Dagon: HP Lovecraft Month: Deusdaecon Reviews
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Marsh was only pretending to be alright with being a Fish-Man so that he could get his laptop back. This was a 1990s laptop. That shit ain't cheap!
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I know he just got a product key for Windows 2000. That inconsiderate wretch
I like that Marsh's eyes involuntarily blink on the hotel clerk's behalf, because it's a nice way to get a bit of direct narrative from the story, into a visual medium.
The irony is that this is a very low budget project, but it does capture the essence of lovecrafts insanity
Well, I now know where Resident Evil 4 got its plot outline from.
Hello,
The "squid-lady" is an spanish actress who has becomed famous for, basically, interpret a character on "La que se avecina", an humor TV series (family friendly), that still on air. Her name is Macarena Gómez. She also appears in REC 3. What a twist 0_0
Does she have tentacles in that as well? Any way she's quite something :D
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that scene is the essence of true horror. sitting in a public toilet and someone constantly janking at the door
In the original story, it's also hinted at that the narrator is already partial turned and half mad at the time that he's narrating some many years after the events at Innsmouth.
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I've had the same dream.
"Look at me and tell me what you see..."
Is it weird that I would be into it even after the weird fishy legs were exposed?
Yes. Real f plus podcast moment there.@@apatheticxmindsetx3549
The Cthulhu prayer. I think it’s because that some people believe that Dagon is Cthulhu. It’s just another name for him, since Dagon is actually the name of a Mesopotamian deity. A fertility God.
Well, they do mention how "Dagon will f-k her," so they hit the *fertility* part on the head with that one.
There is of course logic that Marsh has accepted his fate. He had accepted it before that when he was in the torture room. The only reason that he was still fighting by that point is that he had just a smidgen of will left in him and fought like a cornered fox. The moment he fell into the abyss and his latent fish qualities came through it was like a revelation to him. The moment where he left the normal world to go and live eternaly with Dagon (and his sister in unison).
Also re: your point about the ending. I find it works, I always interpreted the gills opening as he finally accepts his fate. Also realises his sister is hot as heck.
I feel like the ending was very lovecraftian. No happy ending, no matter what they do they're pretty much fucked by something unknowable and greater than the plot will ever get into. It was oddly satisfying for me in the way, the monsters win, no matter how valiant or intelligent the hero was.
its a nokia so of course it will still work and he could have used it to kill everyone in town
more powerful than anything, even the old ones.
" Nokia - Connecting People through Blunt Trauma "
My grandpa always said people get brain damage from mobile phones
If Macarena Gomez flashed me the crazy eyes, I'd be ok with it.
Tentacles or not. Immortal hybrid spawn doesn't sound bad either honestly.
I was probably too young when I first saw this but I always took the ending as a tragedy. That he was forever doomed to be imprisoned in the eye of Dagon by those that killed his friends with no power or control
n kohler good interpretation. I wrote it off as gran guignol like the ending of that movie Bleeders (aka Hemoglobin) which was also loosely (emphasis on loosely) based on a Lovecraft story The Lurking Fear. In Bleeders like Dagon the hero has a twisted inHuman origin and resigns himself to an incestuous relationship with his long lost half-sister.
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15:55 - 16:18 Love the Futurama reference!
I love this movie. And I fell in love with Macarena Gomez when I saw it first.
This was a remarkably good movie with remarkably bad acting from pretty much everyone but the protagonist. I guess the old guy who played the analog to Zadok was fine as well.
But this film is easily the most faithful Lovecraft adaption that exists. Weirdly, though, faithful to the wrong book lol.
Also I've seen this movie probably 15 times and I never once noticed he was wearing a Miskatonic sweater. That's awesome.
Dark Corners of the Earth, now there was a game!
Here here, horrendously overlooked. The parrell in this movie and in the game where the main character has to run from room to room in the hotel to escape, horror gold and really got my attention!
Better than the new that came out.
also : "YOU ARE MY BROTHER, AND YOU WILL BE MY LOVER - FOREVER"
Deusdaecon, great review. I have a Bachelor's in Psychology and this ending makes a ton of sense from that perspective. If you know what cognitive dissonance is, then you can understand that there's a LOT of tension inside of the protagonist's mind. His girlfriend and friends are dead. He's no longer even human. Thus, his mind is broken. He has nothing. What can he do? Go back to normal society? No, but he can embrace this new beginning. This second chance. To me, the ending is way ahead of it's time AND it remains true to it's Lovecraftian philosophy.
Yeah that idea does make sense, he decides to go with the flow to ease the conflicting ideas of his human life vs fish life
I think he is so mentally broken at this point Dagon’s will takes over him.
He did have visions of the squid lady in the beginning, suggesting some kind of psychic phenomenon and it is Lovecraft after all.
Very true. It's a great ending and as such it should be praised. Not a lot of directors have the balls to do such an ending.
@Kyros Droztamyr big fakts
That's basically what I was thinking tbh. (With the ending of Tusk actually too essentially about not being able to go back and being broken.)
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OH MAN I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS MOVIE LIKE 11 YEARS AGO!
I didn’t remember what it was called but once I saw the part where Marsh gets attacked by the townsfolk I finally remembered what this movie was.
Like.
Holy shit.
This is probably just me, but Uxia (Tentacle Babe) looks a little like Barbara Steele with those piercing eyes and severely beautiful face. By the way, I don't think the Cthulhu chant is too inappropriate, he and Dagon both dwell mainly in the sea after all- heck, one looks like an octopus, the other a fish man.
No. Dagon is Cthulhu's servant. In other words, Cthulhu and Dagon are two different entities altogether.
A young Steele and Macarena Gomez look similar
At the end of shadow over innsmouth, didn’t the protagonist talk about transforming and meeting his cousin who will also transform to return to the sea together?
He did also seeing now turned grandma and full deep one great grandma
Nice drachenlord reference. Anyway, I just read the shadow over innsmouth: he dreams that stuff; & his cousin is young, & there's no incest in the book, thankfully.@@dragonlordthekingofdragons6373
I love Your reviews, but this conclusion always bothered me a bit, so I just feel like I need to get my point of view off my chest here.
I personally was actually delighted seeing this ending, and it was making sense for me. Yes - Marsh was showed as a guy who will fight for himself, and ones he cared about. And I liked that in him. But at the end he literally lost everything. His girlfriend just died, he had no way of making it back to his old life, and even his attempt of killing himself to spite his wrongdoers failed. He had nothing more to do. He couldn't drown, and there is really no immediate way for him to end it in any way. And the only thing that's before his eyes now is this girl, and the place he was dreaming about his whole life. This is the only option for a closure for him - to see what lies beyond this dream, and what awaits him there. Also, that is a pretty fitting end for a Lovecraftian protagonist in my opinion. Let's face it, they're never well after their story concludes, and Marsh here - brave, and persistent as he was - finally had to give up and submit to his fate. So in my opinion the ending was while tragic for him, even better for it. He was just pushed beyond his limits.
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that futurama reference was great lol
I prefer the earlier Red Dwarf one :D
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i rather liked this film. yet, i wish the film showed the deep one hybrids, as turning into deep ones not random chaos spawn. still a super proud daddy to have this one in my collection.
Man, I'm glad you put in clips from DAGON. I've been looking for this one for a long time. And with a narrative too? Great!
Love your stuff, please keep it up. I especially love Lovecraft month, such an awesome theme.
16:06 Ah, Futurama. The show that keeps on giving, even after it's ended.
Saw this when it premiered at the Grand Illusion in Seattle. Steward Gordon was there which was cool
I interpreted the ending to be something closer to either him breaking as death seemed to not even be an escape. Either that or maybe something in the transformation warped him
The whole Dagon/Cthulhu relation is not so odd. All the devotees of the Old Ones pray to Cthulhu, as he is the High Priest of the whole Pantheon.
I'm Spanish, and let me tell you: there is NO WAY IN HELL an old drunken guy from rural Spain could speak A WORD of English.
Suspension of disbelief out the window.
I take the ending more as Marsh being somewhat under the power of Dagon when he fully transformed. The moment he got the gills he felt the pull to Dagon.
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To be fair zadoc Allan did mention the cthulhu prayer when he was talking to the narrator in shadow over Insmouth. Seems to be a universal thing that even the language of the great old one can summon deep one's and the like
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The Futurama bit absolutely killed me!
Nice review this is actually one of my favorite movies.
My favorite channel.
the intro of this is actually similar to the intro of Dagon (the short story) with the statues and what not.
Does this remind anyone else of resident evil 4? But with less squid gods
Scott Yoshihara I agree......for some reason I picture like a prequel to resident evil 4 but instead of the fish people replace them with the las plagus lol
So in the end the protagonist stays with the best girl and live forever...
Where is the horror?
Hanariel I think the fear is the discovery of the inhuman ancestory, finding out your part of a human eating half fish people and losing yourself to the madness...but to be fair the way this world is going the ending of the movie seems like the best outcome lol.
His girlfriend pulled by force from her manicles, she experiencing rape by a tentacled bastard creation, his not being able to help her, and finally he knowing her fate? SHEESH!
@@luthermcgee432 Ehh she probably bled to death honestly?
That's what I'm going to think at least.
stumbled on your reviews today. really enjoying them. has that David Mitchell touch =)
I didn't have a problem with the ending. It had strong elements of physical and spiritual rebirth with him physically committing suicide and then the baptism by being pushed into the water and saved, his friends are already dead, and he's possibly insane from his contact with an Elder God or it awakened the alien part of him. I haven't read the book for a while but I thought there was some intimation that the son stopped calling on the Deep Ones after the father left for a while and started back up with the return of his father from the deep. I thought there was some intimation that the son had stumbled in his faith.
13:32 Yes, this is true, but there seems to be some sort of partnership between the Deep Ones and the Star Spawn in the literature, and that Dagon and Mother Hydra seem to be just a step below Cthulhu in the rankings of the Great Old Ones.
The deep ones and mother hydra and dagon all worship cthulhu. Even though if you think about it the Deep ones and mother hydra and dagon are creations of the elder thing's genetic engineering experiments.
Looks like a good Halloween film. I should look for this somewhere.
8:54 - bwahahahahaha!!!! your delivery is brilliantly funny!
Best use of a futurama sound clip ever
I dunno, the ending sorta fit for proper Lovecraftian horror. Humans are just small bugs at the end of things. you can fight, you can hide, you can trick, you can set yourself on fire, but at the end, you can't escape your fate. It's the ultimate Fuck You, Old Ones Win ending.
I KNEW I saw this film before. I caught this film on the Sci-Fi channel when I was around 10 or 11.
This was basically A Shadow Over Innsmouth.
It is an adaptation of that, even though Dagon is also a Lovecraft story. Same with age of ultron & infinity war, movies with the names of real books & other real books' stories.
Yeah I'm re-watching these reviews because you have yet to do Lovecraft Month 2019. For this year's Lovecraft Month, may I suggest "Necromican"?
This and the next one which from my perspective is the last one because of the order I watched them in, but anyway they are both films I had seen and liked well enough but couldn't remember the name of.
I thought the ending made sense because I assumed there was some kind of powerful psychologically influencing force behind that underwater seal thing that when he got close enough it was to strong to resist. Also I thought the mermaids desire to get it on like a razorback made sense because shes like royalty or some shit and that means her fish mutantness is more powerful then everyone elses fish mutantness and their belief system is centered around fostering fish mutantness and the highest degree of fish mutantness she could possibly hope to have for her offspring is if she has them we another royal fish mutant. Which was a simpler thought in my head than it was to write it down.
jajaja I laughed my ass off with the ¨spanisho classo¨... and I think is even funnier when you are from a spanish speaking contry... great Review!
idk if I have the same interpretation of the ending with regards to Marsh's character. I mean that pit in the ocean was the one he dreamed about his whole life, and there is no real indication that he accepted his sisters love or forgot about his friends. I mean he tried to kill himself and it didn't work, he doesn't have anything to slash his throat and he can't drown so might as well go into the pit and satisfy his curiosity. There no guarantee that he wont try to kill himself or his father and sister later, only at that moment he was driven to see what his dream meant.
I love this movie. I figured he accepted his fishyness at the end because he's into tentacles as much as I am. We are truly men of culture.
i like the ending, it fits
Me and my friends were watching random horror movie on Halloween and I didn't know what this was named but as soon as I found out his name was Marsh I knew what this was
what's the song he uses as the HP lovecraft month song?! i fucking love it!
The ending could have made more sense if either Marsh was scared of death or fascinated by the occult in some way giving him a leaning toward that, or we see him slowly losing his mind more obviously, that way you could even keep the setting on fire and it could be that failing to kill himself and being saved by the water he can now breathe makes him snap completely.
But ye, he was trying to hard to help his friends and the old man right up until the very last second he decides "oh yea Dagon for the win".
I agree! The whole Marsh/"squid lady" incest thing is way more cringey!
Love the futurama reference 😂
Missed censorship at 23:07. LOL
That's interesting - cause when I saw this movie for the first time I thought Ezra reminded me a lot of Harold Lloyd. Thought if they ever made a movie about him, that this actor would be perfect. Guess I now know why
Dagon is a great movie!
I bet his mobile phone was a Nokia..
This was a movie I really enjoyed when I saw it.
They picked well for the role of the squid woman, the actress and makeup/effects manage to make her scary and alluring at the same time.
If you’ve played Cthulhu Wars, the Insmouth prayer to Cthulhu actually does make sense. In that game, the deep ones are a minion of Great Cthulhu rather than of Dagon who doesn’t have minions there. I chalk that up to Cthulhu being much more powerful than Dagon as well as being at the bottom of the ocean and the herald of the outer gods. Dagon wouldn’t be able to even scratch the great dreamer
I'm glad you know it's the wrong prayer my friend hasn't twigged yet.
If you remember back to the novel. The main character realises that he is a fishman and plans to break his cousin out of the asylum.
I have to admit. The squid butt wouldn't immediately be a deal breaker.
I don't see how the ending doesn't make sense. It's about as Lovecraftian an ending as you can get. A happy ending would have been a disappointment.
I didn't say it needed a happy ending i said an ending that's appropriate to marsh as a character because for someone who has been fight tooth and nail oh and even killing to help his allies and save them he's surprisingly nonchalant when it comes to pissing off through a giant sea eye and fucking his squid sister.
I don't know, its kinda in keeping with the protagonist of Shadow over Innsmouth. As soon as he escapes, he digs up his past, finds out his heritage and decides to break his relative out of prison so they can go be fish together.
When you explain a Lovecraft story, in a pretty literal sense, they often come off as a bit silly, but that's okay. I'm as much as fan as anybody all the same, their strangeness is a big part of their charm.
It may be in keeping with the charachter of shadow over innsmouth, but that's irrelevent its not in keeping with the charachter of marsh in Dagon thats my point.
I guess I didn't notice it as much, I thought his character was pretty thin beyond being a vehicle for the audience. I mean, who'd really see a guy with gills on the back of his neck and not react, like at all? :L
I wrote the ending off as gran guignol, i.e. the protagonist not only learning of his grotesque heritage but resigning himself to it as well as an incestuous relationship with his mutant half-sister. It's grotesque but plays out almost as a happy ending even though it sure as Hell isn't one to the audience who are probably shocked and repelled by it.
On the ending, why wouldn't it make sense that he's no longer human, he lost his humanity when he became more fish and stopped caring about things.
why would growing gills suddenly change who he is anyway ? lets be honest we was willing to set himself on fire not ten seconds previously that doesnt seem like a bit of a rapid u-turn without much explanation, “your cult killed and mutilated my friends not to mention fed my girlfriend to a god I’d rather die horribly then join you !, oh wait, I can breathe underwater now, all is forgiven !“
@@deusdeaconReviews well isn't the idea that these creatures arn't fully human, so human so such sensabilities don't really count?
heh on a unrelat3ed movie, which lovecraft or lovecraftish movies woiuld you recomend seeing? :> I have seen mouth of madness and one of my favorite movies of all time.
Him: "FUCK DAGON!"
Her: "Yes!"
You think this guy has bad luck, you should see his doppelganger that just moved into an old boarding house.
Dreams in the witch house reference, I like it hehe.
Play call of Cuthulu dark corners please!!!
In fairness, in the novel the protagonist has the US Navy shoot Dagons realm with torpedoes and they (the fish people?) still welcome him with open arms.
Whelp This one is one of my favorite H.P. Lovecraft themed movies. Kinda bummed the pretty Tentacle girl got stuck with the dorky burnt guy. I just always figured at the very end he gave in when he realized there was no way out, was really one of them and he possibly deep down wanted this seeing he kept dreaming of the girl and wanting her (we have no idea how long he had dreamed of her and maybe he was subconsciously trying to get to this town). It kinda sent it up that way to me. burning himself was his last try. and i guess the transforming and that he has nothing else turned him out this way. It's a disturbing ending that no matter what he did there was no way out and in the end he gave into the temptation himself. It's a sad but in a disturbing way a happy ending, seeing as even evil can win and still have a "happy ever after".
Maybe he acquired the Innsmouth Look later on. :P
Man, should've been "it's beginning to look a lot like innsmouth"
The answer to every question is Stewart Gordon. And that's why I love the guy. Like David Lynch but with more naked old dudes and tentacles.
I loved this movie, it has some really funny moments, such as:
Her: "Dagon needs a sacrifice!"
Him: "Fuck Dagon!"
Her: "YES!"
The cute actress they got to play the high priestess was really good in the role.
I blame my twisted sense of humor on starting to read Lovecraft e al. at around age 9.
Recently saw her acting on Netflix
“30 coins”
It's beginning to look a lot like fish-men
Everywhere I go;
From the minute I got to town
And started to look around
I thought these ill-bred people's gillslits showed
I'm beginning to hear a lot of fish-men
Right outside my door
As I try to escape in fright
To the moonlit Innsmouth night
I can hear some more
They speak with guttural croaks and to hear them provokes
A profound desire to flee
Their eyes never blink and quite frankly they stink
Like a carcass washed up from the sea
I wish I'd paid attention to that crazy drunken man
He tried to warn me all about old Marsh's Deep One clan
It's beginning to look a lot like Fish-men
Everywhere I go;
They can dynamite Devil Reef
But that'll bring no relief
Y'ha N'thlei is deeper than they know
I'll continue to see a lot of fish-men
That I guarantee
For the fish-man I really fear
Is the one who's in the mirror
And he looks like me
He looks just like me
Also, how is it possiblee that the monsters from the film "In the Mouth of Madness" look more like the deep ones than these people do???
It doesn't matter if using the Cthulhu prayerto pray to Dagon doesn't make sense, it's still the prayer used in the book.
Thanks for this review! I didn't really feel like watching this movie after seeing Cthulhu, so you spared me that. Lovecraft is difficult to put on film, or maybe Lovecraft just isn't my thing. So far I think I like The Mound best, but I don't think there's a movie adaptation of it..
The mound would be a strange one to adapt because its so specific in its description of the ancient culture, unlike most other stories where theres a certain level of interpretation, It could be done though just would be tricky.
Yes, it would be tricky, I suppose. I'm not spooked by Lovecraft the way I expected to be, but the opposite: I'm enchanted! I was introduced to this literature last week, so please forgive my enthusiasm. The Mound seems like it would be a good story to interlace with a semi-fictional biography of Lovecraft himself, all set in that old-timey narrative, not a modern interpretation. His own "sanity" seems in question from what I've seen/read so far of Lovecraft's life. Maybe he was a recluse, or maybe he just wrote better that way.
lovecraft was a socially awkward type, and of course very racist, that mellowed somewhat but doesn't excuse it, and thats probably why his life isn't talked about much outside of his writing.
I hope if anyone ever makes a biopic of Lovecraft, they don't candy-coat it. I think all the mental issues, including the racism you mentioned, are part of his horror and the horror of that era in general. Fear of the unknown, fear of the other, fear of knowing more than what's allowed, fear of being exposed to "too much" information with effects not unlike our worst fears of mutation and/or disease with an atomic age and a space race on the horizon, but still just out of reach. No doubt he was staying current in the news of new galaxies being spotted and the questions of what it all meant. He extended those popular fears into his work. One might say he capitalized on all that fear.
Yeah didn't like ending too, it is like he just gave in after all that and maybe that was the point. In the end he gives into a fate he did not want. Similar to how in "The Rats in the Walls" the protagonist ends up going mad eating a corpse, of his friend over the course of going threw the caverns.
The point of his "giving in", as you may or may not know, is that it is at this point he truly rejects his humanity and becomes the Lovecraftian monster -- the ultimate outsider, one who is so outside that he/she prefers this to being "inside" the circle of humanity. To HPL, this acceptance of an alien heritage was in many ways the quintessence of horror, a willingness to (even if fated by one's biological heritage) embrace that which lies behind us all, a sort of "devolutionary" ecstasy, if you will. (The shoggoth in "At the Mountains of Madness" does not horrify simply because of its slimy nature, but because it represents a return to the primal, amoebal aspects of life, a reminder that this is where we all began, and a rejection of our most civilized and advanced traits is in the nature of such a return -- see his comments on drunkenness in his early essay, "More 'Chain Lightning'": "As to the 'personal liberty', 'rights of man', and other popular phrases similarly misused, there are few indeed who can fail to perceive that the 'liberty' and 'right' of a man to voluntarily transform himself to a beast, and in the end to degrade himself and his descendants permanently in the scale of evolution, is equivalent to his 'liberty' and 'right' to rob and murder at will" (Collected Essays 5, p. 18.)
Here's a better ending:
The local Ghost Rider(yes that is how it works) appears makes fried calamary in a stick out of Dagon which causes the townscalamary to explode and Paul being releashed from Dagon's curse returns to human form.
that ending pissed me off as well.
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I don't know man, considering what happens to the others I think he got off pretty easy by comparison.
fun fact, the reason the town is renamed is because “Enboca” literally translates to “in mouth”...Innsmouth...My god that’s stupid, although to be fair the hotel was named “The Gillman hotel” in the novel, so Lovecraft doesn’t exactly beat them in subtlety either.
The fisherman only looks creepy because he's obviously too stoned and is wearing sunglasses in a storm
I swear one of the creatures in your montage is Samael from Hellboy
What song playing in intro it’s amazing and can’t remember the name of song
its called Kyrie from the soundtrack to the video game Amneisa: A Machine For Pigs
To begin with great job! But if you ask me the ending is not that wrong. They just wanted to make it look like the novel. Sure, it didn't work quite well and you'll never understand it if you haven't read the short story. But in my humble opinion I believe that despite the bad transition it wasn't that bad...