Okay, "Dagon" just came via Netflix. How bad is it?

[iconoclastic cat]

Are we talking rubber monster suits, or what?

[Teaser]

1. Can you go wrong with lovecraft?

I don't know. I wish they'd just called this one "The Dunwich Horror." Given that it takes place in Europe though, maybe that wasn't feasible.

[iconoclastic cat]

2. Did you see "Dagon"? Also, there is a "Dunwich Horror" movie. Bad...bad...

Every Lovecraft-based flick I've ever seen has been either bad or campy...and bad.

[Teaser]

21. I meant "Shadow Over Innsmouth"

Don't know why I referenced Dunwich.

[iconoclastic cat]

26. Yeah, but there was no mermaid sex in "S over I"

No sex anywhere, really. Cthulhu was sort of weirdly vaginal, but beyond that...

[MisterP]

5. Bush's "call from beyond the stars" may not be Jaayzus after all...

[iconoclastic cat]

7. Definitely Azathoth, the blind idiot god at the center of the universe.

Bush uses Barney as his familiar when he contacts the Old Ones.

[Teaser]

33. Correction

The Blind Idiot God Who Thinks He's at the Center of the Universe.

[_TJ_]

3. AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL

Did I mention it was awful? So bad it's good in fact! Watch it
this minute :D

[iconoclastic cat]

6. Okay, now, be specific: what kind of awful? What should I expect?

Tantalize me!

[_TJ_]

12. It's not super mega cheap

It had *some* budget - but it's like a movie that has no idea
where to put it's money.

The actors are dreadful (I kinda like the male lead in a Bruce
Cambellish way however).

The plot is bad - even for Lovecraft.

The effects are laughable - not cheap but just stooopid.

I paid about $8 for it on DVD and I'd sure like to get that back :D

It's actually a groan-a-minute crapfest :7

[iconoclastic cat]

15. Any memorable moments?

This is actually piquing my interest. It's like a train accident...

[_TJ_]

16. Yeah - you really should see it

The climax with the ritual sacrifice by demonic fish-beings and
the slimy nude victim are worth the price of admition alone :D

edit: and the man/mermaid sex is something different too!

It is still complete crap though :7

[iconoclastic cat]

18. Yea! Complete Crap! (TM)

[lenidog]

22. You just brought up something I have'nt thought of in years by that line

>>>and the man/mermaid sex is something different too!<<<

I must have been 13 or 14 and I recall my parents going to bed and watching some AWFUL movie on "Showtime." Can't remember the name or what it was about but I know there were mermen running around trying to mate with surface chicks. I remember being nervous about my parents waking up because there was your typical gratuitous nudity in it. (The real reason I was watching it)

[Kurovski]

4. It's got some good gross-out moments.

The lead "mermaid" character's facial expressions look like a special effect in and of themselves.

[iconoclastic cat]

9. Oh, cripes. Mermaid?

There are no bloody mermaids in any of Lovecraft's works. Dammit.

[lenidog]

24. Nope, only Deep Ones

and they aren't exactly attractive. Lets say if you had your choice between a Deep One and Anne Coulter, you would go with Anne in a heartbeat.


PS Though come to think of it Anne does look like she had the taint of the Deep Ones about her.

[iconoclastic cat]

27. The Deep Ones still didn't screw anyone.

At least, not in any scene Lovecraft wrote. The guy was pretty weirdly asexual.

[lenidog]

29. He never had a scene about it in his work but he did mention

cross-breeding. I remember reading a quote from his wife who desribed their sex life as "wonderfully adequate."

[iconoclastic cat]

30. Hey, it's better than "woefully inadequate"!

He did have a strange fear of calamari, though, didn't he?

[lenidog]

32. I would have to say you are right on that count

He hated all fish. He also had a condition where his body would take on the temperature of the surrounding air. People described shaking hands with him was like shaking hands with a corpse.

[Kurovski]

34. No Mermaids, thus: "mermaids"

Implying "mermaid-like-creature"

Her tail splays in a very practical manner.

[Tom Kitten]

8. Is this the same movie

that was a scifi channel premiere a couple years ago? If so then it's ok, but then I have never seen a really good adaptation of an HP Lovecraft story...The dread just isn't there for me.

[iconoclastic cat]

11. Supposedly someone is filming "At the Mountains of Madness" right now.

But, really, once you've seen "The Thing," do you really need to make "At the Mountains of Madness"?

[_TJ_]

13. Wasn't that made already with Sam Neill?

Or am I thinking of something else?

[iconoclastic cat]

14. That's "In the Mouth of Madness."

[_TJ_]

31. That was a COOL movie

I really liked it :D

[lenidog]

10. Practically all of the film adaptations of Lovecraft's work suck

The only one I can think of that doesn't is "The Unnameable." Though its a bad movie its fun in a bad movie way. A pretty good film though not based on any of Lovecraft's work but an homage nevertheless is "In the Mouth of Madness." It is the best film out there to give you a feeling for Lovecraft.

[iconoclastic cat]

20. Didn't they do that one with a budget of like $200 or something?

[lenidog]

23. They might have but for a cheap B flick I thought the monster's

make-up was pretty damn good.

[knowbody0]

17. off topic

netflix is pissing me off. they used to send 3 the day they received 3. now it is one at a time. two days from receipt to send. good in the beginning, really slow now. You?

[iconoclastic cat]

19. Yeah, that was happening for a while. Now they're fast again.

Maybe they have distribution problems now and then. Try sending an email--they've gotten back to me when I've had questions (scratched DVDs, etc.).

[knowbody0]

25. thanks

i love getting movies in the mail, and ordering whatever i want

[iconoclastic cat]

28. Okay, I'm convinced! I'm going to watch it now!

Wish me luck!

[HeeBGBz]

35. SUX

For the most part