Monster of the Day #3000

Updated on March 27, 2020 By Ken Begg 10 Comments

Stuart Gordon has passed away. I’m getting up there, so I remember when filmmakers from the ’40s and ’50s started dying, now it’s people remembered from the ’80s. I never really felt that Re-Animator or From Beyond (admittedly, I haven’t seen that one) really ‘felt’ like Lovecraft, but man, Dagon sure does. Great movie. RIP, Mr. Gordon.

Keep safe, everyone.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    “Dagon” is probably the best adaptation of “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” that we’ll ever get.

  • Gamera977

    You can say that again! So it makes some changes here and there. Still it keeps the essential spirit of the story intact.

  • Gamera977

    Yeah ‘Re-Animator’ is neat little movie but I’m not sure it captures the Lovecraft vibe all that well. And ‘From Beyond’ is okay- not really a great nor a bad movie IMHO.

  • It’s loads better than CTHULHU that had Tori Spelling in a seductress role.

  • Gamera977

    Yeah I prefer Macarena Gomez.

    Honest to gosh if I were making up a silly fake Latino name that would be it…

  • Ericb

    He needed to make some changes though. Gillmen have been done to death since the story was published and coastal Massachusetts really isn’t that remote anymore.

  • Ericb

    What I mean is that he wanted to make the tale contemporary and to do so he needed to make some changes.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I do think that Dagon gets needlessly gory in one or two spots but it is one of the better HPL adaptations ever done. Though I prefer the two films by the HPL Historical Society over Gordon (sorry, folks). And I’ve been hearing a lot of praise for the recent ‘Color out of Space’.

  • Dorothy P Cobb

    Color out of Space is really good though of course the color isn’t a color you’ve never seen before.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Two silly questions:

    1) How did we get from MoTD #2099 to MoTD #3000?

    2) Does the expression on the fishman’s face above make him look like he’s constipated to anyone else? Sorry but that’s just how he looks to me.