Siren

Plot synopsis:
One week before his wedding day, Jonah and his groomsmen hit the town for a wild night of club hopping and debauchery. But the party becomes a savage fight for survival when they unwittingly unleash a fabled predator upon the festivities.
Jonah tries to figure out a way to save his friend Rand, who was kidnapped and tortured by the sadistic Mr. Nyx, a former carnival owner turned necromancer. The girl, Lily, is actually a demon from hell known as a Siren that was summoned years ago, taken by Nyx, and forced to become a sex slave. Jonah tries to tell Lily he made a mistake not knowing what she was. Lily becomes infatuated with him and wants him to stay with her, killing anyone who gets in her way.
Jonah makes a deal with Nyx that Lily will follow him to a church where she was summoned years earlier. Jonah is happy to see Rand alive and well, while Nyx plans to send Lily back to hell, deeming her too dangerous to anyone around her.
However, Lily gets the upper hand and kills Nyx and his henchman, saving Jonah and Rand. She kisses Jonah goodbye, and decides to stay in the church for the rest of her life. A month later, Jonah and his wife Eva get married. They both make love on their honeymoon. Jonah decides to get himself a glass of wine, until he realized that he had made love to Lily and not Eva, who is asleep on the couch. Eva notices Lily and starts to scream, where Lily starts to attack her. Jonah begs her to stop and decides to go with her, while Eva starts to scream for Jonah, who disappears into the night.

Tags: murder

Review:
Siren is a "horror" film in which three friends take a boat trip to get away from the city.
While on the island they run into a woman, who seems frightened, disoriented and can't seemed to remember things.
She turns out to be a siren, of Greek mythology.
With a little bit a Greek mythology sprinkled in, I expected this film to be at the very least tolerable.
Siren will try to lure you in with the promise of sex, blood and horror.
It fails because the woman has visions of some blonde person, whom we later find out to be the siren.
The siren has many scenes where she kisses the woman, I have no idea why.
The question of what is real and what isn't is raised, but you'll never be interested enough to care.I'm expected to believe that the one character was in love with the other, except that he's upset about a 'hot friend' not making the trip.
This is not a horror film, I would call it suspense if anything...it even fails at that though..
You know, if you are going to make a sexy horror movie you have to go all the way.
On the other hand maybe you could have pull it off as a more serious horror movie with better actors.
But not showing the sex scenes between the characters, specially the lesbian scene, is not having any sense of business at all.In the end, be clear of what kind of movie you want to make and try to make the better movie you can of the genre...
And worst of all, that movie cover does send a wrong signal about what you will see in the movie.The movie "Siren" is a story about 3 people getting stranded on a small island when their boat breaks down and runs ashore.
But something is not entirely right on the island..."Siren" does have an interesting take on the whole siren mythology and it is interesting enough, just a shame that the rest of the movie was so bad.
And at times it is great, because you want to know what will happen next, but at other times it is frustrating, because you feel you are getting nowhere in way too long a time.Having a small cast was working well for the movie though, because you get more involved with each character, but sadly there were very little character evolving throughout the movie.
You never really fully did get into whom they were and why they acted the way they did.One thing that did work for the movie, was the singing.
And this was what killed off the movie for me, the final death throe.The genre is labeled as horror, but I wouldn't hardly call "Siren" a horror movie.
It is more of a suspense movie, because nothing scary is happening throughout the entire movie.I was disappointed with the overall movie experience, as I had expected at least something more than what it turned out to be; a sad excuse to show women kissing each other!.
nothing happens in this movie but the waste of time.
no connection but the idea of people who got influenced by the singing of sirens.
in fact, the movie combines the myth of sirens with the myth of circe.
that's, why the siren's name is silka, 'cause it sounds like, without meaning it.
Siren had the potential to be a great film.
Unfortunately due to poor scripting and what seems like a very rushed denouement, the film never really lives up to it's potentially very interesting premise.The director certainly shows some flair for gorgeous scenics and there is definitely an ambiance of sexy creepiness but all of this amounts to very little.Even the expected exploitative aspects of this film seem somewhat tame in terms of what they could've been.A really interesting first half amounts to a barely sustainable 76 odd minute somewhat interesting erotic horror film, but nothing you should go out of your way to make a point of seeing..
It's hard to believe that any film can get so much so wrong all at once.Siren has no major stars in it and is a self-confessed horror film.
There are only two women in the whole movie (and only one ever wears a bikini slightly near the end of the film).
The only similarity is that both films have boats in them.Then we have the film itself: three of the most unlikeable people in the world take a boat trip and end up getting stuck on an island with - you guessed it - a siren.
Cover art aside the movie began really suspenseful and the beginning is really good.
Running into a beautiful woman the movie quickly becomes like a bad acid trip as you struggle to figure out just what exactly is happening.Really, this is a very good flick if your a genre fan who doesn't need buckets of blood and loud explosions to keep you interested.
If you need lots of gore this really isn't that type of movie.
Group of friends rescue a someone and find a beautiful woman on an island who is not what she seems.Could have been worse I say C+.
After their boat bottoms out trying to save a drowning victim a group of friends discover a beautiful woman on a deserted island.
It may be skewed because the movies I watched before this were pretty boring, but this one actually wasn't too bad.
If I was up on my mythology I probably would have noticed some things that may have made this more interesting, but overall there are worse ways to spend an hour and a half.
It Pretends to be a Sexy Thriller with many a Sex Scenes that start out Real Sexy and end up with Interruptus.
There are Numerous Repetitive Scenes, for example, that have Something do with bending down to a Pool of Water and Scooping Up a Handful for some Unknown Reason.There are some Individual Shots that Impress, like the Facial Distortion, and a Bloody Hallucination or Two, but the Story Meanders as much as the Characters and Nothing is Tightly Woven Together.
But as a Completed Project there is Much to be Desired.Overall, Looking Good is not Enough and the Film Fails more than it Succeeds and Genre Fans are most Likely to be Very Disappointed and Serious Story Types...Ditto..
That said I'm glad it was filmed on location on an island and not in a studio.The story involves a couple in lust, Ken and Rachel who take a trip on a boat around the Greek islands.
They bury him on the island and run into a strange woman who doesn't speak much.That's when the psychoterror begins as all the tourists start seeing and hearing things, although none of it is particularly scary or threatening.
At first what keeps the movie going is the sexual tension between the attractive ladies Rachel and the woman.
Countless times we have one character wondering off into the woods and everyone else screaming his/her name over and over.The title gives away what this movie is about and yet they try to present that as a surprise, it obviously isn't.
Also important is a little background mythology and explanation the strange woman gives- which ends up in the deleted scenes!
There is a final twists in the movie which was very good and made things interesting.Despite the low budget, this movie looks very good, the ladies are hot, but the story is too minimal.
Be aware: Siren is not a masterpiece nor is it a tent pole style, Hollywood designed movie and has a very personal take and view from its director, the late Andrew Hull.
It leaves us guessing what the man behind the cam would have come up with in a potentially promising career.Siren explores the Ancient Greek myth with a twist and a more modern take on it, which I found very compelling and somewhat surprising.
Put in this context 4 stunning young characters (of which The Decent 2's jaw dropping Anna Skellern!), fear, blood and atrocities and you get a cocktail "frappe", on ice, served right there, in your living room.Now my only comment would be this stays a bit on the surface as far as the characters are concerned and some scenes could have been dug into a bit more (editing constraints?) but hey, for a straight to DVD horror, this is a much above the average one, and a pleasurable one to watch and rewatch..
Then years later, I found the DVD at a swap meet for $1.00 and thought it would be fun to watch it again.After the movie was completed, I felt the same way I did the first time until I played the deleted scenes.
There is a long deleted scene in special features where Silka (Srbova) is explaining the entire reason for everything happening on the island to the other female lead.
I was dumbfounded why that scene was taken out of the flick, because it actually would have saved the movie.Then interesting enough, I decided to try and reach Andrew Hull (director) to ask him why he removed the most important scene in the movie.
It turns out that Andrew Hull was killed in May 2010 in a bicycle accident, and the movie was picked up later by Lionsgate in October 2010.
All I can tell you is : if this key scene wasn't removed from this movie by whomever, this film would be sitting here with a much higher rating than it is.
Too bad for Andrew Hull, that he died before he had the chance to piece his movie together for a final edit that might have told the story he originally had in mind..
P2, the other horror movie from director Andrew Hull had something to deliver but here everything goes wrong.
It's well known that ships went down due the chants of sirens, and that's what this story is about.
Luckily the acting does deliver and especially Anna Skellern (Rachel) did a nice job and I guess people who have seen her in The Descent 2 as Cath will be happy to see her in her bikini.
So a 2 for the juggs of Anna, sadly that will be all because nothing really happens, it's more about a love story than a horror.
A long time horror fan; this movie struck me as one of the best I've seen in recent times..
It's not often you get a modern horror film with its origins in Greek myth, but SIREN is such a movie.
Sadly, it wastes the potential of that premise with a storyline that turns out to stick to its low budget origins in a film that features plenty of tease and very little in the way of action or incident.I don't mind mood pieces that focus on brooding atmosphere but there's none of that either.
Where SIREN does succeed is in creating a sufficiently exotic locale for the action - this British movie was shot in Tunisia and it looks great.
The twentysomething cast don't have much opportunity to shine given the vagueness of their characters, and when the supernatural aspects of the storyline finally show up they're dealt with in the most ordinary way imaginable.Where I do have to praise the film is in the performance of lead actress Anna Skellern.
Script...I mean i couldn't say anything to say because throughout this decide there was no horror movie about witchcraft.You know all this decide there was lots of movie about magic or like that but horror because of that Nobody didn't even thought it all craps about witchcraft.Im totally agree acting wasn't so good but Even producer was thought that This movie C class horror but no.What i tried to mean is its sorcery it wasn't even need fancy visual effect and they didn't also they needn't big great actors they didn't.It may not be perfect or so scary but its well written and well directed.All in all; Years later from Blair Witch Project somebody remember there was a kind of horror movie about Witchcraft And That somebody made it, made it how it should been!.
Didn't really know what I was getting when I got the DVD but felt adventurous and certainly didn't regret it.This film is the vision of late Andrew Hull, on how to translate an old myth into our modern age where the cult of the perfect body leads to temptations and treacheries.
It explores the laws of attraction, the Femme Fatale idea in a way that seems to me inspired by the French New Wave.More down to earth, it's a bunch of young people marooned on a seemingly desert island, there's lots of blood, 4 little known actors but with great potential.The film is beautifully lit i thought by Will Humphries who's been working in the camera department for US block busters i think and i recommend it if you feel like seeing an unusual, independent and original horror..
underrated film....listen to the Siren!.
So, you look at the cover art of this movie, right?
You see a woman holding a knife, she looks tempting, and you think you're in for another high body count slasher flick, right?
Sorry, but Siren is not a slasher movie, does that disappoint you?
Slasher movies have been done many times before, there's a whole list of 'em waiting for you, you can't tell me you've seen them all.
It combines drama, mystery, and suspense so much, that at times you forget you're even watching a horror movie.
Most of the movie takes place on an island, where odd things happen, and discoveries are made.
To really understand this film, it's better to NOT know what to expect, which makes it tricky in writing a review, because this is not one you want spoilers on, and I can only hope the other reviews haven't spoiled too much.
Now, I'm not going to lie, it's not a perfect movie, sure, there's a few scenes where you're going to say "Yeah, right...oh sure!
If you're even expecting a violent horror movie, I would surely steer you away from this one.
Nobody knows why this seductive, sexy female is singing these insanely beautiful songs, that has such impact on listeners, that by listening to it, their ears bleed...it just happens.
It's not going to answer all your questions as to what is going on on this island, in fact, after it's over, you may have felt like you just watched an hour and a half episode of LOST.
It's an underrated film....cover your ears, if you can, and avoid hearing the Siren!.
Pure Art. If you expect some stupid and primitive horror slasher with lots of blood and gore than stay away from this movie.
It plays with the Greek mythology about Odysseus and the Sirens.
Their songs drive everyone insane.The story here is about a young couple, Ken and Rachel who went on a yacht trip with their best friend Marco.
Silka turns out to be a Siren.
I won't spoil the ending here but as I said: it's mystery not horror, more in the style of the Spanish cult movie "Amer" and films like "The Ring".I like especially the surreal scenes in this movie and the brilliant cinematography.
Rent Ondine if you want to see a GOOD siren\silka flick.
(In the first movie, the character Ondine calls herself a silka, while in SIREN the title character says her name is Silka.) Let's explore a few of the answers.
ONDINE is a family drama\mystery in which the audience cares about the characters because of great acting, while SIREN is a horror\mystery in which watchers can only hope the cast kills each other off as quickly as possible, since no one delivers a convincing performance.
Whereas ONDINE is extremely well-plotted with unpredictable plot twists which make perfect sense in hindsight, SIREN is the sort of travesty which could have happened if the producers of the TV hit LOST had hired actors without talent and appointed Ulli Lommel to direct them in their island misadventures.
The Bermuda Triangle in the Med. The best part of this movie is the opening scene which has no relation to to the main storyline, but i liked it as a nice piece of misdirection.
Later on in the film i am thinking are they ripping off Dead Calm when they pick up the survivor, but alas i know its not already because i have read the blurb on the DVD cover.To make the ancient Greek myth of the Siren in a contemporary movie setting earns a point for a nice try but the execution is dismal.
As in Dust Devil a female springs a surprise on the demon/entity by killing it only to become herself the demon/entity...and so it goes on.Although never fully explained, the Siren seemed to be collecting the bodies of her victims in a boat buried in the middle of the island.
Upon seeing the shipwrecks off the coast i begin to wonder does the Sirens' evil influence extend far beyond the shores of the island as no one has bothered searching for which at this stage must be thousands of missing people..
It's not scary, it's not profound, it's not suspenseful, it's certainly not "art." It's simply one long maddening prologue waiting for a story that never comes....
Most scenes have no explanation or apparently meaning to them at all, or reason for them being in the movie whatsoever.
There's nothing about this film which grabs your attention, there's no suspense, no intrigue, and by the end of it you're left caring very little about anything that happened over the course of it.All in all, Siren seems to be an excuse to put out a half thought through vague nod to the Sirens myth just so that they can be 'original' by including a couple of female same-sex seduction scenes.Best avoided.