Two couples on the yatch vacationing along the coast of Spain run into a violent storm that throws the boat against the rocks, and one of the women is seriously injured. The other couple decides to reach the shore in the dinghy to seek help. Soon the two young people realize that on that island shrouded in a strange atmosphere, the inhabitants are deformed beings--any attempt to turn back seems futile.
Dagon The Mutation of Evil is a film produced by Brian Yuzna and masterfully directed by Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond). The film is inspired by the short story "The Shadow over Innsmouth" by Lovecraft, Gordon's muse, and is precisely about the god of the deep sea, Dagon.
The talented Stuart Gordon successfully transports the Providence writer's cramped, spooky atmospheres, enriching them with sophisticated, theatrical cinematography as well as confident set design and sounds that at times sound softly like somber litanies.
Beautiful is the island inhabited by disfigured mutants, scourged by an incessant rain that casts the viewer into that marine and cursed dimension, also superlative is the decaying hotel completely in tune with the decaying bodies of the inhabitants, and the sequence of the fleshing out of Ezequiel's face played by Francisco Rabal. Dagon is a roundup of these and other visually striking images that help make it a perfect Lovecraftian horror film.
