Access in-development titles not available on IMDb. Get the latest news from leading industry trades. Toggle navigation. The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead - iflixmovies. Victoria Agalakova. Efim Petrunin. Nikita Elenev. Sesil Plezhe. Sofya Shidlovskaya. Igor Khripunov. Dariya Yartseva. Dmitry Yartsev. The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead directed by Svyatoslav. Marina only has one week to overcome her fear of the dark water, to remain human in the deathly fight with the monsters and not to become one herself.
Access in-development titles not available on IMDb. Get the latest news from leading industry trades. Heck, she doesn't ever have a tail, which I think is the bare minimum to qualify as a mermaid. However, this doesn't mean the film isn't worth seeking out. Quite the contrary, the girl - Lisa Grigorieva - is an aquatic creature from the Russian folklore, so her background story and particularities are probably more original than any other horror movie about mermaids and sea sirens with the exception of "The Lorlei's Grasp", that is a brilliant film.
The plot is intriguing, for sure. Shortly before their wedding, a young couple threatens to be torn apart by the interference of a mysterious water nymph who lures the boy - Roma Kitaev - to his family's lakeside vacationing house and seduces him with her gentle whispers and supernatural powers.
The nymph's slowly unraveling backstory is great, and while the lead characters are amiable. So far for the strong points. Unfortunately, the makers of "Mermaid: Lake of the Dead" still believe the best way to make a horror film is to stuff it with jump scare moments and hideous digital effects.
What they have here is a potentially atmospheric and petrifying concept, but they choose to throw in a sudden scare or a nasty face every couple of minutes. None of the BOO-moments have an effect, resulting in a chaotic and infantile second half and climax that easily could have been much better. I don't know if it's the scares themselves or because i watched it dubbed and not in Russian ,, but it kinda felt overdone ,, A lot of scares ,, i mean the graphics and cinematography are good but there were so many jumpy moments by the end of the movie the scares felt like just any other normal scene.
The plot is semi-genuine, somewhat familiar,, the casting as of the Russian cast looked fine , but as i said sadly all the engagement and interaction thrill factors are lost when you watch it dubbed to English. So i would say it's not highly recommended, especially not in English. While the Russian folklore angle is interesting and refreshing, the pacing and the action are kinda caotic and there are too many plot twists that don't really help the cause.
The movie had a mythology that could be more explored, but moves on without explications, hide too much the "mermaid" and she don't scare as well, although, had some technics that works pretty great, the characters aren't explored and some times stay boring, the twist in end is ok, and the song of the credits is amazing! NerdBat 23 June So we in the western world see mermaids as beautiful sea women who have the tail of a fish. Keep in mind that this is a foreign film, and the mermaids of Russian and Ukrainian lore are not the same as what we know.
The film has a decent plot but there isn't exactly a lot of logic behind it. The "mermaid" is more like a ghost, because the woman died centuries ago so now it's a spirit I guess? Being a Russian film, the dubbing is pretty atrocious. It's almost laughable that they don't even attempt to try and match the mouths with the words.
In all its a decent late night flick, but not one you wanna watch more than once. That's right, folks! It's bad movie night with the wife and I. This pick from Play stations movie vault, The Mermaid :Lake of the dead. The acting was good, the story was a bit of a stretch, thinking that aren't Mermaid usually in the sea? Not a lake? But I digress. Moving on, during the movie, I started to notice that the words were not syncing with the lips and I'm like what the hell?
I hopped on my phone and discovered I'm not a huge fan of subtitles and you really can't hardly tell. I liked this movie, and I think you will too. Lol this was pretty f-in stupid not scary and horror made for 12 year olds. Because this way to make horror movies is boring and almost predictable. Psichological thriller would fit better if not because of the 3 or 4 jumpscares, wich by the way are not scary.
Either way, it not fitting the conventional hollywood horror movie standards made it somehow passable and a bit interesting. Also, there are no mermaids at all, keep this in mind, Rusalka is a russian ghost or something like that.
This movie was so DUMB! This was one of the most ridiculous and useless movies that I've seen in awhile. The plot was, "Oh wait! What was the plot? It started with really great mythology and fantasy, but end up with just a boring fantasy with many plot holes and bad acting.
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