She Creature, Mermaid Shreds Men

Unicorns and mermaids...yawn.  Okay, not many have done much with unicorns, at least in horror. Mermaids, however, have been introduced in plots in these scary movies.  I prefer them to clowns. This is what we will be tackling today.  Add in the sultry Carla Gugino as a babe in peril with a special relationship with the sultry mermaid and we have a winner. Today we will look at 2001's "She Creature," directed by Sebastian Guitierrez.  Oh, by the way, Stan Winston is one of the producers!

In 1905 a carnival in Ireland is closing and getting ready to sail to New York. Angus leads it and has a neat act that entails a west Indian zombie (Reno Wilson) busting loose and getting ready to murder the audience. A siren sings from the next tent over...it is a mermaid. Her sweet voice calms the murderous west Indian fiend. In reality, Angus' GF Lily (Gugino) dresses as a mermaid and the crowd eats it up. Through a weird set of events, an eccentric guy in a mansion shows Angus and Lily what he has locked in his dungeon...a caged aquarium containing a sultry mermaid (Rya Kilstedt). She's nude and doesn't speak English. Uh oh...she seems to develop a psychic connection with Lily. Through violence, Angus and Bailey steal the mermaid and bring it on the ship with them to America.  Lily doesn't know Angus and Bailey accidentally killed the old man in their quest to abscond with the sea creature.

Okay, the mermaid gets into Lily's head...but why?  You'll see.  When a crewmember of the vessel threatens Lily with rape, the mermaid manages to get loose and eat him. Now Lily is drawn to the sultry and naked mermaid.  She wants to help it.  She has also uncovered its mysteries. As the mermaid outsmarts its guards and gets loose some more, more sailors are ripped apart.  It also enters Lily's mind as she is having steamy pre-marital sex with Angus.  Lily then discovers why she has nothing to fear from the mermaid...and it is horrific.

Will this mermaid make it to New York?  Will the crew endure the same fate as the crew of the Demeter suffered? What does the mermaid have planned for the lovely Lily?  This is a good one. However predictable, both Carla Gugino and Rya Kihlstedt are sultry.  For a good old fashioned plot, and some nice gore and cheese, see "She Creature."