An evil Mermaid falls in love with Marina's fiancé Roman and aims to keep him away from Marina in her Kingdom of Death under water. The Mermaid is a young woman who drowned a few centuries ago. Marina only has one week to overcome her fear of the dark water, to remain human in the deathly fight with the monsters and not to become one herself.
Practical Effects
Mermaid design actually haunts your dreams
Cinematography
Murky lake water never looked this gorgeous
Production
Russian dacha aesthetic as slow-burn dread
Director
Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Slavic rusalka folklore where drowned women become vengeful spirits, but the film twists this by making her romantically competitive rather than purely malevolent.
Director Podgaevsky made this back-to-back with The Bride (2017), creating an unofficial Russian folk horror duology about cursed matrimony.
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