Genre: Horror/Fantasy
Director: Robert Eggers
Writer: Ben Collins
Prequel to The Creature
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Luke Evans, Amanda Seyfried, Sam Claflin, Alexandra Daddario, Riley Keough, Olivia Munn, Dylann Minnette, Ian McShane, Josh Stewart
Plot: The story is set in Scotland, where some people think they have seen strange creatures like beautiful girls swimming in the water. These people are not believed by others and defined as crazy. One day one of these people, a fisherman named Sullivan (Josh Stewart), was approached by a businessman named Mr. Woolrich (Ian McShane) who asked to tell the story. Sullivan says that during a trip he found a series of small islands not marked on the maps and at night his boat was attacked by strange creatures with long hair with the appearance of young girls, he was the only survivor despite the sinking his boat. It was found on a piece of wood a few days later by a large ship that passed. Woolrich seems entranced and confides in Sullivan that he wants to capture one of these creatures. Sullivan, terrified, does not want to follow Mr.Woolrich and shows the businessman where the place where he was attacked should be attached. Mr. Woolrich gives Sullivan a golden coin as a reward.
Mr. Woolrich sends a team to those places, including his son Sam (Taylor Kitsch). Sam was very skeptical and before leaving he had a fight with his father because he believed that the trip was useless and that the sightings were just hallucinations caused by hunger and thirst.
In the first days of travel, the trip seems to be going well, the weather was good and the crew was very playful and in a good mood. After a few days the boat arrives near the "Forbidden Islands" and a crew member named Alan (Luke Evans) tells the captain that he thinks the situation is very strange and that they will have to pay attention. Sam still tells Alan that he does not have to worry, no animal will destroy their ship.
The first day near the islands was quiet, only the dolphins and even a whale in the distance were spotted. During the night the first events began. While Sam was in his booth, he heard Alan and Rallen (Sam Claflin), Sam's deputy captain, speak animatedly. Sam came running and said that all the maps had disappeared and the cabin was untidy. At that moment, Brooks (Dylan Minnette), a young sailor, rushes into the frightened cabin and says he saw something jump off the ship. So the four men are arguing they heard noises in the water and the screams of the other crew members. They rushed to the bow of the ship, but no one remained, only silence. Brooks has a panic crisis and is sedated and brought to rest.
At dawn, Sam saw that many devices had been tampered with, including the engine. The only hope was now that Mr. Woolrich, having no more news sent by his son would send a recovery team. During the day nothing happened, except that occasionally female laughter could be heard coming from the water and so the survivors decided to hide all the food supplies.
With the arrival of the evening, with the darkness, the laughter became incessant and frightening and the survivors began to feel blows on the sides of the ship. The young Brooks looked out for a moment to see what was happening and was captured by two hands and brought underwater. Sam, Alan and Rallen were confused and terrified and did not know what to do. At this point they quickly closed below deck and from the portholes they could see strange figures in the distance. Alan saw a blonde girl with a fish tail and a smooth body (Amanda Seyfried). He approached the oblo and with a disquieting smile greeted Alan, immediately after his arrival, another creature with brown hair (Alexandra Daddario) gave her a shove and gave a blow to the glass of the porthole and immediately jumped into the water laughing. The three survivors they start to look scared as the creatures, the sirens, continue to jump on the ship scaring the three survivors.That was at that moment that a red-haired mermaid (Riley Keough) showed up laughing with the head of poor Brooks in his hands, amused by the frightened reaction of the others. Alan says it looked like the creatures were playing with them and kept looking at the blond haired mermaid and told Rallen that the blonde was named Lily, while the one with the red hair Ross, but she did not know how she knew that. ship began to swing, creatures must surely be many. Suddenly there was a kind of shrill cry, Alan and Sam covered their ears while Rallen, almost hypnotises he took the key and tried to open the door. Alan threw himself on him and after a fight he recovered the key. Rallen kept saying, "I have to open the door," "They want us to go with them." Sam took a piece of wood and hit him on the head making him faint. Meanwhile the brown-haired mermaid kept looking at the scene from the porthole with an amused look. The blonde Lily instead, seemed to behave differently from the other sirens and escaped into the water with an almost sad face.
After a while they began to see the first light of dawn and a terrifying silence fell on the ship. After a few hours Rallen woke up, barely remembering what had happened, said that the creatures were checking him and talking to him. He said that the creatures, in the past, were human beings who had lost themselves at sea and were transformed many years ago by a giant monster that lives in the abyss in sirens and their purpose of life was to capture new travelers to eat them or to be transformed into new sirens.
About noon they came out of their hiding place to check the ship's situation and saw two severed legs stuck to the bow.
As the evening approached, the fear began to take possession of the three survivors, who brought under the lights they could find on board the ship, hoping that the sirens were really afraid of the light.When it was sunset, they closed down in their hiding place. After a while the creatures started to knock on the ship and their evil laughter was heard. The three men agreed on what to do in case the sirens tried to hypnotize one of them. At that moment, Sam hoped that the creatures could not hypnotize them all together as he looked out the porthole. He was looking at the usual Lily, who rummaged with some objects in the cabin while a new siren (Olivia Munn) arrives on the ship, a wonderful creature with a strange object in her hair. The other sirens treated her with respect and Sam thought that perhaps she was the queen of the sirens. The other sirens moved and the new sirens closed their eyes, opening their mouths. After a few seconds, he heard the shrill cry of the night before and Alan and Rallen were hypnotized together while Sam tried to fight the strange feeling with little success. All three came out and came face to face with the creatures, they were many and all beautiful. The two sirens, the red-haired and brown, invited the three to dive with them and disappear into the water. Alan and Rallen followed them immediately and disappeared into the waves. Despite the resistance, Sam took two steps forward and was close to diving. Suddenly he felt the voice of Lily in his mind trying to communicate telepathically with him and told him not to dive and turn around. At that moment Sam turned and immediately lit a match and threw it close to the queen on a barrel of fuel that caught fire. The queen was frightened and Sam's mind was released as the ship began to burn. Suddenly Sam feels grabbing from behind and takes him underwater. Sam recognized the creature in Lily before losing consciousness.
Then the scene passes in a ship, Sam wakes up in a booth and next to him is his father, Mr. Woolrich, who says he controlled the situation from a distance and saw everything that had happened and intervened when the fire broke out. Sam begins to despise his father for putting him in danger and sacrificing the life of his crew and says he would tell it to everyone. Mr. Woolrich replied that if he had said a word about what had happened he would have him locked up in a madhouse and with a syringe he still put Alan to sleep. Later we see Mr. Woolrich and the captain of the ship talking about how the object is and then we see the poor mermaid Lily tied to cry.
The film ends with the gaze of the mermaid queen full of anger and a scary scream.
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