Director: Pilar Malo
Year: 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: Mermaid's Curse 2: Return of the Witch
Genre: Creature Feature
Plot:
After meeting an enigmatic woman, a reporter begins an affair with her as they begin to explore their potential future, but the more he tries to get closer, the more she pulls away, eventually leading to a deadly revelation about her true self that puts them both in danger.
Review:
This was a pretty underwhelming and decidedly bland follow-up. What works best here is the series of genuinely likable interactions involving the different variations of the creature coming to attack their victims. Showing off a series of random strangers that are dragged into the water and taken victim from the surf by the creatures, there’s some fun to be had here with these scenes giving off a hint about the creatures so that their power is culpable for the later relationship that comes into play. As this works nicely enough with the idea of the old local legends involving the mermaids and sirens being true, as his search for the strange woman uncovers a series of sightings and historical confirmation that validates his theories regarding the story, it lets the film go forth with these strikingly enjoyable encounters. These are accomplished with an impressive tactic involving the slow-motion and exaggerated takes that add a haunting, ethereal quality to the scenes that is quite unexpected in this kind of film.
Outside of this, there’s not much to the film that’s worthwhile. The majority of the issues are based on the wholly dull and dragging pacing that doesn’t offer up much of a story here due to the kind of presentation featured here. The storyline of this one focuses on the need to discover the woman he hooked up with and spent a fun time with, which brings his journalist skills into use, looking up the backstory and history of the creatures, which is what helps to bring their true selves forward in a manner that’s immensely difficult to stay interested in. This storyline consists of nothing but an endless series of conversation scenes taking place looking at their relationship or learning information that puts everything in jeopardy later on although that could’ve been seen coming from a mile away anyway so it isn’t all that interesting. With nothing happening as a result, the few action scenes being so short and underwhelming that they barely register, and the tone being more romantic drama, with the complication being a carnivorous sea siren more than any kind of outright genre effort, these do hold this down overall.
Overview: */5
A wholly underwhelming and barely watchable sequel, this one comes together with a few positive points, but is overwhelmed by the negative elements, resulting in a generally poor effort. Those with an appreciation for the style here or who are fans of the creative crew will have the most to like here, while most others out there should heed caution.
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