Mermaids

Mermaids are creatures of myth and legend. They are presented as aquatic females with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a fish. The male equivalent to a mermaid is a merman. Mermaids appear in nearly all forms of popular culture.

The most well known horror film to use mermaids as its central antagonist is She Creature, which was marketed as Part One of "The Mermaid Chronicles". It was written and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez and starred Rufus Sewell and Carla Gugino.

Mermaids were referenced in the H.P. Lovecraft story Dagon, which was adapted into a feature film in 2001 by director Stuart Gordon.

Two mermaid sisters named Srebrna and Zlota were the main characters in the Polish horror movie The Lure, released in 2015. The sisters resided in Warsaw, and where one coveted a peaceful and loving relationship with humans, the other sought only to see them as food.

The 2015 movie Mermaid's Song, also known as Charlotte's Song, was directed by Nicholas Humphries, and was an homage to the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, The Little Mermaid.

Another send-up to the Hans Christian Andersen story was the two-part "A Witch's Tail" episode of the WB Network television series Charmed, wherein a sea hag manipulated a mermaid named Mylie into giving up her immortality. Phoebe Halliwell briefly became a mermaid herself throughout the course of events.

Another example of an evil mermaid is the 2018 Russian horror film Mermaid: Lake of the Dead. In the film, an evil mermaid fell in love with a man named Roman, who was engaged to marry a former mermaid named Marina. The mermaid in question was once a mortal woman who drowned several centuries earlier. Marina had but one week to overcome her fear of the dark water, and to remain human in the deathly fight with the monsters and not to become one herself.