Written by H.P. Lovecraft Dennis Paoli
Cast Ezra Godden .... Paul Francisco Rabal .... Ezequiel Raquel Meroño .... Bárbara Macarena Gómez .... Uxía Brendan Price .... Howard Birgit Bofarull .... Vicki Uxía Blanco .... Madre Ezequiel/Ezequiel's Mother Ferrán Lahoz .... Sacerdote/Priest Joan Minguell .... Xavier Alfredo Villa .... Capitán Combarro/Captain Combarro José Lifante .... Recepcionista Hotel/Desk Clerk Javier Sandoval .... Padre Ezequiel/Ezequiel's Father Victor Barreira .... Ezequiel Joven/Young Ezequiel Fernando Gil .... Sacerdote Católico/Catholic Priest Jorge Luis Pérez .... Chico/Boy
Ah, Howard Phillip Lovecraft. Your work has been adapted, stolen, modified and outright bastardized more times than I care to count. Your name appears above more titles than John Carpenter, not to mention more opening credit crawls than Bob and Harvey Freaking Weinstein, and I get the distinct feeling that, somewhere, you are SPINNING in your grave. If you are in hell right now, you are likely tied to an uncomfortable chair and forced, your eyelids pried open, to watch these movies over and over again. "Cthulhu Mansion" alone is probably making you vomit, but that's another story.
But anyway, back to Dagon.
We join our story with the next dot-com millionaire in the making on a boat with his wife and their friends. The boat, of course, doesn't last long and the dot-com millionaire and wife head ashore into a small fishing village. Stopping into a church with a familiar sign, Esoterica Orde De Dagon, allows them to at least try and get their stranded friends some help. This sets off a chain of events in the most evil little seaside village since John Carpenter and his "Village of the Damned" redux.
Which, of course, anyone even vaguely familiar with Lovecraft's work will see coming from hundreds of nautical miles away. When the only church in town worships the psychopathic meat-eating god of murderous mer-creatures, you know it's not going to be Pleasantville On the Seaside.
And I have to hand it to our boy genius here...when there's fifty angry villagers storming his hotel room, how does he help himself? Not by taking a couple minutes to push his bed and other furniture against the door, oh NO that'd be far too simple! He instead decides on removing a deadbolt lock from one door and installing it on another with a SWISS ARMY KNIFE!! He then takes the couple minutes he bought with the half - installed deadbolt (at a net time loss of like a minute and a half--I haven't seen an investment idea this miserable since the "All Enron and Haitian Penny Stock Portfolio".) to take his skinny, hundred and fifty pounds soaking wet body to try and break down the door into the room next to his.
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