"Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon returns to literary horror with Dagon, another H.P. Lovecraft adaptation that takes his trademark grisliness to Spain for a real fish-out-of-water yarn having to do with love, sex and demon worship... Despite the Lovecraftian pedigree, what we really have here is a cheap horror potboiler: Stuart Gordon's Attack of the Fish People. I swear that's not a bad thing... Given the downright conservative tone of most horror films lately, the ripping and raping that caps Dagon's leisurely build is itself startling. Replete with gore and nudity, the final reels make it to giddy exploitation territory." - Bryant Frazer, Deep Focus