2018 · horror · fantasy · romance
The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead
Directed by Svyatoslav Podgaevsky1h 27m2018
An evil Mermaid falls in love with Marina's fiancé Roman and aims to keep him away from Marina in her Kingdom of Death under water. The Mermaid is a young woman who drowned a few centuries ago. 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.
Our read: The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead (2018) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded horror · fantasy · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured horror / fantasy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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