Genre: Fantasy/Horror
Director: Rodrigo Cortes
Writer: Ben Collins
Cast: Miles Teller, Amber Heard, Cameron Monaghan, Michael Stuhlbarg, Kevin Zegers, Sophie Cookson, Olivia Munn, Rebecca Rittenhouse
Plot: Two young thieves are prowling around on a dark and rainy night. After robbing one house, they enter another which seems empty at that moment. As long as they are looking for jewels and other precious things they hear noises coming from the cellar which attract their attention. The cellar is cold and there is a lot of meat in various freezers. At a certain point they hear a "click" and the cellar door closes. The two thieves try to hide. Something goes down in the dark and begins to bite into a piece of raw meat. One of the two thieves makes a noise and is heard by the inhabitant of the house. At this point, in the dark one of the two thieves is taken from behind and bitten in the neck. The other tries to escape the stairs but is taken by the leg and violently dropped on the ground where he slams his face on the ground. At this point the camera shows the boy's bloody face and is pulled into the darkness.
In Minneapolis. Evan (Miles Teller) is an American boy who had to leave a College to take care of his cancer mother.One day,the woman seems very weak, sits on the bed and dies in Evan's arms.Some days later, after her mother's funeral, she enters a physical altercation with another man while drinking at the restaurant where she works, causing the loss of her work. In fact, he understands that his employer can't stand him and was just waiting to fire him. Billy, his best friend tries to summarize him by talking to his employer but without success and Evan leaves pushing his employer and slamming the door. In the evening, half drunk until he looks at old photos that portray him with his mother, he takes the phone and calls his "friend" with whom he has a kind of rather dark relationship. He is joined by a prostitute named Roxy (Sophie Cookson) who also carries cocaine. After a night of wild sex, he receives a visit from his best friend Billy (Kevin Zegers) who says he advises him to take a trip to tidy up his ideas and start his life over. Billy tells him that he can join him later when he settles down. Evan isn't sure he'll leave all his memories that way, but eventually realizes that he has nothing left and is convinced, despite another visit from Roxy, that he may have to change his mind. Evan takes the plane and travels for a few days across Europe and stops in Italy, in a small town in the northeast.By now the money is almost finished and he decides to stop and ask for accommodation on a farm of a grumpy American gentleman named Ray (Michael Stuhlbarg), who had previously worked that soldier at an American base in Italy.Ray, a widower for several years, at first is a bit rude towards Evan but understanding the difficulties of the young man he decides to hire him to be helped in his large vineyard despite Evan being in Italy illegally.
The next day Evan is sent by Ray to the bakery and to buy some fertilizers for the vegetable garden. While the boy starts taking pictures of an old and beautiful monument in the square which is a fountain that looks like a mermaid and meets a flirtatious girl named Julie (Amber Heard). He is initially suspicious, but then becomes more interested. To continue his relationship with Julia, he manages to be hired as Ray's aide, who mainly has large vineyards. Julie, who initially turned down Evan, eventually had sex with him without using a condom during the evening. The next morning he wakes up in front of him and leaves. When Evan wanders the city, he sees Julie go to the butcher, he also notices that she might be followed by a boy named Alex, (Cameron Monaghan) who behaves in a strange way. Evan surprises Julie and spends the day together exploring some nearby cities where they also visit a museum where Julie proves to be an expert in ancient history.Julie says she is a researcher who is doing studies on the genetics of people born in those places. Evan is delighted to have met such a beautiful, intelligent and cultured girl. Until the two visit the Evan museum he is struck by a drawing depicting a girl in a red dress on a cliff overlooking the orange colored sea and a painting in which a group of mermaids surrounds a boat while the sun is setting. to ask for information but the girl says they are only legends. Julie immediately changes the subject by telling her love for ancient languages. In fact, she tells the boy cute phrases in extinct languages. The relationship between the two grows even if the two still know each other little but from the first hours spent together they seem to be made for each other. Evan, however, cannot understand why the girl is a little vague in telling things about herself. Eventually the two greet each other with a kiss and go home. Evan returns home happy and contented while Julie shortly after greeting Evan seems to be strange, dark-faced, breathing badly and staggering until she approaches her home. She also struggles to open the front door. Then the scene moves to Ray's house, with the ex-soldier asking Evan how the day had gone. Evan apologizes for not returning home early and tells him about the day together with Julie. As Evan recounts all of Julie's strengths, the scene moves to Julie's house. Julie is shown with rotten skin and is turning into a non-human creature. Even his voice has changed, it is hoarse and frightening. Julie struggles down the stairs, approaches a cage where there is a mouse inside and eats it and her skin seems to become more normal (All this with Evan illustrating how wonderful the girl is). Then Evan promises to do the jobs he was supposed to do the next day. Ray is understanding and offers a beer to the young boy and tells of his late wife. The next day until the two drink hot chocolate Julie asks Evan about his family history. Although reluctant to reveal the details, Evan lets himself go with tears in his eyes and then asks Julie to tell him something about her. Julie gently removes the contact lens from her right eye and shows her eyes in two different colors. Evan remembers seeing the same condition reflected by some women on many of the museum's paintings the previous day and also on the cover of an old manuscript, but obviously he doesn't give weight to it. Occasionally Evan hears his friend Billy on the phone and informs him of all the improvements in his life. Later we see scenes where Julie feeds on raw meat and we understand that if she doesn't eat she weakens and her wonderful human form begins to change. Evan is increasingly in love with her and Julie's mutations seem to be increasingly frequent and seemingly uncontrollable. Julie begins to consume more and more raw meat. One evening Julie and Evan are having dinner in a restaurant, Julie takes a plate of meat carpaccio and Evan jokes that she is a meat lover. Suddenly, following an Evan compliment, the skin conditions slowly begin to deteriorate. Evan realizes the problem. Julie defends herself by saying she has an allergic rash but her behavior becomes strange, almost violent and suddenly she runs away from the restaurant. Evan is surprised while all the people in the restaurant look at him badly. Outside the restaurant we see Alex assisting the scene and smiling and he follows Julie who is approaching home with difficulty. As she approaches her home, she is attacked by Alex who tries to rape her. After a brief confrontation, Julie turns into a scary creature and slams the boy violently on the wall and then bites his neck tearing a piece of meat leaving him in a pool of blood. The creature notices someone who has witnessed the scene and fast approaching ready to attack. Then she sees that she is a very old and blind lady, probably suffering from Alzheimer's and walks away. Then Julie struggles into the house. Evan tries to call the girl several times but she doesn't answer. Evan, who worked illegally on the farm the next day, must leave the farm because the police are following in his footsteps. Ray still manages to get the boy away and has no consequences. Evan does not know where to go and as long as he walks bewildered he reads in a newspaper the news of the brutal murder of a boy right near the place where his beloved lives. Evan arrives there. The door is closed in a chain, through which he sees the blood on the floor and hears an almost evil voice. He breaks the chain to open the door and finds an octopus-like creature on the floor wearing Julie's torn dress, trying to reach for a syringe. After a moment's hesitation, he takes the syringe and injects it into the creature's neck. After a few seconds Evan witnesses the transformation and that horrible reptilian creature returns to be the beautiful Julie. The girl almost in tears apologizes to Evan that if he wants he can leave.Evan is not sure what to do, initially approaches the door to leave but then goes back, continuing to look at Julie as if he had seen a ghost. Julie reveals to Evan that she is around 2000 years old and is a mutant. All the photos of women with double eyes, including the one on the cover of the book, belong to her. Every 20 years in the spring she becomes pregnant, so her body uses the cells in the embryo she carries to recreate her as she transforms into different creatures during the process. Evan is shocked and leaves. Julie follows him and continues to tell him more about the condition. He reveals that he didn't use a condom during intercourse with Evan to intentionally get pregnant. It also reveals that if he falls in love with someone, his body will produce a hormone that will keep embryonic cells from consuming, resulting in the loss of his immortality. Evan asks if she is in love with him, to which she replies that she is not and that she does not give up her immortality for anyone. Evan asks her to spend the last 24 hours with him before he evolves again. They spend all night talking to each other. Early in the morning the girl takes Evan to where she was born and tells her family story. After a few hours by car, they go to a cave near the city of Naples, where she was born. She says one morning she was playing one morning until a roar exploded from the mountain not far from it. That mountain was the Vesuvius volcano, the eruption of which caused many victims including parents submerged by the ashes, she says they sacrificed themselves with their bodies to allow her to live. The girl says that the memory is still alive, despite the several hundred years that have passed and she wipes a tear on her sleeve. The moment arrives and Evan makes one last attempt begging her not to change while Julie replies that she doesn't control her change process. His body decides what to do and if it starts to change, it means he could attack Evan and kill him. Julie tries to convince Evan to leave, but without success. Julie then lies down with her head on Evan's knees as she refuses to go and tells her about the experience of being mortal and all the positive aspects there are. Julie falls asleep gently while a calm and resigned Evan looks at Julie before closing the eyes too. A few hours later, we see that Evan opens his eyes suddenly when you hear a sound coming from Julie's mouth. However, she still finds Julie in her current human form, indicating that she is truly in love with Evan and has become mortal.
Evan is very happy and is jumping for joy, making the girl who was still sleeping fall to the ground in a comical way, who first wakes up confused and then celebrates with him. After a while Evan asks Julie if there are other creatures like her in the world. He says he knew he would ask this question. He shakes his head and says no and takes a small book from his backpack. She claims to be the last of her kind ... except in case they have a daughter, in which case a mutant like Julie will surely be born. But then Julie becomes more serious and changes expression and says that in the world there are many creatures not known by humans, some very dangerous and others more kind and shy. So Julie takes a sweet look and innocently says that he was lucky to find the best creature of all and she laughs. As long as you hear the girl in the background laughing, the scene portrays for a moment some situations such as a beach where two mysterious eyes emerge slightly from the water and carefully observe a child swimming alone and a forest in which he seems to see something jumping off a tree. Eventually Julie claims that someone has discovered the existence of creatures in the world and is looking for them to catch them or worse. The film ends with Julie quickly leafing through the booklet she had taken from her backpack previously saying that inside there are all the creatures with information, drawings and other things of which she had discovered the existence and which in some cases she had also seen in the his more than two thousand years of life. Evan, very intrigued, takes the booklet from Julie's hands right on the page in which a mermaid (Amanda Seyfried from the series "The Creature") is depicted in a glass case during a show directed by a man (Ian Mcshane, Mr. Woolrich in The Creature series). Evan asks in ecstasy "Do sirens really exist?" "Are they good?" and Julie responds with a grimace and scratching her head "Lily, the mermaid portrayed in the image can be defined as good and some others are good too. But many of them are quite cruel." After these words, the scene moves to a rock in the middle of the sea where we see the queen of mermaids (Olivia Munn) watching a splendid sunset with a severe and thoughtful gaze. Another siren emerges from the water (Rebecca Rittenhouse). Then in the distance we see that he approaches his queen and says something to her. The queen slams her hand into the water and makes a terrifying scream that raises a flock of seagulls. Then they both descend into the sea depths.
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