Movie Review: Killer Mermaid

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Netflix is chock full of horror movies and you have to weed through the bad ones to get to the good ones. Personally I am a fan of evil sea creature movies. Anything on SyFy dealing with sharks, an octopus, or a Piranha and I am in! So of course when I saw this title it was game on. Let's do this. I've got my coffee and the kids are in bed. Bring on the blood, guts, gore, and beauty.

Giving movies a fair shot sometimes means sitting through the first half hour of girls scantily clad (that's being generous, we all know boobs are just as big a part of a horror film as blood is) and bad acting. I'm watching and anticipating this mermaid to pop up at any given moment. They are in a boat, swimming in the water... NOTHING. I'm not one to quit on a movie no matter how much I'm not feeling it. Plus there's got to be a mermaid in here somewhere. Come on guys, it's the title of your film.

After almost a painstaking hour I am still awaiting the mermaids arrival because I feel as though when it does happen it is going to be epic. There she is. Finally. She was as glorious as I had thought she would be. Now let's get to the killing my beauty. I wanna see you rip someone to shreds. Well that's not really how it went down. I'm not into spoiling entire movies but I will say that she was not as killer as one would think with a movie being named after her.

All in all there was a lot of build up and the reveal of her is visually stunning but the plot was just not for me. I feel like they could have done so much more with such an amazing concept. If you are bored and looking for something to put on in the background that you can glance up at every now and again then I would say go for it but I wouldn't recommend making this your star film for movie night.

It's early and I'm only half way through my cup of coffee but I wanted to get this down while it was still fresh in my mind. Have you seen Killer Mermaid? What are your thoughts on this deadly beauty? Does she stack up to your expectations or does she fall short for you like she did for me?