Dagon

Dagon is a 2001 horror film directed by Stuart Gordon and written by Dennis Paoli. Despite the title, the plot is actually based on H. P. Lovecraft's novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1932) rather than on his earlier short story "Dagon" (1919). Paul Marsh is a wealthy stock market tycoon vacationing off the shores of Spain with his girlfriend, Barbara, and their friends Vicki and Howard. Despite Paul's disturbing dreams about a carnivorous merma... More

Initial release date:

  • 2001

Directed by:

Rating:

R (USA)

Runtime:

  • 1 h 38 min

Produced by:

Screenplay by:

Also known as:

  • Dagon

Film

Directed by

Stuart Gordon

Stuart Gordon (born August 11, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is a director, writer and producer of films and plays. Most of Gordon's film work is in the horror genre, though he has also ventured into science fiction. Like his friend and fellow filmmaker Brian Yuzna, Gordon is a fan of H. P. Lovecraft...

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Release date(s):

Release Date Film release distribution medium
  • 2001
  • Jul 23, 2002
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Runtime:

  • 1 h 38 min
  • 1 h 35 min
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Estimated budget:

Currency Amount
  • 4,800,000

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Media

Adapted From

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November–December 1931, the story was first published in April 1936; this was the only fiction of Lovecraft's published during his lifetime that did not appear in a periodical. The story describes a young man's discovery of a...

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