Siren (2016)

Lack of good storyline.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

This movie was excellent. If you enjoy horror movies, you should watch it.Although I wish you would take my advice, some people need a little more persuading, so….I went into this movie blind, not having seen any trailers or reviews. Mermaids are my favorite mythical creature, so as soon as I saw the title, I wanted to watch it. I was a bit taken aback because this siren is not a mermaid, but a demon that can use her voice like aquatic sirens. I was easily able to look past that this siren had wings instead of a tail.Justin Welborn did an amazing job as Mr. Nyx. Even his outfit was perfect, and usually I would think someone wearing that is a bit douchey, but he pulled it off. Once the bachelor party gets into the mansion things start getting really strange and takes a very dark turn. There's more than just a lap dance or two, and they bring it right out onto to the stage. (No hiding the debauchery behind closed doors!) The kill scenes, along with the blood and gore, were done well. And as a woman, who has seen lots of violence and rape towards women in movies, it was an interesting turn of events to have this done to men instead.And although the ending concluded how I figured it would, there was still a small twist, which I enjoyed.

It is a really average horror movie. The only interesting thing was the original idea, which I already knew because I've seen the 2012 V/H/S segment called Amateur Night which had the same plot, only way shorter. The extra stuff doesn't really add anything worthwhile, only steals ideas from From Duck Till Dawn, so in my opinion it failed as a movie. However, I must rate it as a standalone and as such it is rather typical.The only notable thing in this film is huge eyed Hannah Rose Fierman, a beautiful girl who most likely will have a fruitful career in horror and alien movies.

Cops and some cowboy arrive at a scene. There's bloody footprints going up walls and some ceremonial circle drawn in blood on the floor. The cops are eliminated. But the cowboy knows what's going on and what to do. Someone has summoned something and he calls it...it's just a naked girl. He gets her in the circle and puts a brace on her.Elsewhere four friends are driving to some tolerant town to celebrate one of the guy's bachelor party. The best man is his brother who is all about wild fun. The plan is to say yes to everything.They end up in some strip joint that is rather underwhelming. The brother meets a guy at the bar who says he knows a place... Sure enough the gang follows this guy somewhere and they end up in some mansion with lots of attractive girls. Running the show is none other than the cowboy from the into. Has has something special in mind for the bachelor Jonah. But in exchange he wants their fondest memory of their mother. He hypnotizes them and his sidekick insert leeches into their neck that are collected after they relive their memory. The leeches serve as carriers of memories and can be inserted into anyone to relive those experiences. Now Jonah goes through corridors to a windowed door where he sees the girl from the intro, Lily. She sings to him and he relives his most ecstatic moments. Then he decides to rescue her since she's captive in a locked room. He frees her and manages to escape with his friends, but Lily is on her own now after she butchers one of the bouncers.The guys crash into a tree and then the cowboy shows up, he wants Lily back. Lily appears and grabs Jonah in spectacular fashion. She likes him and has kinky sex with him. Eventually the guys end up in the clutches of the cowboy again. He needs Jonah to lure Lily into captivity again, but Jonah is too good of a guy and that causes him trouble in the end.I very much enjoyed Amateur Night, the source material for Siren. And Siren expands on a great idea. It fortunately ditches the POV format and gives us a high quality feature film. Siren is smart, funny, original, fascinating with several surprising moments. It's not perfect, performances are all over the place, but Justin Welborn's outstanding performance carries the movie--in terms of performances. I'm also not a fan of horror at night and in total darkness, especially if your main character is a naked girl. Compared to the standard predictable horror movies that make little effort but just go through the motions, Siren offers so much more, including a very rich and intelligent script.2016 hasn't been a good year for horror. Siren stands out as one of the best recent horror movies.

"SiREN" is the latest venture into the bachelor-party-gone-wrong vein of horror. Two brothers and two other guys (all friends) venture out into the night for a little debauchery since it is one brother's last night of freedom, so to speak. They are guided to a rather opulent home--in the middle of nowhere--where there every wish is promised to be granted. However, they should know better to open Pandora's box (in a manner of speaking). The movie overall was not that bad. The acting was better than expected, the colors used while filming the guys trips on mushrooms was very interesting, and there were some very different camera angles used. That's the good. Now here's the bad. If you are going to make a movie about creatures from Greek mythology, I suggest you at least do a little reading before you start filming. Sirens were mythical creatures whose songs were so beautiful they were able to lure sailors and their ships onto the rocks causing imminent death. Some researchers say they had the bodies of birds with the head of a women or vice-versa. They did NOT have demon tails. I also found out they were cannibals, something I did not know!The movie really never knew where to go. It started out muddled and it ended muddled. I don't know if the producers of the film had a knock-down, drag-out fight with the censors but it appeared to me the siren's nude body was (at times) blurred out of vision. I don't know what that was all about, but it was very distracting. Also, no explanation was given as to the attraction of the girl to that one particular man.Rated R for horror violence and nudity, The SiREN's song here is a little off-key.