The Lure (2015)
Directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.
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The Lure is, at heart, a dark, wild riff on Hans Christian Andersen’s original The Little Mermaid crossed with a vampire/monster movie, especially once Gold begins enticing innocent men and women—mermaids being bisexual, apparently—to their lustful doom.
Like a retro-disco nightmare after eating too much seafood and watching “The Little Mermaid,” the Polish whatchamacallit “The Lure” is a woozily entrancing mash-up, shimmying by itself in the corner of the horror-musical canon and sure to earn quizzically appreciative stares from genre enthusiasts.
Eat your heart out, Hans Christian Andersen – this is my kind of “The Little Mermaid” adaptation.
Working from a screenplay by Robert Bolesto, Smoczynska has crafted a horror romance, a pop musical and coming-of-age wild ride, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” and the dance-hall restaurants popular in communist-era Eastern Europe.
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 mermaids have legs on land, but as in Ron Howard's Splash, they sprout fins when doused with water.
The Genetic Opera , in which director Darren Lynn Bousman of Saw II , III , and IV fame brought the worlds of nonconsensual organ transplants and operatic pseudo-metal together.