The Temple of Dagon

Posted: **Mon May 31, 2004 7:14 pm**

I picked this one because of the story Shadow of the Gathering was influenced by this story. This scared the shit out of me and it is one that will be something that will be haunting in the mind and nightmares of what is there among the shadows, that living in the mind seeing the Fish-God. This is a question for some of you who wrote in the Mythos and how long have your wrote Cthulhu Mythos. But the story Dagon is one story that will burn in my mind a long time after seeing the movie as well.

Posted: **Mon May 31, 2004 10:03 pm**

Hi there Nickolaus..

For those who may not of seen it, Nickolaus is featured on the Temple of Dagon, in the 'Disciples of H. P. Lovecraft: Online Writers of the Mythos' section. You can read some of his work there.

Speaking of Dagon (the movie), if you are a Mythos fan and have not seen it, I strongly recommend renting or buying it! As most movies, it does not follow the plot of 'Dagon' exactly, but rather incorporates several stories in it. It is truely the best adaptation I have seen as far as Lovecraft (I am still a huge Re-Animator fan though! :D )

Posted: **Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:43 am**

Aleister wrote:Speaking of Dagon (the movie), if you are a Mythos fan and have not seen it, I strongly recommend renting or buying it! As most movies, it does not follow the plot of 'Dagon' exactly, but rather incorporates several stories in it. It is truely the best adaptation I have seen as far as Lovecraft (I am still a huge Re-Animator fan though! :D )

It was pretty damn close though. Scared the crap out of me if you ask me.

Posted: **Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:25 am**

Saw the film yesterday. It was soooo much more original than AvP or Texas Chainsaw or whatever teeny crap they show at the cinemas. I loved how the whole plot was moved to the present.

One thing bothered me though: Dagon looked like shit. In my opinion. It had one eye in the middle of the head and it looked like a toad that got roadkilled, I mean all cgi. Personally I never imagined D with tentacles. More like what Aleister has for his avatar.

Posted: **Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:06 am**

Dagon was interesting, but there was so much about it that just agravated me. Why didnt Stuart Gordon just call it "Shadow over Imbocca"? It had more to do with Shadow over Innsmouth than Dagon anyway.

On the same note, i have been seriously thinking about watching "The Dunwich Horror" with Dean Stockwell and sandra Dee, but i really dont see how it is going to do anything other than piss me off. I dont recall and Damsels in Distress in the story....

Plus, just how good are they going to do on Wilbur Watley in 1970? Especially since he was over 7' tall and Dean Stockwell isnt exactly a giant...

I suppose it isnt too much worse than having Peter Lori play a Raven.....

Posted: **Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:54 am**

Here is a fairly complete summary of 'The Dunwich Horror'. You may or may not want to check it out though, since it gives things away. It of course is not a perfect adaptation, but very few are. It was still nice to watch though.

http://www.templeofdagon.com/mythos/fil ... horror.htm

I have a few other summaries in that 'mythos films' section. I am trying to decide if I want to move them into the review section or not. Because they are not really reviews, but I need a better place to put them

Posted: **Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:09 am**

I looked at reviews for the Dagon movie on amazon.com and nearly every single review said it sucked. I saw a little bit of it one time, it didn't seem all that bad, nonetheless I'll check it out further sometime.

Posted: **Thu Sep 22, 2005 3:24 am**

Anybody else feel that the Lurker At The Threshold seems unfinished?- am i right that this is the story with Asenath? When i read it i had to check the story in another anthology just to make sure that realy was the end. It was just so unusually anticlimactic

Posted: **Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:52 pm**

Haven't read it, I must say. But on a similar note - why, why WHY the final tagline to 'Under the Pyramids'?

Posted: **Fri May 12, 2006 12:32 pm**

I love the movie Dagon!!

I love the story too.

When my friends saw Dagon they said
it was very different.

They said no movie had ever been
made like that one before!!!

Posted: **Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:49 am**

Yes, Dagon is very good ,but I don't like the movie THAT much.

Posted: **Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:57 am**

CSave wrote:Anybody else feel that the Lurker At The Threshold seems unfinished?- am i right that this is the story with Asenath?

wasn't asenath 'the thing on the doorstep'?

Posted: **Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:28 pm**

She was indeed.

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:34 pm**

The Lurking Fear wrote:I looked at reviews for the Dagon movie on amazon.com and nearly every single review said it sucked. I saw a little bit of it one time, it didn't seem all that bad, nonetheless I'll check it out further sometime.

Ignore them and see it. It's probably the best Lovecraft film adaptation imo. It does a good job of capturing the mood of being helpless and slowly uncovering the horrible truth. And the ending isn't your typical happy hollywood ending, either, it's actually more like a Lovecraft ending than anything else.

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Posted: **Tue Dec 01, 2009 8:53 pm**

Huh. I about rented Dagon one night but figured it was garbage-------I will have to check it out.