Siren (2016) Director: Gregg Bishop
Yes, yes, i know, this is a low-budget indie horror,
shot in just 18 days, and it may be slightly trashy .... BUT that's
the point!
That's why it doesn't follow any of the rules and why it's so deliriously
enjoyable. Great fun it is.
A Creature horror about a mythical beast, The Siren, here a shape-shifter
who murders and eats men, after singing to them.
But, it's also a love story of some deranged sort ... who knew that
Sirens mates for life?
Hannah Fierman goes full-throttle in the role as the Siren and her make-up
looks great. A great script and an earlier short film
from 2012 - Amateur Night, with Fierman as Lily, is the basis for Siren.
The short was featured in the 2012 anthology V/H/S.
- See more below about Amateur Night and V/H/S.
As i've written here many times before i'm a sucker
for horror films based on myths about sirens and mermaids, and i really
liked
the Serbian film Mamula/Nymph, or the 2014 Spring, Curtis Harrington's
1961 Night Tide with Dennis Hopper,
and the 2015 Polish Corki dancingu i haven't seen yet but i guess it's
interesting at least. Let's not forget Amando de Ossorio's
Las Garras de Lorelei about the Siren at her cliff in the river Rhine.
Well, i like creature horrors in general, as the mythical gorgon
Medusa and the very, very obscure Greek film Medousa from 1998 and the
ditto animated Argentinian 2004 short Gorgonas.
Warning! Possible SPOILERS below
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Hannah Fierman has that slightly odd look with the
eyes that could be disturbing and give you the shivers
In the films intro a strange man with a cowboy hat enters
a church where someone or something has slaughtered a bunch of
people. He's Mr. Nyx (Justin Welborn) and he's not a CSI staff, he's
looking for supernatural things for his nightclub.
Then, another place, another time. Jonah (Chase Williamson)
is about to marry and his brother and 2 best friends are taking
him to a bachelor party at a strip club. They drink a lot and pop some
mushrooms and then they follow a man who will guide
them to a place with really hot girls. A strange stripclub with an even
stranger audience, and the owner Mr. Nyx promises
Jonah something very special, Lily. Locked in a room with a window she
sings for him and he experiences sensual sensations
beyond everything he has earlier known. However, he worries about Lily
and decides to free her from her prison cell ....
" I like You"
Hot Bestial Sex
Ha, ha, lucky guy, or not. I just love the funny ending
and it breaks the rules of how a normal genre film would end.
This film is made on a shoestring budget but luckily Hannah Fierman
has these unusual eyes that makes the cheap make-up
to work. Is she doomed to forever play the role of some beast in the
future?
This film is feature film version of the short film
Amateur Night from the 2012 horror anthology V/H/S and Hannah Fierman
also played the role of Lily there. Amateur Night was the crowd favorite
in that collection.
This US DVD in anamorphic widescreen 1.78:1 with english audio 5.1 and
english subs. Bare bones edition, no extras
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V/H/S (2012) The Amateur Night short Director:
David Bruckner
This 2012 horror anthology got a lot of positive reviews
and was followed by sequels. V/H/S had 5 different story short films
and
a frame story presenting them, with a bunch of unlikeable creeps breaking
into a villa with a dead man in a room with monitors
and a lot of VHS tapes lying around. These shitty fuckers has to watch
the tapes to find the right one, and we get to see 5 short
films of varying quality and 3 of them were not that good but 2 of them
were great, and the first one - Amateur Night the best.
1. Amateur Night direction: David Bruckner, 2. Second
Honeymoon direction: Ti West, 3. Tuesday the 17th direction: Glenn
McQuaid, 4. The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily when She was Young,
5. 10/31/98 direction: Radio Silence
LILY - "I LIKE YOU"
Amateur Night
Three annoying and misogynistic guys (are laughing annoyingly
but are luckily about to die) are having a night out drinking at a
bar, and they pick up 2 girls, Lisa and Lily, taking them to a hotel
room. Shane and Patrick are 2 very unlikeable dudes and Clint
the nice guy. When Shane is having sex with Lily he quickly realizes
that Lily are in complete control and that she's not human.
This short was unforgettable due to the GREAT Hannah
Fierman, HER EYES, to the direction and a fine story, and it was well
deserved a longer version in the 2016 Siren. Also, the 10/31/98 VHS
short about a lost Halloween party and a demon was good
V/H/S was presented by UK Momentum Pictures in anamorphic
widescreen 1.78:1 and with english audio DD 5.1 or 2.0 with
english subtitles, region 2. Extras: Alternative ending, trailer, Behind
the scenes, Helen Rogers interview, Simon Barrett
interview and outtakes from Tuesday the 17th
