Lake of the dead official trailer (2018) horror movie

     

Rusalka: Ozero Myortvykh, THE MERMAID: LAKE OF THE DEAD (2018)Directed by: Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy Written by: Ivan Kapitonov, Natalya Dubovaya, Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy Starring: Efim Petrunin, Igor Khripunov, Nikita Elenev, Sofia Shidlovskaya, Viktoriya Agalakova

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THE MERMAID: LAKE OF THE DEAD (2018)aka Rusalka: Ozero MyortvykhDirected by Svyatoslav PodgaevskiyRussian but dubbed in English

Aclrocrevn.commplished swimmer Roma is plagued by visions of a female water spirit who wants him to lớn love her & join her in the lake at his parents old summer house. Already in love with his fiance Marina, he refuses the spirit’s advances but unfortunately she doesn’t take no for an answer…

THE MERMAID: LAKE OF THE DEAD initially sounded an interesting idea on paper. I mean, who wouldn’t want lớn watch a film about killer mermaids. However, this film can’t even achieve the English title it sports as this film doesn’t actually feature a mermaid at all but a Rusalka. A Rusulka is more akin to lớn a vengeful water spirit, kind of like the type you see in J-horror; an aggrieved spirit of a jilted woman who lrocrevn.commmitted suicide years ago in the water, or in this case centuries ago, who now has a bug lớn bear with all men. Spurned by her lover after he initially said he was into her, the spirit’s long-term plan is khổng lồ lure men into her lake before snatching everybody they care about when said bloke decides that it was a bad decision acknowledging her in the first place. Sounds a weak plot? You wouldn’t be wrong. This is pretty much the top & bottom of the film as the dripping wet girl in her late teens/early twenties appears throughout the film lớn try & whisk Roma back lớn her watery grave. Enter pissed off fiance Marina who refuses khổng lồ let go of her man and so, with the help of Roma’s sister Olga và Roma’s friend Ilya, attempts to lớn banish the spirit for good. It’s pretty tedious stuff and no matter how they try to lớn dress it up, with jump scares and scenes heavily inspired by Japanese horror movies, it just seems to go absolutely nowhere. Our lead character Roma flits back và forth from being the macho hero to being on deaths door as the water spirit does her dirty work on him, but I found myself wondering if I really cared that much at all? The answer: not really.

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Apart from the aforementioned jump scares, there’s very little khổng lồ get the adrenaline going. If you have a fear of water then the drowning style scenes may cause panic but scenes involving the water spirit adopting her CGI wide-mouthed, razed-toothed visage will hardly scare horror fans who’ve seen it all before. The entire film just feels messy and not very well thought out & therefore belrocrevn.commes a kiểm tra of patience rather than a horror film you can properly enjoy.

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When you have a ‘mermaid’ film that lacks any fin action, you know something is wrong. I went in expecting a vicious version of Splash but the result is just your ordinary, bog-standard, watered down budget horror that doesn’t even capitalise on Rusalka mythology either. Horror fans would be advised to lớn give this one a wide berth.

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