The Mermaid's Curse (2019) User Reviews (6)

UGH!

[kirachloe · 2/10 · 19 May 2023]

The opportunity was there for a good movie, but execution sucked.

My biggest marker go-to for the quality of a movie is this script ... this one was just "so-so". Could have been better, could have been a LOT better. I guess they didn't want to spend the small dollars up front to make a barely acceptable script into a really good script, and then hope the actors and director can make it better.

OK, the acting was OK-ish. A few were even good, but sadly for several roles I have seen much better in community theaters.

The directing and scene shots were also so-so at best. Probably better than many low budgets where, as an example, the director and cinematographer think every facile shot has to be zoomed ... thanks for that. But here's a simple hint to cheaply go up at least a point in rating ... BUY A TRIPOD. Every time you think it is waste of time to properly setup a shot, like a simple interior shot, and the audience has to deal with a bouncing handheld camera, you essentially tell the audience 'you aren't worth my time to do this correctly'. UGH. Go back to class.

What's in these waters shouldn't be messed with.

[mark.waltz · 2/10 · 10 April 2022]

That's the one true intelligent line in this way below mediocre British horror movie that seems to have them straight to video and is just repulsive from the start. It shows a bunch of aroused men being approached by women with scarred faces that hides their beauty, and all of a sudden becoming something close to lunch. These are not mermaids allegedly but sirens, and they are silent creatures who seemed to feed off the blood of horny men and the women who love them to their regret.

An investigative reporter discovers that his roommate has slept with his girlfriend and kicks him out, and while the roommate is wandering on the beach, comes across one of these creatures, brings the scarred and silent female back to the flat he's being evicted from. The next thing you know, she's violently attacking his neck, and you can hear the bones being cracked. The opening scene on the beach is even more graphic with the girlfriend of the first male victim literally having every bone in her shoulder and above twisted and broken. When she finally falls to the ground, she's still twisting as if having a broken neck wouldn't be enough to kill her.

What could have been a moderately interesting and mystical horror movie becomes a modernized version of 50's drive-in movies like "The She Creature" and "Wasp Woman". All it needed was a beautiful art deco poster that exaggerated the actual quality of the movie. The male characters outside of the rejected roommates all seem to be written to be extremely stupid, and the non-siren females all speak with an annoying vocal fry. I give the writer and director credited for trying something different, but it is done in a very lame way. I easily could have skipped this one and not regretted it.

Apparently YIFY has two different movies mixed up

[phuckracistgop · 1/10 · 2 March 2024]

What I saw was Vodyanaya a Russian movie about Tatar folklore about two children who's mother was taken by an ominous lake spirit and not the English movie The Mermaid's Curse.

I was about to find "The Mermaid's Curse" on YouTube and it's started as bad as the other reviews stated. In fact after the first couple on the beach celebrating their anniversary suffered the typical stereotyped nonsense of the girl walking up on the dude being eaten and stayed long enough for him to fall on her.

So she does actually escape the first time, but as I said "SOS different day" she gets back to the car, but now it doesn't start. Next the dude who hasn't died yet makes it to the car, and she temporarily does the right thing by keeping the doors locked.

That doesn't last long, because the brain damaged zero common sense female character opens the door and gets out crouching by the dead dude.

So the Mermaid reappears and instead of getting back in the car and trying to start it again. Dumber than a brick decides to hide behind a knee wall. Needless to say, death number two within the first 12 to 15 minutes of the movie.

So get ready for a lot of stupid people making the absolutely worst decisions possible.

Did we watch the same movie?

[imsharkbait · 8/10 · 4 September 2023]

I dunno if I watched the same movie because the movie I watched was in Russian and was about a mother going back to the village she grew up in after her father passes and is taken by the Water Witch. Witches of the Water I think it was called but the movie cover was The Mermaid's Curse.

It wasn't bad per se but we never learned why the Water Witch took the mother in the first place. There was mention of a comb being stolen but it wasn't really stolen, unless her mother stole it. Long story short, the mother inherited jewelry from her dead mother.

On top of that, the village is like 100% muslim which I thought was very strange. Overall, it gets an 8 out of 10 from this horror fan because the Water Witch was creepy looking.

Good Movie

[igalaxystar · 10/10 · 19 June 2021]

Gone fishing, no wait! It's about a Mermaid seduces guys and for the kill. Not so friendly mermaid I guess. Somebody needs to tame her, haha!

Beware the siren's call

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 9 March 2022]

Journalist Jake (a fine performance by Tom Hendryk) falls for a beautiful woman (a mesmerizing portrayal by the stunning Rebecca Finch) who he meets on the beach. Turns out said woman is actually a sea siren and getting involved with her has dangerous consequences.

Director Louisa Warren relates the compelling story at a steady pace, ably crafts a supremely spooky seaside atmosphere, makes nice use of the coastal setting, and stages the bloody attack scenes with verve. The solid acting from the capable cast keeps this movie humming: Tony Manders as crazy, yet wise old sea salt Mr. Andrews, Nina Jay as Jake's worried ex-girlfriend Charlotte, Kate Lush as equally concerned fellow writer Patsy, and Mark Sears as ill-fated horndog Mike. The uncompromisingly grim and tragic ending packs a startling punch. A neat little flick.