This mermaid movie is a mish-mash of various legends with some vampire-lore and ALIEN left-overs thrown in. Top it off with a mumbo-jumbo introduction about the idea that the Queen is the most powerful creature of all.
The mermaid is beautiful -- when she is a mermaid -- but when she turns into the "Queen," for some reason she has a flat chest. Add some telepathy between two empathic women, some lesbian hints, and a slow-moving plot -- well, we get lots of atmosphere which doesn't really pay off.
The film seemed more an exercise in horror FX and mood than a genuine monster movie, but considering it seems to be modeled on monster flicks of the 1950s, I guess the film-makers hit their mark. If there are to be more films in the series, I would hope the creators of the films go into more of the lure and enchantment of the mermaid instead of using a mermaid merely as a stand-in for some other kind of monster.
The mermaid is beautiful -- when she is a mermaid -- but when she turns into the "Queen," for some reason she has a flat chest. Add some telepathy between two empathic women, some lesbian hints, and a slow-moving plot -- well, we get lots of atmosphere which doesn't really pay off.
The film seemed more an exercise in horror FX and mood than a genuine monster movie, but considering it seems to be modeled on monster flicks of the 1950s, I guess the film-makers hit their mark. If there are to be more films in the series, I would hope the creators of the films go into more of the lure and enchantment of the mermaid instead of using a mermaid merely as a stand-in for some other kind of monster.