This all-singing, all-dancing Polish mermaid film has teeth

An earnest effort to combine myth, music, and horror topples periodically into an incoherent mess as two carnivorous mermaids play punk rock in a tacky cabar...

An erotic, body-violent new wave rock opera about wayward sirens.

Siren song: Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s delirious, murderous musical harkens back to the cinema du look, Hans Christian Andersen, and much more

Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczynska’s exuberant feature is a fanciful mermaid fable set in a Warsaw nightclub.

Agnieszka Smoczyńska's demented debut feature is like "The Little Mermaid" by way of Nine Inch Nails.

Like a retro-disco nightmare after eating too much seafood and watching “The Little Mermaid,” the Polish whatchamacallit “The Lure” is a woozily entr...

Agnieszka Smoczynska’s first feature is a genre-bending tale that swerves from parody to fairy tale to gleeful gore, with camp decadence.

Agnieszka Smoczynska’s first feature is a genre-bending tale that swerves from parody to fairy tale to gleeful gore, with camp decadence.

This review is being republished. The Lure opens on February 1st. It's the '80s rock musical with sex, mermaids, and murder you've been waiting for. Polish f...

The opening scene of The Lure cleverly reverses the age-old relationship between sirens and their prey. It hints that it is the fishtailed siblings who are b...

Watching The Lure is a bit like having manic depression: the thrilling high points are just as relentless as the crushing low-tide ebbs.

Dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska. Poland. 2015. 92mins

Where but at a film festival do you get the chance to see a Polish musical romance about two man-eating, mermaid sisters (Marta Mazurka and Michelin Olszansk...

Agnieszka Smoczynska’s film uses mermaids as a vehicle to eviscerate misogyny

This is a reprint of our review from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. In mermaid tales — the old ones, before Disney — hybrid fish-women use their glorio...

Deeply dippy story of vampire mermaid sisters wreaking havoc above water gleefully shows off its collection of whosits and whatsits galore.

The Lure is the Polish romantic musical thriller about killer mermaids and Eurotrash pop you never knew you needed.