Robert Eggers quickly established himself as a filmmaker who gets extensive on his research to ensure period accuracy after debuting The Witch.
It’s a mermaid body horror movie by way of coming-of-age drama. The more Mia’s body reacts and transforms in inhuman ways, the more she begins to suspect she may be adopted. Lisa Brühlmann‘s feature debut followed Mia’s ( Luna Wedler) attempt to navigate the murky waters of high school hierarchy while coping with alarming body changes. Similarly, 2017’s Blue My Mind saw a young teen struggle with the overwhelming onslaught of puberty both emotionally and physically. The sea creatures’ first foray in genre film belongs to 1961’s Night Tide, a psychological horror thriller centered around a romance, written and directed by Curtis Harrington. While most of the mermaid’s appearances play on romance, leave it to horror to lean into the darker nature of the mythology. The common belief is that the explorer mistook manatees for mermaids, but there’s no way to conclude what he saw definitively.Īll of which to say that the entity is so culturally ingrained yet loosely defined enough that it’s not surprising at all that the mermaid eventually invaded cinema. Stories of mermaids luring sailors became so prominent that it bled into history a 1493 log entry in Christopher Columbus’s journal detailed seeing three mermaids in the Caribbean Sea. Sometimes the mermaid signals impending doom, and other tales depict the being as a sign of good luck. These bird-like creatures lured sailors to their deaths through enchanting song. Mermaid legends spread over time and across cultures, while the Western iteration is often considered to draw from Greek mythology’s Sirens. That includes the folkloric creature made benign and romantic by Disney, the mermaid.įolktales of sea-dwelling humans with fish tales date as far back as ancient Assyria, with the goddess Atargatis. Then there’s cryptids and sea creatures, of which horror always has room for more. Alligators, crocodiles, and mutated fish make up another large percentage of an already shallow pool. The shark remains the reigning champ of aquatic horror, dominating the subgenre more than any other oceanic creature.
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