One thing I don't get about this Dagon-movie and couple of other ones with names related to Cthulhu, are these freaking misleading titles. Technically all of these movies tell about Innsmouth, so connection is sort of understandable, but in that case why the hell fool audience by naming them after characters of Cthulhu or Dagon, with which movies have little to nothing to do with?
If you want to make movie about Innsmouth, then name that movie so people can tell its about freaking Innsmouth!
@Tranguillita The universe of HP Lovecraft is based on time paradox'es, delusions and missleadings. I believe that it's up to the reader to decide what is what- Sorta like the 40K universe. Also, i think that all of the stories are in the same universe, as suggested by Call Of Cthulu.
@alainhung1 I don't get your point. It was produced in Spain and half of the actors are spanish, the original version is in Spanish as well... Sorry but I still don't get it
@wildmann23 It's on Netflix. I've always been interested in it, but for some reason the rating suggestion is 2.5 stars. Typically I overlook these movies due to the ratings - as Netflix movies are total crap anyway - but after seeing this trailer and realizing it's H.P. Lovecraft... I HAVE to see it! Doesn't look that bad at all, anyway!
Hmm. The book was about four pages long and didn't involve any of that. The narrator escaped a prizon ship and searched days for land. One day he awoke and discovered that the seafloor had risen. He walked along creeped out about the dead fish and notices a giant rock engraved with signs of fish people. Then he sees Dagon, the mighty fish god. Then he gets back to the U.S. and writes a suicide letter only to be interrupted by something. Oh, and he says he knows the end is near. :/
@8MattJ8 I'm not the only one who read it! Seriously, I bought the completed works of Lovecraft. The movie is trash. It had nothing to do with Dagon at all. BTW, Nyarlathotep(the movie is on youtube;it's fifteen minutes long)
One of the best movie adaptations by Loecraft still not the best but this is basicly how long can you go by lovecraft movie adaptations because his stories are really meant to read and leave everything to imagination.
Haha, this movies so awesome. It was so interesting watching the guy with the glasses walk around that one house all crazy and confused. My brother whose 10 years older than me was watching this and chuckling at how he just starts acting all crazy.
there is a game like that actually, its called Call of Cthulhu, which is what this movie is based off of, Cthulhu Mythos. Your basically Hunted down and you almost NEVER have down time, your basically always in danger just like the guy in this movie. I loved the game and movie so much :P
this is such a sick movie, definitely the best i've seen on sci-fi. not to mention it would make a pretty cool video game with the whole theme of being hunted down haha
@sl2mmer yeah playing that game gave me this awesome image of 3 ancient gods of the universe, but these shitty (looking) movies of lovecraft kinda kill that image
I remember seeing this and thinking "A decent Sci-fi Channel movie"; Then realizing that's only because one of the greatest horror authors inspired Dagon. So I have to thank this film for introducing me to HP Lovecraft.
"Dagon" These are terrible european spanish horrors, with effect "presence of spectator at film events".
I tell terrible horrors as there are horrors not terrible, terrible horrors - units. Horrors are meant = mystical horrors. Not mystical horrors do not frighten, this version of horrors, tries to make effect refined torture of a victim and severe murder, but these horrors never will be terrible, how many they would not try
Imposible, el cuento de Dagón no posee más de 10 páginas, y la temática es muy distimta. ¿Cómo pueden citar a H.P Lovecraft para hacer un fime así? Mucho gore y poco ambiente, lo siento.
@Pindaro7 En realidad es un cruce entre el Cuento de Dagon y la Sombra sobre Insmouth. Realmente la pelicula esta bastante bien y aunque tenga escenas gore tambien hay tension como en la obra de Lovecraft. Para mi es de lo mejorcito que se ha llevado al cine de tematica Lovecraft.
Call of cathulu: deep corners of the earth, Dagon... seems connected... like the ''Deep Ones''... Innsmouth... the refrences, connections. SOMEONE RESEARCH THIS! CUZ IM BORED!
I am 14 and I suddenly remember this movie from my childhood, but forgot the name, so I googled "Horror Movie of Cannibalistic Fish" and I came out with Dagon, which so happens to be the movie I was searching for!
twas a very good book to =) ive read the simon version a couple times. the movie was just wierd! the first half was ok though. anybody played the pc game? i wonder if thats any good.
I've seen this movie 4 or 5 times now. I really like it. and i kinda dont know why lol. maybe its the mythology? or the town drunk? the hot princess? the eerie looking town? the main theme song? or maybe its all of those things combined.
i remember seeing this movie on tv a few years back and it is really well done. But I never got to watch the ending of it though, but i'mma watch it now, thanks for the trailer.
This is what got me about the movie... it kept reminding me of Metallica's The Thing That Should Not Be. "Hybrid children watch the sea... pray for Father roaming free... Out from ruins once possessed... Fallen city, living death!"
What's wrong with your head? He's just a normal guy with glasses. If those glasses catch your brain offguard, making them think he's a geek.. than that's your fault for being 10 years old or living in 1950.
Well, since this IS a movie, there's nothing wrong with assuming he might be a geek. In modern movies and literature glasses are often used to symbolize intelligence or "geekness"
@expoonation Who cares? Sounds like you're addressing a dumbass? Glasses are just like shoes, or a hat, anyone who bashes someone for glasses is beyond help. Oh loved the movie by the way...
@expoonation In the movie the main character was presented as a geek and a city boy. I saw it when i was watching a lot of Spanish horror movies and it was one of the first one I had seen which was about the cthulhu myth. All the acting was great,the scenery was great, the couple in danger was lovable and the danger they faced was solid. I don't expect movies to be exact copies from the stories they originate and this one succeed in been true to the myth and entertaining at the same time.
@station10444 Not really. It wasn't good and didn't represent the book at all. It had nothing to do with any of this movie. Dagon was just there. He didn't do anything. The fish people weren't involved except on a big rock.
@TheNightsMoon The summary of the story that you did "If accurate" shows that the producers of the movie only used the name. But i don't really care about that. For me Dagon still is a scary and entertaining movie based on the cthulhu myth.
This movie had a great plot, and amazing character development.
Maltrusion 4 weeks ago
Way to turn 7 pages into approximately 2 hours...
chocolover95 2 months ago
The plot of this film is a mix between Dagon & Shadow Over Innsmouth. A highly enjoyable film for Lovecraft fans.
tarikay93 2 months ago 2
@tarikay93
it was one of the better adaptations. This and Nyarlathotep starring Dean Stockwell.
Ghoulcraft 2 months ago
Cthulhu's chick?
ThisisAliFareedshow 2 months ago
very creepy movie
qml1 3 months ago
I was just listening to the book on BBC Radio 4 extra..cool
QPRTokyo 5 months ago
For everyone who expects good horror movie- dnt watch this shit. Gore has nothing to do with horror.
TheMandarinxx 5 months ago
Very interesting plot!
mariogetafe17 5 months ago
Is that Innsmouth?
Uachintom 6 months ago
@Uachintom Probably. Judging by the fact that this is called Dagon, and was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, I would say yes, it is Innsmouth.
Recon2146 4 months ago
This was a great film, bad acting aside, it was really faithful to Lovecraft.
Cyaneyed77 6 months ago
Too bad the movie is bad. Nut the game is awesome
MrZoider 6 months ago
One thing I don't get about this Dagon-movie and couple of other ones with names related to Cthulhu, are these freaking misleading titles. Technically all of these movies tell about Innsmouth, so connection is sort of understandable, but in that case why the hell fool audience by naming them after characters of Cthulhu or Dagon, with which movies have little to nothing to do with?
If you want to make movie about Innsmouth, then name that movie so people can tell its about freaking Innsmouth!
Tranguillita 6 months ago
@Tranguillita The universe of HP Lovecraft is based on time paradox'es, delusions and missleadings. I believe that it's up to the reader to decide what is what- Sorta like the 40K universe. Also, i think that all of the stories are in the same universe, as suggested by Call Of Cthulu.
MrPrototypz 6 months ago
Massively underrated film.
mephist00tsihpem 7 months ago
in the original version any spanish people not understand english.
in the spanish version the people understand but any people not know what the problem.
in the latina version the people not understand the mexican accent.
alainhung1 7 months ago
@alainhung1 I don't get your point. It was produced in Spain and half of the actors are spanish, the original version is in Spanish as well... Sorry but I still don't get it
Larsandrew 7 months ago
@alainhung1 iz there an original version of the movie Dagon?
cyberrouge2 7 months ago
@cyberrouge2 the Heroes speak english in the fiction
alainhung1 7 months ago
"I gotta get a bigger cell phone!!"
best line in the movie
XavierDuFermier 7 months ago
so thats where they got the Idea for the game "call of cthuhlu"
LoboFan1000 8 months ago
@LoboFan1000
Wikipedia HP Lovecraft.
mrfudgeyhead 7 months ago
this was the dumbest movie ever. the fish people were fucking creepy that was about all it had going for it.
andreajablonski 8 months ago
illuminati all over this
bluefly28 9 months ago
I want to FUCK that fish woman!!
mackawack12346 9 months ago 3
One of the worst movies stored in my memory.
It was pointless, and worst of all, all of his friends died
and he didn't not revenge, nooo!
Instead he became a fish too, and joined them in a swim
under their god's tentacle, dagon.
Many deaths for nothin.
In my opinion, the movie should be rebooted.
TheOmegaRing 10 months ago
@TheOmegaRing cheers for fucking ruining it arse wipe
1991NickC 9 months ago 6
@TheOmegaRing
The movie as a subtle sense of humor that your brain do not reach.
It´s a fuckin' GORE masterpiece.
yourskull 8 months ago
@yourskull you're right, you need a huge sense of stupid humor
to like this movie, but gory or not, every movie needs a certain lvl, and that movie has no level at all.
TheOmegaRing 8 months ago
@TheOmegaRing
You've gotta be trolling.
No one with access to a computer could be as retarded as you paint yourself.
Nice try.
mrfudgeyhead 7 months ago
@mrfudgeyhead I can't be more retarted than you, who liked the movie,
and i don't think i'm saying anything crazy, the movie is bad indeed.
TheOmegaRing 7 months ago
@TheOmegaRing Wow, you are a real fucking pussy. it's based on Lovecraft's writings after all, it's supposed to have no happy ending.
DarkMurderer38 7 months ago 2
@TheOmegaRing Unhappy endings > happy endings.
ThazuaBlackarrow 5 months ago 6
Lolz Dagon is my name
dagons2000 10 months ago
@dagons2000 Yeah and apparently you're 11. Congrats.
DirEnGay 9 months ago
@DirEnGay im 10 im going to turn 11 on the 23rd
dagons2000 9 months ago
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
themanclaw2 10 months ago
@themanclaw2 And hopefully he'll stay that way for a looooong time.
KatakiDoragon 10 months ago
oooookaaaaaay, I am officially NEVER watching any movie about mermaids EVER again. @_@
starXelfXyeshua 10 months ago
They put this movie on the netflix instant queue just the other day, I haven't seen it in so long.
bonelesscronus 11 months ago
Hmmmm..just too damn bad that youtube took this movie down cause a user violation of copyrights and all.
just wish could see this movie again..it's still good horror movie.
wildmann23 11 months ago
@wildmann23 It's on Netflix. I've always been interested in it, but for some reason the rating suggestion is 2.5 stars. Typically I overlook these movies due to the ratings - as Netflix movies are total crap anyway - but after seeing this trailer and realizing it's H.P. Lovecraft... I HAVE to see it! Doesn't look that bad at all, anyway!
NerdRage209 10 months ago
@NerdRage209 it's really pretty nuts...
MrCandleBurner 9 months ago
Hmm. The book was about four pages long and didn't involve any of that. The narrator escaped a prizon ship and searched days for land. One day he awoke and discovered that the seafloor had risen. He walked along creeped out about the dead fish and notices a giant rock engraved with signs of fish people. Then he sees Dagon, the mighty fish god. Then he gets back to the U.S. and writes a suicide letter only to be interrupted by something. Oh, and he says he knows the end is near. :/
TheNightsMoon 1 year ago
Its a good flick with a little bad cgi but some great gore. Check it out.
kesinpa 1 year ago
they rolled to many 100's, impossible to get worst
HalBDeU 1 year ago
The majority of this is completely irrelevant to the actual short story.
8MattJ8 1 year ago
@8MattJ8 I'm not the only one who read it! Seriously, I bought the completed works of Lovecraft. The movie is trash. It had nothing to do with Dagon at all. BTW, Nyarlathotep(the movie is on youtube;it's fifteen minutes long)
did a very good job of representing the story.
TheNightsMoon 1 year ago
they need to make a movie for at the mountains of madness it shall be magnificent
MAGGOTSOlDIER626 1 year ago
@MAGGOTSOlDIER626 You know this is being made right now? by del toro and james cameron at the mountains of madness 3D!!
wayniac 1 year ago
One of the best movie adaptations by Loecraft still not the best but this is basicly how long can you go by lovecraft movie adaptations because his stories are really meant to read and leave everything to imagination.
PhreakStep 1 year ago 3
Haha, this movies so awesome. It was so interesting watching the guy with the glasses walk around that one house all crazy and confused. My brother whose 10 years older than me was watching this and chuckling at how he just starts acting all crazy.
letsride84 1 year ago
the skin pulling scene made me sick for days
TheMossad921 1 year ago
One of the better lovecraft movies for sure.
Jason1805 1 year ago
this is the most trashy movie i've ever seen.
Sinochek 1 year ago
How come the Cthulhu movie and Dagon movie were both based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth instead of their namesakes?
scott23bucket 1 year ago
UNDERATED FILM!
MZVIRB 1 year ago
fuck yeah i'm gonna watch this tomorrow!
sl2mmer 1 year ago
ending is also pretty awesome in my opinion
ffinfinity1 1 year ago
@ffinfinity1 I totally agree, i didn´t suspect anything, and as we say in spain: "muy mal rollo..."
anderworld 8 months ago
there is a game like that actually, its called Call of Cthulhu, which is what this movie is based off of, Cthulhu Mythos. Your basically Hunted down and you almost NEVER have down time, your basically always in danger just like the guy in this movie. I loved the game and movie so much :P
ffinfinity1 1 year ago 3
@ffinfinity1 yea there basically the same exact thing. both super badass
LoboFan1000 1 year ago
this is such a sick movie, definitely the best i've seen on sci-fi. not to mention it would make a pretty cool video game with the whole theme of being hunted down haha
durkadurka91 1 year ago
@durkadurka91 there is a game - Call of Cthulhu. its very good.
sl2mmer 1 year ago
@sl2mmer really? hmm i may have to check that out..thanks!
durkadurka91 1 year ago
@sl2mmer yeah playing that game gave me this awesome image of 3 ancient gods of the universe, but these shitty (looking) movies of lovecraft kinda kill that image
bartman464 1 year ago
fucking great movie!
SergioWW1WW2 1 year ago
I totally missed this when it played on Sci-Fi! Totally miffed. I guess since I haven't gotten to 'Shadow Over Innsmouth' yet it's ok though...
UniversalWhatnot 1 year ago
Was anyone else reminded of Resident Evil 4 by this movie?
mutantgorillaface 1 year ago
@mutantgorillaface Because RE got the idea of Las Plagas from HP Lovecraft
oneyedthing 1 year ago
it sucked so much
romas1995 1 year ago
I remember seeing this and thinking "A decent Sci-fi Channel movie"; Then realizing that's only because one of the greatest horror authors inspired Dagon. So I have to thank this film for introducing me to HP Lovecraft.
Dall5000 1 year ago 17
not at all like the story
vivalaminion 1 year ago
This looks a little like The Shadow Over Innsmouth- except with more gore. Still, Fishmen! Sort of.
Sarasirk531 1 year ago
@Sarasirk531 That's because it is Shadow Over Innsmouth LOL, I dunno why they named it after one of HP Lovecraft's other stories LOL
angelusgabrielus1982 1 year ago
hello
Dariabeemster 1 year ago
"Dagon" These are terrible european spanish horrors, with effect "presence of spectator at film events".
I tell terrible horrors as there are horrors not terrible, terrible horrors - units. Horrors are meant = mystical horrors. Not mystical horrors do not frighten, this version of horrors, tries to make effect refined torture of a victim and severe murder, but these horrors never will be terrible, how many they would not try
Russianitro 1 year ago
@Russianitro what the hell are you trying to say?I don't get you at all
fecioritza 1 year ago
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Russianitro 1 year ago
That slogan at the start and the beginning reminds me of the time Mr. Burns ran for mayor on that S2 Simpsons episode.
VanillaLimeCoke 1 year ago
i didnt even know this movie exist put personly i dont understand why they would make a movie on how awsome i am
1daygon 1 year ago
I love the scene when he flips out and starts stabbing and burning those fish people.
PhreakStep 1 year ago
OMFG!!!
I've been looking for this movie for so long!
I loved it so much when it was on the Sci-Fi channel!
Thanks for posting this!
PopyseedStudios 1 year ago
Not high art.
But very entertaining movie!
tiiito1988 1 year ago
uhh wasnt dagon about just one guy trapped on an island, this looks more like shadow over innsmouth...
turduckenband 1 year ago
LOL, it came out in 2001 not 2009
rvggarcon 1 year ago
Say this on Sci-Fi and it turned out to be actually a really good movie, so people go watch it.
Rcrocker1 1 year ago
y'know it doesnt look that bad. i might give it a try
aksquash 1 year ago
Imposible, el cuento de Dagón no posee más de 10 páginas, y la temática es muy distimta. ¿Cómo pueden citar a H.P Lovecraft para hacer un fime así? Mucho gore y poco ambiente, lo siento.
Saludos, from Chile! : )
Pindaro7 1 year ago
@Pindaro7 En realidad es un cruce entre el Cuento de Dagon y la Sombra sobre Insmouth. Realmente la pelicula esta bastante bien y aunque tenga escenas gore tambien hay tension como en la obra de Lovecraft. Para mi es de lo mejorcito que se ha llevado al cine de tematica Lovecraft.
Chemichann 1 year ago
this movie is one of the best movies i've ever seen.. NOT
TheDaySeattleDied 2 years ago
What a ridiculous comment
finntrib 1 year ago
Call of cathulu: deep corners of the earth, Dagon... seems connected... like the ''Deep Ones''... Innsmouth... the refrences, connections. SOMEONE RESEARCH THIS! CUZ IM BORED!
ingarsss 2 years ago
@ingarsss
H.P Lovecraft wrote most of the Cthulhu mythos.
hazzelodazzel 1 year ago
God Uxia was so pretty. Can't blame Paul for dreaming about her. Even if the lady parts are a bit.... slimy..
Zellig 2 years ago
this movie is bloody funny ROFLMAO!
Shaman1010 2 years ago
I am 14 and I suddenly remember this movie from my childhood, but forgot the name, so I googled "Horror Movie of Cannibalistic Fish" and I came out with Dagon, which so happens to be the movie I was searching for!
SexyVistaNerd 2 years ago
H.P. Lovecraft was behind this story and he's the one who created the Necronomicon
tjlambert28 2 years ago
twas a very good book to =) ive read the simon version a couple times. the movie was just wierd! the first half was ok though. anybody played the pc game? i wonder if thats any good.
EbayFigureReviews777 2 years ago
I've seen this movie 4 or 5 times now. I really like it. and i kinda dont know why lol. maybe its the mythology? or the town drunk? the hot princess? the eerie looking town? the main theme song? or maybe its all of those things combined.
EbayFigureReviews777 2 years ago
Nice!
Trukinni1 2 years ago
Truly excellent an homage to HP Lovecraft! A must-see! ~ (•8-D
Clematisian 2 years ago
Very good movie. The princess looks slightly like me and christina ricci
13Vampiress13 2 years ago
i remember seeing this movie on tv a few years back and it is really well done. But I never got to watch the ending of it though, but i'mma watch it now, thanks for the trailer.
tamura808 2 years ago
I haven't seen this movie in a good while. Was really great. If anyone gets a chance, I recommend watching The Call of Cthulhu as well.
JonnyxFrickinxK 2 years ago
I fucking love this movie.
lala22k2 2 years ago 42
This is what got me about the movie... it kept reminding me of Metallica's The Thing That Should Not Be. "Hybrid children watch the sea... pray for Father roaming free... Out from ruins once possessed... Fallen city, living death!"
turtleFLxanth 2 years ago
That song is based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, and this movie in turn is based on one of his novels, The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
MDHest90 2 years ago
First! Being a geek is awesome :D
and second, this movie looks awesome :D
Sal0pe69 2 years ago 2
stuart gordon is pretty awesome.
abdigon 2 years ago
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lol man why is the main actor in this movie so damn geeky. Nerd Alert!!
Nemesis2459 2 years ago
What's wrong with your head? He's just a normal guy with glasses. If those glasses catch your brain offguard, making them think he's a geek.. than that's your fault for being 10 years old or living in 1950.
expoonation 2 years ago 27
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well he acts and talks like a geek aswel, explain that. I guess ur just ageek urself this is why u wanna argue about it. :p
Nemesis2459 2 years ago
Well, since this IS a movie, there's nothing wrong with assuming he might be a geek. In modern movies and literature glasses are often used to symbolize intelligence or "geekness"
KingLefebvre 2 years ago
@expoonation to be fair hes obsesed with his laptop to the point that he dosn't want to be off it even on a pleasure cruse thats pritty geeky
demonspellfire 1 year ago
@expoonation Who cares? Sounds like you're addressing a dumbass? Glasses are just like shoes, or a hat, anyone who bashes someone for glasses is beyond help. Oh loved the movie by the way...
HistorysMysterys 1 year ago
@expoonation In the movie the main character was presented as a geek and a city boy. I saw it when i was watching a lot of Spanish horror movies and it was one of the first one I had seen which was about the cthulhu myth. All the acting was great,the scenery was great, the couple in danger was lovable and the danger they faced was solid. I don't expect movies to be exact copies from the stories they originate and this one succeed in been true to the myth and entertaining at the same time.
station10444 1 year ago
@station10444 Not really. It wasn't good and didn't represent the book at all. It had nothing to do with any of this movie. Dagon was just there. He didn't do anything. The fish people weren't involved except on a big rock.
TheNightsMoon 1 year ago
@TheNightsMoon The summary of the story that you did "If accurate" shows that the producers of the movie only used the name. But i don't really care about that. For me Dagon still is a scary and entertaining movie based on the cthulhu myth.
station10444 1 year ago