Dagon (2001)
It took me a while to catch up with this loose Lovecraft adaptation. In fact, it has taken me over two decades. Even great Cthulhu, locked in aeon long slumber in sunken R'lyeh, thinks I'm taking things a bit slowly. The reason for my dalliance is fear. Not of being scared of the film - I'm familiar with the concept of fiction and I'm pretty sure that's what Lovecraft was writing - but being scared of disappointment. When it comes to Lovecraft adaptations there are very few good ones. Reanimator ? Give me a break. It's a lurid, trashy comedy with an unpleasant streak of 80s misogyny running through it. So I viewed Dagon with trepidation, especially when I learned the man behind the camera was none other than the director of Reanimator and self appointed master of Lovecraft adaptations, Stuart Gordon. The man is certainly a trier, still seeking to convince the world of Scary Movie that it should really be interested in the profoundly unfu...