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The Lure (2015)
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
Two mermaid sisters perform in a Polish nightclub and discover how differently they want to live around people. The songs let the sudden changes in feeling come straight out of the performance. Choose it for a mix of musical fantasy, appetite, and body horror.
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Night Tide (1961)
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
A sailor is drawn to a woman who performs as a mermaid on a pier. He becomes unsure what she is or what has happened to people before him. The quiet seaside setting makes the film a good first choice when you want suggestive dread and an uncertain answer.
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Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature (2001)
5.8/10on IMDb
Released
A captured mermaid is transported aboard a ship and becomes more dangerous as the crew realizes how little it knows about her. Pick this 2001 period horror film for a creature that needs relatively little space to make everyone else feel trapped.
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The Siren (2019)
4.9/10on IMDb
Released
A visitor to a lakehouse gets to know a woman connected to the water, while another man there has a reason to fear what happens in it. Choose the 2019 film for the uneasy place between a romance and a story about someone you cannot safely get to know.
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The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead (2018)
4.4/10on IMDb
Released
A water spirit becomes fixated on a woman’s fiancé and starts drawing him away from their life together. The Russian film gives the shore and the lake separate claims on the same person. Try it for a modern couple in a fairly direct retelling of a rusalka legend.
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Killer Mermaid (2014)
4.1/10on IMDb
Released
Two visitors reach an abandoned island fortress and discover something hiding below it. This Balkan-set creature feature, also known as Mamula or Nymph, suits a viewer who likes an old structure and an unknown shape in the water to become dangerous together.
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Dagon (2001)
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
An accident strands visitors in a Spanish coastal village where the people’s origin matters to what happens after dark. A woman with an unsettling connection to the sea gives the story a mermaid-like side without making it a fairy tale. Pick it for a broader Lovecraftian creature film.
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Cold Skin (2017)
6.0/10on IMDb
Released
At an isolated outpost, creatures from the sea and a keeper’s relationship with one of them change what the newcomer thinks he is defending. Choose it for a siren-myth variation in which fear, intimacy, and the shape of a familiar siege become hard to separate.
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The Little Mermaid (2024)
Released
Leigh Scott’s horror version follows an archaeologist who meets a mysterious woman during an excavation on a Caribbean island. Pick it for a darker independent take built around an underwater mystery. This is a separate film from Disney’s live-action adaptation.
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The Mermaid’s Curse (2019)
3.5/10on IMDb
Released
A reporter falls for a woman he meets by the water and has to work out what he is seeing. The movie takes the old premise of a siren who can lure people from solid ground and gives it a small British coastal setting.
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Mermaid's Curse 2: Return of the Witch (2025)
2.3/10on IMDb
Released
A journalist is drawn to Serena while men begin vanishing from a coastal town. The sequel gives the disappearances and the sirens behind them a bigger part in the mystery. Go here if the first film’s dangerous attraction is more interesting to you as part of a group story.
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The Lighthouse (2019)
7.3/10on IMDb
Released
A mermaid is part of the visions and legends that destabilize two lighthouse keepers on a remote island. Choose it for grainy, claustrophobic horror where an image can have a lasting effect without answering whether the creature exists outside someone’s imagination.
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Tropical Parasite (2026)
Released
A treasure hunt in the Andaman Sea puts its hero in the way of a water nymph and a curse. This is a deliberately low-budget modern ocean fantasy. Pick it for a less familiar setting and a haunting tied to attraction as well as the dangers of searching the water.
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Mermaid Down (2019)
4.3/10on IMDb
Released
A captured mermaid is taken away from the sea and put in an institution where other people control how her story is understood. Pick it when you want the mermaid’s fear to matter as much as any fear she inspires. It goes much further into body horror than the quiet seaside films.
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Blue My Mind (2017)
6.1/10on IMDb
Released
A teenager has to live with frightening physical changes that pull her toward the water. The horror comes from recognizable adolescent pressures sharing a body with something she cannot explain. It is a more intimate watch than the films about guarding a beach from a known creature.
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Charlotte's Song (2015)
4.5/10on IMDb
Released
A girl with a gift connected to the mermaid tale faces people trying to take advantage of it in a Dust Bowl setting. Choose it for a dark fairy tale that moves the danger far from the coast and ties it to the choices people make around the girl.
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Mermaid (2026)
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
A Florida dockworker gets increasingly attached to an injured mermaid he finds. Tyler Cornack's movie uses the monster encounter to show how ugly a would-be rescue can become when the rescuer wants something back.
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The Deadly Little Mermaid (2026)
2.5/10on IMDb
Released
An artist brings home a woman he pulled unconscious from the water, and he begins to wonder what he has taken in. This is Cameron Uzoka's film, distinct from the Leigh Scott horror version of The Little Mermaid.
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Mermaid Isle (2020)
3.0/10on IMDb
Released
Four friends run into the creature behind their town's lake legend. Choose this small-scale feature for a harmful mermaid placed in familiar freshwater scenery instead of the open ocean.
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Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
5.7/10on IMDb
Released
The 1980 film puts fishlike humanoids around a coastal fishing town. It is a rough creature-feature branch of the theme, with the threat coming from the sea. The original has disturbing adult material.
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Siren (2010)
3.6/10on IMDb
Released
In this 2010 film, boaters help a mysterious woman and find themselves on an isolated island. The water and the uncertainties about the woman are part of how the story draws on siren folklore.
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