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Siren Movie Review

Four guys out for a bachelor party end up in a mysterious house; here, they help a woman held against her will escape--what they don't realize is the woman isn't quite human. A spin-off of the first (and best) segment from the anthology film V/H/S, this movie basically expands on the story of succubus Lily (Hannah Fierman), as she finds another guy to obsess over.

"I like you"

I was excited when I heard this 2016 film was being made, but for whatever reason, seemed to just miss it when I would go to watch it. When I stumbled across it while scrolling through the wasteland that is horror films on Netflix, I couldn't wait to see what they did with this character, by far the most interesting of any of the V/H/S films. Unfortunately, save for the opening sequence, we spend a lot of this movie waiting for Lily to make an appearance. In the meantime, we have the four guys--surprisingly, they managed to make two of them likable, while one is obnoxious enough to make you want to kill him yourself, and the fourth guy is just there to fill up the car. The mystery house actually has a couple other creatures, which is interesting, but the CGI with them, and Lily, for that matter, is a struggle. The more we find out about the owner of the "club" that is housed where Lily is captured, the more we roll our eyes--to say a large bit of this is borrowed from Hostel is being kind. Another issue I had with the Lily character is how compassionate she was made--did we forget at some point she is a demon?! She is made into a hero of sorts in the end, and while her destructive rampage was awesome, her sympathetic side after said destruction is baffling, and the final scene somehow manages to simultaneously fix this issue and make it worse. As a side note, if you have seen V/H/S and are wondering if this movie is a found footage one, it's not. In spite of all my complaints, Siren really is not a bad horror film. It brings some scares, bloodshed, decent characters, and an interesting story--it just doesn't live up to its potential. 

On A Scale Of One To Ten: 6

Siren Movie Trailer