Em Varsóvia, um par de irmãs sereias são adotadas em um cabaré. Enquanto uma procura o amor com os humanos, a outra tem fome e quer comer a população da cidade.Em Varsóvia, um par de irmãs sereias são adotadas em um cabaré. Enquanto uma procura o amor com os humanos, a outra tem fome e quer comer a população da cidade.Em Varsóvia, um par de irmãs sereias são adotadas em um cabaré. Enquanto uma procura o amor com os humanos, a outra tem fome e quer comer a população da cidade.
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Set in Warsaw during the 1980s, The Lure follows a pair of mermaid sisters who are adopted by a family of musicians and are soon enlisted for gigs at the nightclub they regularly perform at. While one of them seeks companionship with the humans, the other is unable to escape her bloodthirsty nature and kills people with zero remorse.
Directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska, The Lure is no doubt arresting from the visual standpoint and adds few new things to the mermaid lore but it also becomes repetitive after a while and is unable to immerse the viewers into its tale or make them invest in the characters inhabiting it. Also, there is no explanation for the significance of its 1980s setting.
The atmosphere is mysterious & sexually charged, songs are intriguing & tuneful, romance subplot feels forced, while the horror part is only present in bits n pieces. The chemistry between the two girls playing the mermaids is electric and fascinating to watch but the rest of the cast barely has any meat on them, and their presence makes no difference whatsoever.
On an overall scale, The Lure is a finely envisioned & well conceptualised idea but it's also poorly executed. Its plot is intriguing but never engaging, its images are aesthetically pleasing but never alluring, and although the effort is commendable, it's never emotionally involving. Promising & flavourful at first, it doesn't take long for The Lure to turn into a pungent smelling sea foam.
Most of the musical numbers and dancing were well-choreographed, but a couple of sequences didn't quite gel. A bit less time is devoted to developing the most critical romance of the movie than it needed, which unfortunately lets a bit of air out of the ending.
The visuals and effects were surprisingly good. The mermaid tails especially were well done, with details such as broken scales and scars adding chilling realism. Be warned that some parts of the movie are a bit gruesome; the critical difference between traditional mermaids and their darker cousins is made clear on several occasions. Younger children probably shouldn't watch.
There are quite a few movies written around mermaids, but this is the first I have seen about sirens. Hollywood, take note-"The Lure" demonstrates that this area has a lot of dramatic potential.
All in all, definitely worth a one-time watch.
The film starts on the banks of a dirty river where a family are singing and drinking. They encounter two young girls in the water, sirens who sing about wanting to be lifted out of the water. The family, who turn out to form a band in a sleazy cabaret, see an opportunity to use the girls for their own purposes and they soon have them performing as a sort of singing/strip tease act the highlight of which is when at the end of their song they dive into the water and their land legs transform bag into their fish tails.
Let's get one thing straight: the script for The Lure isn't big on making sense. Characters drop in and out to explain exposition in a ham-handed fashion, the musical numbers are scattered infrequently throughout the movie and the English lyrics are difficult to parse and seem to have little relation to what's going on on screen.
Yet somehow the movie still contains a lot of charm. First time director Agnieszka Smoczynska seems to be having a ball co-ordinating the cheap glitzy glamour of the musical numbers. Actresses Marta Mazurek and Michalina Olszanska are great in their roles as sister sirens Silver and Gold imbuing them with innocence even when their sleazy guardians use them both sexually and financially.
The movie flits with deeper themes like emotional heartbreak, sisterhood, exploitation, sex, work etc. but the script never gives more than a handful of minutes to each issue so they're never fully explored. That's too bad but at the same time if you turn your brain off and just try to enjoy the movie you're in for a wild ride like nothing you've ever seen before.
Two mermaids come ashore and are starting to work in a strip club. So far so good but mermaids can't fall in love with humans and when one does she is told to kill her lover. What do happens is for you to find out.
The effects are really good, you would indeed believe that they are real mermaids. They both have a special face to make it more believable and they areen't shy to show their naked body. The thing that can make people turn it off is the fact that it is also some kind of musical. The mermaids do sing in a local band but sometimes other actors start singing. That fact make it hard for horror geeks to watch it. But if yoy aren't going to take it seriious then you can watch it easily. There's a bit of red stuff but not that much but it's the strong script that keep you attached to the screen. I loved it.
Gore 0/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 3,5/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5
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- CuriosidadesThe mermaid tails were six feet long and weighed over fifty pounds. According to Agnieszka Smoczynska, they were designed to look "repulsive" and different from depictions like Splash: Uma Sereia em Minha Vida (1984) or H2O: Meninas Sereias (2006).
- Erros de gravaçãoEven though the drummer had his thumb bitten off by Golden, both of his thumbs are visible in the wedding scene when he is playing with the life preserver.
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Zlota: [singing] It's been a long time since I've felt this lonesome/It can't be the weather though it's pretty loathsome/At night I get cravings that aren't quite wholesome/It's been a long time since I've felt this lonesome/It can't be the weather though it's pretty loathsome/At night I get cravings that aren't quite wholesome/Because I'm sad and so are you/Now he's sad cause we're sad too/You're all sad and they're all sad/We're all gloomy as hell/Bid farewell to cheerful smiles/Dark thoughts eat me up alive/I'm a fly facing winter/Heavy, black, and sleepy/Because I'm sad and so are you/Now he's sad cause we're sad too/You're all sad and they're all sad/We're all gloomy as hell/You're all sad and they're all sad/We're all gloomy as hell
- Cenas durante ou pós-créditosThe opening credit sequence is an animation by the painter Aleksandra Waliszewska, known for her nightmare-inducing takes on fairy-tale characters-our first indication that we are in waters far from Disney. Skulls bob around the mermaid sisters as they swim sinuously about their aquatic serial killers' den, their sweet singing voices and long gold and raven locks in stark contrast to their grim surroundings.
- ConexõesFeatured in Off the Hook: The Making of 'The Lure' (2017)
- Trilhas sonorasSyreni Calling
Music by Barbara Wronska
Lyrics by Zuzanna Wronska
Performed by Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska & Barbara Wronska
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- Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 101.657
- Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 7.370
- 5 de fev. de 2017
- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 108.846
- Tempo de duração
- 1 h 32 min(92 min)
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- 2.39 : 1