After Johnny learns Mora’s last few boyfriends drowned under mysterious circumstances - and that Mora actually believes she is a mermaid, ravaged by a desire to kill - a kooky-yet-compelling caper sets sail. In the gripping, if slightly choppy “Night Tide,” Johnny Drake (Dennis Hopper) is a sailor smitten with a Santa Monica pier performer known as Mora the Mermaid (Linda Lawson). There’s arguably too much going on in director Milan Todorovic’s 2014 nightmare, complete with a secondary antagonist weirdly reminiscent of “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” Still, this is the truest bluest mermaid slasher on the market, staking out essential territory for mythical monsters in the genre. Their passionate affair continues at the office where Jennifer and Bruce both work, inadvertently catching the attention of the CIA.Īlso known as “Mamula” or “Killer Mermaid,” this Serbian thriller follows friends Kelly (Kristina Klebe) and Lucy (Natalie Burn) on a vacation to Montenegro, where a siren-like creature with razor-sharp teeth awaits. When aerospace engineer Bruce Templeton accidentally hooks Jennifer Nelson, a diver dressed as a mermaid, off the coast of Catalina, they embark on a whirlwind love-hate relationship. That said, its inclusion speaks volumes to just how irresistible “Glass Bottom Boat” can be. Starring Rod Taylor and Doris Day, Frank Tashlin’s instantly lovable 1966 rom-com ranks low on this list not because it’s lacking in quality, but because its connection to mermaids is limited.
We’re updating this list in November 2022, in honor of the release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and the addition of the Talokan to Marvel’s Phase 4. Ranked by both entertainment value and category relevance, here are the 22 best movies about mermaids, sea monsters, and magical creatures walking on land. But with charming flicks like “Luca” asking the same question, while so clearly fitting the cheery “best mermaid movie” bill, that seems a semantic argument more than a thematic one.
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Mermaids, or merfolk in general, have been the bad guys in numerous projects most notably in Universal’s black-and-white classic “Creature from the Black Lagoon.” Sure, one could argue that’s a sea monster movie as opposed to a mermaid movie. Night Shyamalan’s insufferable “Lady in the Water.”Ī Best Picture winner from 2018, Guillermo del Toro’s masterful “The Shape of Water” captures the slippery second side to mermaids in the movies: As much as mermaids are portrayed as beautiful damsels, they can also be vicious monsters dragging heroes to the murky depths. Howard’s film is among a league of contemporary mermaid romances, from Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum’s sparkling “Aquamarine” to M.
Darryl Hannah appeared opposite Tom Hanks not much earlier in the 1984 Academy Award-nominated rom-com “Splash,” directed by Ron Howard. (You might recall: Those were sent up by Scarlett Johansson in the Coen brothers’ spoofy 2016 flick “Hail, Caesar!”) Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” brought the mermaid musical to the animation-loving masses in 1989, winning Best Original Score and Best Original Song for “Under the Sea” at the Oscars. The siren songs characteristic of these mysterious ocean-dwellers even resulted in a string of MGM aqua musicals. Peabody and the Mermaid,” starring Ann Blyth. The mythical archetype was subsequently reeled in as the effervescent love interest template for numerous ’30s and ’40s rom-coms, with the concept perfected in Irving Pichel’s well-loved talky “Mr. Adolfi’s 1918 feature “Queen of the Sea” among others. Half-human, half-fish creatures swam onto the big screen at the turn of the 20th century, appearing in silent works such as Georges Méliès’ 1904 short film “The Mermaid” and John G.
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Beneath every placid surface and between each crashing wave, the movies’ most magical aquatic adventures portend the possibility of mermaids.
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