Even with its obvious budgetary limitations, the strength of the source material results in an eerie and unique adaptation.

The only reason this review describes "Dagon" as "one of the scariest movies ever made," instead of as "the scariest movie ever made," is because I haven't seen every film.

Gordon knows what his audience wants, and time and again he proves a deft hand at giving it to them.

For our money, Dagon is very possibly the best Lovecraft movie produced so far (we're overlooking Carpenter's underrated In The Mouth of Madness because that was only tentatively inspired by Lovecraft's mythos).