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Dagon- Answers Prayers- Stuart Gordon
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I received the DVD of STUART GORDON'S "DAGON" (2001). Photo above shows the High Priestess during the last scenes of the film during which she tries to explain to the main character Paul that he must fulfill his destiny & join her as her lover to live in the city or kingdom with Dagon beneath the sea. After watching his girlfriend being mutilated & taken by the monstrous Dagon ,Paul pours gasoline over himself & lights himself on fire. Heroic & defiant hoping at the very least to save his soul since he believes these half-human half-fish creatures are possessed by some demonic force. But as he goes up in flames the Priestess grabs him & they fall into a pit & into the depths of the ocean & they swim off & through the entrance to Dagon's world & Paul seems oblivious of all that has happened just as the Priestess told him he would. So afterall is said & done the story has a rather strange happy ending for our reluctant hero. Now for my money this is a great adaptation of a H.P. Lovecraft story. It captures the surrealistic nightmarish quality of Lovecraft's stories.

PHOTO FROM STUART GORDON'S "DAGON" HIGH PRIEST
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CREATURE FROM "DAGON"
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DISCIPLES OF DAGON ABOUT TO PEEL THE FACE OFF OF A CAPTIVE WHO ALL THE WHILE PRAYS USELESSLY TO HIS CHRISTIAN GOD!!!
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This is one of the interesting play of ideas in "DAGON" & in Lovecraft's stories is that these older Gods or Elder Gods or Deep Ones of his hybrid mythologies seem to be more active in the world than are the forces of Christianity or other traditional religions. Lovecraft believed himself to be a man of science & rationalism & admitted to being an atheist but he had a great imagination & enjoyed creating these bizarre alternate views of reality.

In the film "SOCIETY"(1989) by Brian Yuzna there is also a creation of another form of mythologizing in which the wealthiest members of society are in fact a different species from Homo Sapiens. They either evolved along a different line to humans or are some kind of alen life-form that has been on Earth for as long as humans & now feed off humans as if we were cattle. The last scenes of the film are some of the most bizarre & extremely graphic as a large group of the members of "SOCIETY" take part in an orgiastic group melding & morphing of their slippery gooey putty like-flesh as they absorb & devour a shocked & terrified teenager. But the crude no-holds barred ending is quite shocking & disturbingly funny.

Bye for now,
GORD