Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Stevieboy666 Two attractive American woman, along with three locals, visit an old fortress off the coast of Serbia (or Montenegro). Bad news for them is that it is home to a killer mermaid & her human companion. UK title is Killer Mermaids, which implies that there will be several. However we only get one & we don't get to see much of her until near the end. Before that it plays out more like a slow slasher movie. Nice locations plus Franco Nero is in it but the movie is slow and unremarkable.

FlashCallahan Two American girls on vacation visit an old friend in Montenegro.While there, they decide to venture to an abandoned military fortress located on a remote island.During their time on the fortress they discover that someone else is on the island with them and he will stop at nothing to protect it's secrets.There is a something hidden beneath the island and it's not Aerial....Just what the world wanted, a hybrid of IKWYDLS mixed with the myth of the mermaid. But if your looking for lots of killer mermaid action like the cover suggests, skip to the last ten minutes, and then prepare to be disappointed.If you are looking for a film featuring deplorable characters where the males are seduced by song, and two old men hold a grudge for each other, whilst being chased around an old building, this is for you.Never has a film been more deceptive with it's actual plot than this. We get a few kills with a harpoon type weapon, Django in a fisherman's cloak warning the group in the best Scooby Doo reference i've seen since Wayne's World.It's a pretty tepid affair, the acting is below par, and other than Nero actually making an effort with the terrible script, there really is nothing worth mentioning.Unless you really like to be deceived.

Seth_Rogue_One For a movie called "Killer Mermaid" this has surprisingly very little mermaid action in it, it takes an hour before the promised killer mermaid action actually starts (unless you count the beginning teaser).In the first 30 minutes or so it still kept my interest a bit, a lot having to do with the beautiful Serbia Monetenegro landscape that I haven't really seen in a movie before.The characters also feels a little more three-dimensional than the usual 2d stereotypes that cheap creature features like this usually offers.Not that any of the characters are all that interesting tho and once the action does start in the second half the clichés starts piling up.The acting is okay although the accents get a little distracting from time to time and make the dialog sound unnatural for most of the cast.It's not the worst movie I've seen or anything but it's not particularly good either, if you're looking for a mermaid horror movie I suggest SHE CREATURE (2001) instead.

metalrage666 I didn't know much about this before picking it up cheap, and I did shy away a little due to the alternate title "Killer Mermaid", but this turned out to be not too bad.Movie starts with a guy and his girlfriend riding around on a motorbike, who then stop by the waters edge for some kinky fun. Before things go to far the guy seemingly in a trance just walks to the edge of the pier and ends up in the water, and apparently drowns. His girlfriend panics and screams for help when a stranger walks up and using what looks like a home-made grappling hook shuts her up real quick and drags her off.Scene then switches to 2 friends on vacation who hook up with a local guy and his girlfriend for some relaxed fun of boating and swimming, even though one of them is terrified of the water. While out boating one day, one of them notices a small island, Mamula island, and is interested in going there to explore. Apparently the island is no longer equipped to take larger boats and is not an official tourist attraction. They decide to go another day when they have a small inflatable with them to make is easier to get ashore. They are overheard making plans to go there and an older man warns them not to venture there, but of course if that happens, there's no movie.Accompanying them is another random male friend and they set about exploring the island. Not too long after they arrive they notice another older man that they have seen previously on the mainland, pouring what looks like buckets of blood and body parts down into a well. They decide to leave the island but it's too late, their inflatable boat was shot and sunk and now they are being hunted. The race is on for them to find another way off the island.While trying to escape a couple of them discover that there is a girl, (the mermaid) trapped in a cell. The mermaid, or siren only affects men and at various times, the 2 guys go into a trance like state and are determined to get to the source of the siren song, which the women in the group cannot hear. This was their method of luring men to their deaths. The mermaid presents herself as a rather good looking young woman albeit with a fish tail, however when she's about to kill she transforms into a hideous monster with razor sharp teeth.Turns out that a Nazi contingent who were on the island discovered the mermaid and after killing most of them, she fell in love with one of the 2 remaining soldiers. Since that time he has been killing people for her and feeding them to her. 2 members of the the group manage to get away by making use of an underground tunnel which surfaces into an abandoned submarine base.The surviving 2 manage to get rescued by the man who first warned them not to go there who also happens to be the other former Nazi survivor and he helps get them to the mainland. The Mermaid however has tracked them down and attacks them before she ends up being killed. The film ends on a cliff-hanger as the end scene has many of the mermaids "sisters" on their way to get revenge.The movie is not too bad for a modern day horror but it's not without its flaws and moments of silliness that seems to plague horror movies. The 2nd world war ended 70 years ago and at best these 2 remaining Nazis would be in their late eighties if not their nineties and in no real condition to be killing anyone, but this isn't the case. The killer on the island is using a rifle with manual loaded cartridges which take some time to effectively remove the spent cartridges, re-load, aim and shoot and none of the group use that time to attack him. Even though the inflatable boat is sunk, both guys are strong swimmers and could easily swim to the launch moored offshore, but instead they run back into the fortress and inevitably get lost.Despite the "R" rating, there isn't as much blood and gore in this as you'd expect. It has its moments but there is nothing out of the ordinary with the violence. And despite the title there is very little killing actually done by the mermaid herself. The film is a little slow to start but I guess that is to try and develop the characters somewhat, but in any case you still don't care for any of them. Possibly the best things in this are the locations themselves. The fortress is real and Mamula island is real and was used as a concentration camp during the war where experiments were performed, so it does add to the eeriness. Overall it's not a bad movie and while the story is certainly not new, the effects are not too bad for what appears to be a mid-budget movie. It's worth a look at least once.