October 22 - Dagon

Inspired by the H. P. Lovecraft novels, this particular movie takes the "squid-like" descriptions of the "Great Old Ones" from those novels and goes one step further. Two couples are sailing along the coast of Spain when a sudden storm wrecks the boat against the reef. The older couple are injured and stay aboard the barely floating sailboat, and the younger couple head to shore in the liferaft to try and get some help.

The little town of Imboca seems deserted, but the couple find a priest just as the storm begins to intensify. Leading him to the docks, the priest helps them find a friendly fishermen to take the man out to the wreck while the woman stays ashore to find the police. The man gets to the wrecked sailboat, but there's no trace of the older couple. Heading back to town, he heads to the hotel, where the priest says the woman is going to call him. But what few townsfolk he can find in the steady rains are acting very oddly...

There's no werewolves, vampires or undead in this movie, but it's still a monster movie nonetheless. I don't want to spoil anything in the movie, because it's pretty good. Solid B-movie acting, nudity, monsters, ancient demons, you really can't go wrong with this one. The atmosphere in the movie is awesome. It really sucks you in from beginning to end.

I first saw this movie on SciFi (SyFy now) amazingly enough, and of course they deleted the nude scenes and blurred half the movie, but hey, it was good enough for me to order it on DVD anyway! :-D Seen it a few times now and it's still pretty good.

Interestingly enough, this movie was done by the same people that made Reanimator, and although I'd have loved to watch and review that movie before this one, I seem to have misplaced my copy of it. In case you don't know, Reanimator was set at the imaginary Miskatonic University, and the main hero of this movie wears a sweatshirt for almost the entire movie that says MISKATONIC on it, which I thought was funny.

Full moon tonight! Werewolves must be out prowling. ;-)