movie. You have to watch it to understand. You can't look away.
There's plenty to like with this 20 year old movie, I tend to rewatch it during Halloween season every year.
This movie isnt 20 years old. I'm almost certain the 80s was 20 years ago. If this movie is 20 that would make me old.
@@arthas640Dagon was released in 2001. You're old.
Gomez is alluring and a bit frightening at the same time.
She makes you realize why sailors would sail into rocks chasing after mermaids
I come back to this movie every other year---particularly good for a raining night drinking something interesting. Seriously underrated
Im writing a movie script for an updated shadow over innsmouth and did not know this movie existed. I really loved it.
I remember not liking the movie much in the 90s, but was always struck by Macarena Gomez. So beautiful and alluring, I was thinking to myself "well, maybe tentacles aren't so bad after all."
When the MC is running from room to room in the hotel, that is PERFECTLY realized from the book. Tense stuff. I have the DVD too. It's the best Lovecraft movie. It's in a modern era, but it feels right. (Okay, maybe that black and white "The Call of Cthulhu" is more exact. Tough call.)
Just noticed the Miskatonic University Jumper lol
i wouldnt mind the tentacles
I actually saw a Trailer for this movie on SYFY and never got a chance to see it.
Dagon I got to see in a theater in RI in 2013 with Gordan and his wife next to me
Uxia and the Succubus of 2016 Siren movie, monsters waifus. 🥰
And ending is similar, like "The shape of water". The monster instead of getting killed, gets the happy ending. Movies that explore that, are rare.
I love this movie. Yes it's low budget, and yes (at least in the states) about the only place you could see it was on the Sci-Fi Channel, but this is truly a haunting film that stays with you. I went out and bought a VHS copy shortly after I first saw it (yes I'm that old). I'm so happy to see this film finally starting to get some love over the last 3-4 years. If you don't own it yet (and you still like physical media), check out the Vestron Video Blu-ray released last year. It really did right by this movie.
I was horrified by this film when I first saw it. All I could remember after leaving the theater was that it was a film where people were turned into fish and I did not want to see it again. As I grew older I guess I had chances to see this, but I allowed it to fade from my memory--except that I knew I was scared of it--then one day, I started thinking about it, and sought it out. Now it is a film I watch at least every Holloween.
possible the best HP. Lovecraft adaptation on screen
This movie confused the hell out of me. I had read Dagon, not long before the movie came out and this wasn't it. It wasn't until I read The Shadow over Innsmouth, that all became clear. I'm guessing they wanted to make Innsmouth, but couldn't get the rights, so they just slapped the "Dagon" title on it.
Anyway, loved the movie and still own it on VHS.
The change in setting is the most likely reason why the title was changed. "Innsmouth" isn't a very Spanish-sounding placename.
The new Colour out of space was neat.
Color Out of Space was a pretty interesting adaptation as well
This wasn't Gordon's last Lovecraft adaptation. I have no idea what 'obvious low budget' means. You really should elaborate. The tone is akin to BOTH his previous Lovecraft adaptations, to a T. Darkly humorous and absurd(it's about fucking fish people) but still a bit intense and dangerous. Goddard embodies that perfectly(which I would assume is why Gordon hired him to be the lead in his next Lovecraft adaptation.) Finally, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids WAS Gordon's. NOT Disney's. He left the project as director because he didn't want to work with a bunch of suits breathing down his neck. He valued the independence of independent filmmaking brought him, NOT low budget filmmaking, independent. There's a difference. He didn't make movies like Things or Birdemic. He was a real creator.
As a kid the mystery and everything stuck with me still remember the ending
Dagon is supposed to be a Philistine deity. But archaeologists say they have not found any evidence that the Philistines worshipped Dagon.
its only mentioned on the bible and its nothing like a fish
Great vid. Very well done .
Love anything about Mother Hydra and Father Dragon .
I love this movie. Has that typical Gordon/Yuzna black humour as well. I mean, an octopus man shoving a guy's head down a toilet while his son shouts in Spanish... LOL! So bizarre. Also: See if you can spot Richard Stanley loping around as one of the fish-men. The hat might be telling.
It was filmed in my home country Spain , love this movie and ive been in the place they filmed it, pretty spooky place.
Love this well done low budget take on the Shadows over Innsmouth. I'm still waiting for the film adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness.
Me too. Guillermo tried to make it but the studio wouldn't go for it. Kinda sad, really. If anyone could do it justice, he could.
Always love a good fish based horror film! Find it's even better if I've got a big plate of sushi in front of me.
Thats such a good and relatable comment 😍
A fun double feature for this film would be watch Dagon then Underwater two fun aquatic themed horror films with a lovecraft twist.
I saw this one about three months ago and even though it had some choppy cgi i thought this was was damn good fun. I also thought it had like a video game like feeling to it. Anyone else?
Hey what about dreams in the witch house? that one came after this and its a lovecratf adaptation made by stuart gordon
Fun fact; The town's name (Imboca) is apparently a Spanish translation of Innsmouth.
Macarena Gomez was also in the great Spanish series "30 Coins".
I did see Dagon lol
In 2001 I was 21 years old back then I watched a lot of HP Lovecraft stuff and when I was a kid I read a lot of HP Lovecraft
Out of the love craft films to exist in movie this one is actully my favorite the actors were perfect and i find dagon to be a super interesting lovecraft god. i need to buy this on dvd lol.
Wow I actually just heard of this movie a few days ago bout to watch it on TH-cam tonight after work
Underrated lovecraft ataptation, love it
I'm guessing that it was supposed to be "previous success" instead of "precious" but I love Re-Animator too much to disagree.
thanks for sharing
A Yuzna/Gordon tribute to Spanish FANTATERROR mixed with Lovecraft mithology. This movie is the final film role for legendary actor Paco Rabal and the first film role for amazing actress Macarena Gómez. With [REC] and Amenabar's Thesis, the best 3 Spanish horror films for the last 25 years.
Maybe the best Spanish horror films of all time are Chicho Ibañez Serrador's Who Can Kill a Child, Eugenio Martín's Horror Express, Bigas Luna's Anguish and Alex de la Iglesia's The Day of the Beast, but this is another story.
Omg I loved this movie as a child, it introduced me to Lovecraft ❤️
Flawed but really shines in some spots, specially the framing with the dreams.
About 2 watch right now,great Recommendation
I just heard about this movie/watched it for the 1st time about a month ago(really liked it). But man, did the creators of RE4 rip the ever-loving shit off of this movie!!!
Oh I seen this 20 yrs ago. great skinning scene.
Stuart Gordon nailed every H.P. Lovecraft movie he made.
I remember seeing it for the first time, about two years after it released, on the Sci-Fi Channel. Thought it was pretty great!
He really loves lovecraft stories
Super underrated film.
The full movie is on TH-cam for anyone who wants to watch it 😁
i really like this movie, and its true, its a b movie. but up to this point i feel it captures the lovecraft's tone of the book perfectly (even though its not a strictly faithful adaptation). and another one that manages to do that is one of my favorite video games, call of cthulu: dark corners of the earth. such an atmosphere!!!
Sosososo good to me lol and the Vestron slipcover sure is perdy!
Free on Tubi
It’s weird the way you toss off castle freak just before saying Gordon went “back to the Lovecraft well.” 🤔
Funny that you should cover this film now as I saw it for the first time a few days ago.
Best horror movie I ever saw
did this movie inspire the village section of resident evil 4?
This is prob my fav modern horror movie
But...i have seen this movie. It's a Lovecraft movie. And in parts a very god adaptation (of a different short story)
This is one of those movies I saw but have no idea how.
Dude really pronounced the name Javier with a J like he is saying the name Jason.
Great movie, it's actually fairly close to "The shadow over innsmouth." it's got all the beats from the Lovecraft classic story. I highly recommend "The Ressurected" as well directed by Dan O' Bannon that's a fairly decent adapt of Lovecrafts other story "The case of Charles dexter ward."
It's Jeffrey COMBs. As in comb. The man's a horror ICON! How do you mess THAT up?
This Ain't THE LITTLE MERMAID.
LOL!
Just watched "Incident in ghost land " best horror movie I've seen in a long time. Check it out, it has H.P. Lovecraft tie in
Twist ending i liked
This movie is free on Tubi right now if anyone wants to watch it.
Totally bought it and saw it last month ! holy hell its rad !
Actually, I have seen it. It's pretty great.
This movie is actually so enjoyable to watch, and it had the perfect amount of cheesy. I was kind of expecting a let down, but I thought it had good acting (imo) and in particular I find myself as one of the odd ones out who enjoyed Ezra's performance quite a bit and it all looked fairly intentional to me, and it reminded me of a Lynch film. Also there's great special effects, and the plot stays really unpredictable. It has its rough edge like the terrible cgi (but I'll say, still serviceable) and some special effects blunders here and there. But overall I loved it, it got me tense, and like any hp lovecraft story, had me pondering big things at the end. Highly recommend
I could of sworn Dagon was a medieval horror movie by Gordon starring Lance Henriksen, lol.
You are thinking of The Pit and the Pendulum.
Another movie with highly Lovecraftian vibes is Spider Labyrinth
must see dreams in the witch house
I've never seen ANY Lovecraft story successfully adapted to the "big-screen" - THIS ONE - is the closest one they got and the best they made. It's simply impossible to make a "movie" on a Lovecraft novel, because you'd have to invent a plot "ad-hoc". BY THE WAY! This movie may have been called "Dagon" but it's not based on Lovecraft's "Dagon" novel (that remained unfinished as far as I remember), but tells another tale - the one from "The Shadow Over Innsmouth". Lovecraft books and novels have no deep plot whatsoever - they are about something else, in contrast to Stephen King which - basically! - is all about a good story. There's DOZEN'S (if not more) King's novels & books turned into movies, because the script is easy - it's right there in the book. Lovecraft? I don't think we'll EVER see a movie based on something HE wrote. Honestly - I wouldn't even know where to start from! Which Lovecraft's novel or book has the longest plot? - ironically! - "Shadow Over Innsmouth" is probably the longest, then (MAYBE!) - "At The Mountains Of Madness". All the others would make for a very scary but 5 mins long "movie", just like mine favourite - "PICKMAN'S MODEL".
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is low concept. High concept refers to character driven films that need to be thoroughly explained to understand. Low concept refers to concepts that can be quickly and simply described. "A dad builds a shrink ray and his kids get shrunk". Idk why but "high concept" is almost always misused.