Scariest part


Dunno about you guys but the ending where Paul(Pablo) and Uxia swim into that eye into that abyss is the scariest part for me. But, to be honest it also makes me curious to see whats in there! do any of H.P. Lovecrafts books describe whats down there or do we have to imagine?

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Firstly, three years late, sorry. I just today saw Dagon myself.

If I remember correctly Lovecraft describes the underwater kingdom/city in the story Shadow Over Innsmouth but, like usually, he isn't too specific with the details. More like painting the atmosphere and the feel of the place while using terms like "cyclopean architecture" and describing the place as being aeons old etc.

Personally I feel that Lovecraft's style of describing things and at the same time not describing things is a bit paradoxical in a way. At the same time I would love to hear (and see) what these places look like, to the smallest of detail (be it the underwater realm of Shadow Over Innsmouth/Dagon or the city of the Elder Beings in At The Mountains of Madness) but then again, I feel that if those places were to be described in the fullest of detail, something crucial would be lost. It's like something is scary that is unseen and unknown but once you shine a light at it and see for what it is, it becomes less scary.

For this reason I've had mixed thoughts about the possibility of Guillermo Del Toro directing the movie adaptation of At The Mountains of Madness. He is a visionary director, there is no doubt about that but no matter how cool and interesting the visuals for the movie would be, it could perhaps never live up to what your mind makes up while reading the story. And I would so like to see what lies beyond the mountains that made one of the characters insane but at the same time I'm not sure if anything "man made", no matter how imaginative, could convey what Lovecraft wrote in his book (and what he left for the imagination of the reader).

Also, just a personal note about Dagon: I feel this anxiety every time I see those kinds of massive structures that are both unnaturally big for humans to build as well as unnaturally geometric for nature to form. Something really creepy yet exciting about those things.

Sorry, I went on rambling about stuff that you didn't even ask but anyways... :)

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nah its cool! at least you responded :P I'm glad I'm not the only one weirded out by the structures. By the way, I heard that mountain movie was cancelled?

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As far as I know it is either cancelled or put on infinite hold (basically the same thing I suppose). I think Del Toro directed some other movies in order to get the studio to back him on the project, sort of "make us money first and then we'll discuss the Mountains again" kind of deal. But it seems that Del Toro is having some bad luck since not only was Mountains put on hold/cancelled but also the Silent Hills game he was meant to co-develop with Hideo Kojima and Norman Reedus was dropped. While I'm not sure if Mountains even can be made into a movie that could pull off the story, I think that the only director capable of doing so would be Del Toro.

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