the two mermaids: hissing and singing and chewing on human body parts
me with my camera out: you're doing amazing sweeties

........ this mermaid really went through all That just so she could bang a knock off evan peters huh ............ 

ok wait i was about to post this but then i remembered that 3 years ago i made out with a dude at a party just because he looked like a knock off evan peters in the dark so i really can’t judge 😩

a gorgeously shot Polish goth musical about homicidal teen mermaids hired to sing at a nightclub. obviously essential.

fun fact: i watched this on ambien and spent most of the following day thinking that it was a dream i had. only after someone mentioned that they were going to a press screening of "the mermaid movie" did it click for me like at the end of The Usual Suspects. (i watched it again)

WAP

everything grimes wishes she was

Imagine if Gaspar Noé and (the late) Andrzej Zulawski collaborated on a remake of “The Little Mermaid” and you’ll have a faint idea of what to expect from Agnieszka Smoczynska’s “The Lure,” a wonderfully demented new musical that bridges the gap between Hans Christian Andersen and Nine Inch Nails.

The fun begins in Communist-era Poland, where a mopey young musician named Mietek (Jakub Gierszal) stands by the waters of Warsaw and strums a folksy lament. If Mietek doesn’t seem all that surprised when two comely sea sirens pop their heads out of the surf and sing a reply (promising not to eat him, natch), perhaps that’s because he’s a little tipsy — given the strange energy that pumps through Smoczynska’s film from start to finish, it won’t be long before you know just how he feels.

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Why couldn't she be the other kind of mermaid, with the fish part on the top and the lady part on the bottom?

Eh, no big deal, just your run-of-the-mill adults-only Polish mermaid sex musical.

me: loves men getting eaten up, lesbianism, mermaids and iconic songs

The Lure (2015):
me: NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTT

not the revival of h2O that i was expecting

it's weird that so many people called this goth, it came off as bright disco/pop/eurotrash horror, do i not understand what goth is? is it different now? this is too pretty and turquoise to be goth? just because a mermaid eats people doesn't make the whole thing goth? right? anyway aside from a chunk in the middle that i did not care for at all i liked this a lot, the polish song lyrics are beautiful but translate to simplistic and not very poetic english and that weirdly kept me from feeling like this had some way complicated metaphors underneath the obvious ones that i was missing. there's...a lot going on but it's basically about how men are dumb and want to have sex with sexy fish but are too uptight to admit it to themselves so they take out their internal disgust on the sexy fish. just go for it bro!

The Polish Lesbian Mermaid Horror Musical That Captivated Sundance

The first half worked better for me than the second. It’s almost like that strangeness from the blend of music, colors and overall genre disappeared halfway and it became more artistically ambiguous. Definitely an interesting watch though.

Someone had to eat that loser

A strange but very interesting take on mermaids. I loved everything about it. I love how it is like strange, crazy, gruesome horror and lot's 80’s music.

i thought i knew what i was getting into but that was some twisted shit

Oh what, y'all thought I WASN'T gonna love a 1980s Polish horror-musical based on the original fairytale version of The Little Mermaid?

i’ve seen the light and it’s shining in an 80s polish nightclub.

I had high expectations for this one going in and it is better than I could've ever imagined.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Is this my favorite horror flick? Maybe! A+ eurovision style music numbers, the body horror was so good, the tone was gloomy as hell. Overall a super creative retelling of this (already pretty fucked up) fairy tale.

reel cool fish but its like Splash x 2

Threw this one back in the water!!

I have never been so disappointed. On paper, this is everything I love: a gaudy, gothy, genrebending musical about murderous mermaids.
But it's extremely underwritten, like the filmmakers thought up the brilliant premise but never found anywhere to go with it. The musical segments, while beautifully executed seem bloated and without meaning.
Pissed as hell that I didn't love it!