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  Review by Lucy ★★★★ 8

  the two mermaids: hissing and singing and chewing on human body parts
  me with my camera out: you're doing amazing sweeties

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  Review by Hari Nef 4

  WAP

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 2

  a gorgeously shot Polish goth musical about homicidal teen mermaids hired to sing at a nightclub. obviously essential.

  fun fact: i watched this on ambien and spent most of the following day thinking that it was a dream i had. only after someone mentioned that they were going to a press screening of "the mermaid movie" did it click for me like at the end of The Usual Suspects. (i watched it again)

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  Review by Tasha Robinson ★★★½ 5

  Eh, no big deal, just your run-of-the-mill adults-only Polish mermaid sex musical.

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  Review by lauren ★★★★½ 2

  not the revival of h2O that i was expecting

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  Review by sophie ★★★½

  mermaids: *eat men*
  me: there is no way this could be more specifically tailored to my tastes if it tried
  mermaids: *start to sing*
  me: oh my god

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★ 3

  Why couldn't she be the other kind of mermaid, with the fish part on the top and the lady part on the bottom?

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  Review by iana ★★★★½

  The Polish Lesbian Mermaid Horror Musical That Captivated Sundance

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 3

  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 fun begins in Communist-era Poland, where a mopey young musician named Mietek (Jakub Gierszal) stands by the waters of Warsaw and strums a folksy lament. If Mietek doesn’t seem all that surprised when two comely sea sirens pop their heads out of the surf and sing a reply (promising not to eat him, natch), perhaps that’s because he’s a little tipsy — given the strange energy that pumps through Smoczynska’s film from start to finish, it won’t be long before you know just how he feels.

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  Review by sydney ★★★½ 2

  it's weird that so many people called this goth, it came off as bright disco/pop/eurotrash horror, do i not understand what goth is? is it different now? this is too pretty and turquoise to be goth? just because a mermaid eats people doesn't make the whole thing goth? right? anyway aside from a chunk in the middle that i did not care for at all i liked this a lot, the polish song lyrics are beautiful but translate to simplistic and not very poetic english and that weirdly kept me from feeling like this had some way complicated metaphors underneath the obvious ones that i was missing. there's...a lot going on but it's basically about how men are dumb and want to have sex with sexy fish but are too uptight to admit it to themselves so they take out their internal disgust on the sexy fish. just go for it bro!

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  Review by Sarah ★★★★½ 1

  me: loves men getting eaten up, lesbianism, mermaids and iconic songs

  The Lure (2015):
  me: NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTT

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  Review by emma katharine ★★★½ 3

  feel like when someone says "80s stylized polish bisexual mermaid horror musical" you probably know how you're going to feel about it