Siren

It's surprisingly great, fun movie! The actors were okay, but that "I like you." girl is always creepy, and she does a fine job. I love how they made this movie based on Greek mythology. I think it's a fine horror/fantasy movie. I was a fan of Hannah Fierman's character from segment 'Amateur Night', but after watching SiREN makes me love her even more.

I'd give it a solid 7/10.

A week before Jonah's wedding day his brother has organised a stag party for him and a couple of his best friends. He takes them to Garden City, which he claims to be the wildest town on the East Coast. They head into a strip club and quickly realise the place isn't close to what they hoped. Then a man at the bar tells them he knows where the real action is. They follow him to a large remote house, called 50n/40w, where proprietor, Mr Nyx, tells them he can arrange a special experience for Jonah which won't involve cheating on his fiancée. Jonah sees a strange woman, named Lily, behind a glass screen and as she sings he has erotic memories. When it is over he becomes convinced that she is being held against her will so determines to save her... the only problem is she isn't really human; she is a succubus and Mr Nyx wants her returned. It is soon clear that the group are in for a very unpleasant time; one they won't all survive.

When I watched this I had no idea that it was connected to the film VHS; that didn't matter though. The story isn't exactly complicated; it didn't need to be. It starts well enough; it doesn't waste too much time introducing the characters and once they are at 50n/40w things become weird fairly quickly. They also become quite violent; most disturbingly when Nyx has one of Jonah's friends tortured. Lily is an impressive monster; much of the time she is naked but lighting frequently makes it less obvious; her facial design when she shows her demonic side is pretty cool. The acting was solid enough; not great but better than one often gets in low budget horror; Hannah Fierman, in particular, impressed as Lily despite not saying much. Overall a decent little horror movie; well worth a watch if you have ninety minutes to kill.

As a fan of the first V/H/S, particularly the segment upon which this film is based, Amateur Night, this prequel-sequel does not do the series justice. What made the first film great was the romantic element, you just couldn't help but fall in love with Lily. She was the cute, quiet, shy girl who "likes you." (Of course, with quite the dark secret, but that's part of the appeal to us sick ones.) This film rushes every encounter with Lily, and does next to nothing when it comes to expanding any sort of story surrounding her. Not to mention, she seemed to change from a succubus to a siren somewhere in between these two films.

I will concede, however, that SiREN does add some interesting details. Take Mr. Nyx, for example. A "man" that appears not to age and owns a supernatural strip club? Again, my gripe is that the film did not expand much on the details. You're just expected to run with it, "A supernatural strip club with cult-like outfits and memory leech drinks? Of coooouuurrrse!"

In summation, if the film had focused just a tad more on the details, fleshed out the story a bit, amped up or added more romance/sexy demon scenes, this movie would've been exactly what the fans wanted. Damn shame it wasn't.

When I heard this spin-off was actually happening; I was at first surprised while also really excited at the possibilities for the story. I am a big fan of the V/H/S movie and Lily's segment was by far my favorite part. It had the right amount of mystery/suspense/gore to leave me infatuated and wanting more.

Fast-forward to the Siren movie and we are given a prequel story to Lily. Much like the segment, a few guys go out looking for a good time but eventually find themselves in a very dangerous situation.

This movie is for a very select demographic, that I just happened to belong.That demographic is the pro Lily demographic where when Lily appears in a movie I'm going to find something to like about it.The acting in this is mainly a miss with a couple of exceptions and the story does have its clichés. There were some other interesting concepts (mainly one) presented but were not fleshed out enough, sad to say. The main and only reason someone should watch this is for Lily. The story really drags without out her as the guys were not interesting in the least.The hints of excellence comes from the inclusion of a new creature that helps carry the story along. Lily's action scenes were also a plus and her characters overall direction throughout the movie. After a good chunk of time the story picks up and for the most part I can safely say I enjoyed what I saw.

I guess as a warning if you are considering giving this movie a try. If you are not a fan of sex and violence in your movies this is something you should stay far away from as that is 85% if not more of this movie. In the stories weak spots they seemed to crank up the those scenes to 11.

Siren is a spin off from the VHS films, which of course mixes up a variety of horror tales, in new and amusing ways.

There's bloody bucket loads of black humour on offer here, alongside a few "sort of" creepy zany scares all bundled up with a weird tale of unrequited monster love. Its a good mix that's calculatedly camp and, in my view, all the better for it.

As you might expect, given this flicks VHS pedigree, there's a lot of mixing of familiar horror themes and a few moments that feel like tributes to other horror film's. Most notably and without giving too much away, this films ending is somewhat reminiscent of the closing scenes in the first Jeepers Creepers film.

If you like your horror a little "way out" and "off beat" Siren is definitely worth a look. Seven out of ten from me.