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Dagon

Stuart Gordon

USA2001 94minmin 35mm Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

Based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Paul and his lovely girlfriend Barbara are celebrating the success of their new dot.com company with Howard, their wealthy investor and his wife Vicki on Howard's two-mast yacht off the Glician coast of Spain. Their idyll is shattered when their sailboat crashes on a reef, trapping Vicki below deck and Paul and Barbara must go to the nearest town for help.

Diretor

Stuart Gordon

In 1985, winning the Critics’ Award in the Cannes Film Festival, he surprised audiences with his feature film Re-Animator. He solidified his notoriety in the horror genre with From Beyond (1986). His subsequent directing credits include Dolls (1987), Robotjox (1990), Fortress (1993), and Space Truckers (1998). In 1999 he directed The wonderful Ice cream shit which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Best Direction award at the Fantafestival in Rome.