DAGON [2001] DD.5.1 Subs FIN SWE DivX *DM*

DAGON 2001 DvdRip and Subs all ripped/encoded by me.



DVD................. Retail PAL Dvd

Audio............... English DD 5.1 AC3 (original. not compressed)

Resolution.......... 656x368 (16/9 Full Frame Widescreen)

Bitrate............. 1 099 kbps

Subtitles........... external FIN SWE (.srt) or watch without !

Standalone Dvd Player support......... Yes. And subs too



NOTEZ: For the last 4 days i have been experimenting more and diving deeper into the Divx 6.8 pro-codecs depths. And here are the results for you to judge. Extremely slow multipass vbr encodings and INSANE QTY settings (Dual-Core CPU took 4-5 hours to make this encoding!). I don't believe that i can achieve any better quality than this with this codec.

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Curious real-world (historical) facts (from Wikipedia):



DAGON - Fish-god tradition



Rashi records a tradition that the name Dagôn is related to Hebrew dag/dâg 'fish' and that Dagon was imagined in the shape of a fish: compare the Babylonian fish-god Oannes. In the thirteenth century David Kimhi interpreted the odd sentence in (Bible) 1 Samuel 5.2–7 that "only Dagon was left to him" to mean "only the form of a fish was left", adding: "It is said that Dagon, from his navel down, had the form of a fish (whence his name, Dagon), and from his navel up, the form of a man, as it is said, his two hands were cut off." The Septuagint text of 1 Samuel 5.2–7 (Bible) says that both the arms and the legs of the image of

Dagon were broken off.



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32 out of 43 people found the following comment useful :-

There's something fishy in Imboca!, 31 January 2005

10/10

Author: Brandt Sponseller from New York City



Based on two short stories ("Dagon" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth") by horror author H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon tells the story of Paul Marsh (Ezra Godden), who has just made a bundle of money from stocks. While vacationing on a small boat with his girlfriend, Barbara (Raquel Merono), and an older couple, they run into trouble off the coast of a seemingly deserted, small Spanish fishing town of Imboca. Paul and his Barbara make it to shore to look for help, but things turn from bad to worse as they discover the town's evil secrets.



This is director Stuart Gordon's third Lovecraft related film, after Re-Animator (1985) and From Beyond (1986). All were also at least co-produced by Brian Yuzna and co-written by Dennis Paoli. While I can't say Dagon is the best, it is just as good, finishing as a solid 10 out of 10 for me.



What really puts Dagon over the top early on is the incredible atmosphere that Gordon achieves from the beginning of the film. We see a prologue of sorts with Marsh diving beneath the ocean, coming across bizarre, creepy ruins, and finally running into a beautiful mermaid who just happens to have a set of shark teeth. This turns out to be a dream, but shortly after, it gets even better when our heroes spot the deserted Spanish town and the ominous weather that's quickly approaching.



By the time Paul begins exploring the spooky town, I wanted to spend an eternity there. It has all the atmosphere of Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's superb Delicatessen (1991), with the addition of creepy, freakish townspeople. The more we learn about everything, the more strange it becomes, until we're finally in the middle of a nightmare that seems like a melding of Federico Fellini, David Cronenberg and Frank Henenlotter--we get visceral horror, captivating dark fantasy, and beautiful surrealism. There couldn't be a much more exquisite mix for my tastes. Don't miss this one.



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