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The Lure (2015) - Drunk Monk - 04-25-2025
This is a polish take on The Little Mermaid. Only it’s a horror film with gratuitous topless sirens. And it’s a musical. Two mermaid sisters fall in with a three-piece house band for a strip joint. They join as back up singers, and rise quickly as the stars because they can sing and strip and they’ve got large eel tails. When in human form, they have no vaginas or anuses (graphically exposed). And they smell fishy. There’s some lovely surreal bits here, including a full scale song and dance number in a shopping mall, and lots of perkiness. It makes some major leaps that have to be accepted. The way that one mermaid gets her permanent legs was absurd and I started to reject it, but then I caught myself because it was a mermaid tale, after all.
I was engaged throughout because it went to some amusing and clever places. The adult spin on Hans Christian Andersen was sharp parody that I enjoyed. I’ve always found the mermaid/siren myths to be overly romanticized when they are so evil, drowning lonely sailors and all. There has been several other dark takes on mermaids and those work better for me.
Criterion had several deleted scenes too. One explained a scene that didn’t make sense after it was cut. Another had one sister combing the other sister’s hair with a fork (a Disney Easter egg). Being Polish, it had that gritty Eastern euro vibe, drenched in vodka and loneliness.
Only recommended for D00Mers who are into nasty mermaids.