I watched a bunch of Brian Yuzna and Stuart Gordon movies early on in this blog, and I really liked the Re-Animator series and Society and even The Dentist and other stuff they've done.
These two are a good selection of an unknown favorite because while they may not blow any one thing out of the water, they're above average in the low budget lesser-known side of things. They have a nice comedic timing and great effects, and the movies are minimal in scope so are often more fun than those that overreach. These guys know what kinda movies they're making, and that's ok.
Dagon is based on HP Lovecraft stuff, which almost instantly makes it contender for best HP adaption, cuz most of them pretty much suck. I might've read this HP book, or not. I read a 800-something page collection of his works, and I don't fucking remember.
In Dagon, a group of young people accidentally comes to a small fishing village when there's stormy water. Two of them, Paul and Barbara go to shore and Paul goes back to get the others on the boat to find they're no longer there. Then when he gets back to the village, Barbara is gone, and he's off to look for her. That night, a crowd of crazy fish people descend on him from everywhere in the village, eager to sacrifice him to their crazy fish god Dagon.
In short, this movie is what you need it to be. It's fast paced enough, dumb and whatever while not being trite. The main guy Paul is alone for the vast majority and it well acted enough to pull it off, and there's occassional nudity and other fun stuff to keep you from checking your phone.
This, like a lot of their stuff is well done B horror, and it need not rewrite the book, just have a great chapter. I give it a above average 3.5, though for it's ilk it's like a 4.
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