The Siren

“So,...I'm something of a sucker for low-budget movies. Some, like Love Immortal, were diamonds in the rough, waiting for a professional polishing from”

“So,...I'm something of a sucker for low-budget movies. Some, like Love Immortal, were diamonds in the rough, waiting for a professional polishing from Hollywood. Others, too many to list here, look like a pair a stoners with too much money and easily-entertained friends made them for the heck of it. Then some are just right where they are - the kind of stuff you watch at the local "art house" theatre during a film festival.

The Siren (a/k/a The Rusalka) is one of those movies. A rumination on fate, redemption, hatred, jealousy and vengeance.

Nina, the titular Siren, we are told at the beginning, was once a beautiful woman who drowned in the lake and was transformed into a murder-driven monster. Through flashbacks, her Siren self-realization is filled with horror, resi” read more