Top 55: Merfolk Edition
Horror/horror-adjacent movies featuring mermaids, mermen, sirens, selkies, nymphs, gill-men/women or other assorted aquatic humanoid creatures.
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- DirectorAgnieszka SmoczynskaStarsMarta MazurekMichalina OlszanskaKinga PreisIn Warsaw, a pair of mermaid sisters are adopted into a cabaret. While one seeks love with humans the other hungers to dine on the human population of the city.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsEzra GoddenFrancisco RabalRaquel MeroñoA boating accident runs a young man and woman ashore in a decrepit Spanish fishing town which they discover is in the grips of an ancient sea god and its monstrous half human offspring.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsSally HawkinsOctavia SpencerMichael ShannonAt a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
- DirectorJustin BensonAaron MoorheadStarsLou Taylor PucciNadia HilkerFrancesco CarneluttiA young man in a personal tailspin flees from US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.
- DirectorRobert EggersStarsRobert PattinsonWillem DafoeValeriia KaramanTwo lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
- DirectorDrew GoddardStarsKristen ConnollyChris HemsworthAnna HutchisonFive college friends head out to a remote cabin for a getaway, but things don't go as planned when they start getting killed. They soon discover that there is more to the cabin than it seems.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsRichard CarlsonJulie AdamsRichard DenningA strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.
- DirectorLisa BrühlmannStarsLuna WedlerZoë Pastelle HolthuizenRegula GrauwillerAn outwardly normal teenage girl faces overwhelming body transformations that put the very nature of her existence into question.
- DirectorSebastian GutierrezStarsRufus SewellCarla GuginoJim PiddockIn Ireland, two carnies abduct a mermaid and decide to take her to America. In their sea route, the seductive and mysterious creature reveals an uncontrollable darker side.
- DirectorXavier GensStarsRay StevensonDavid OakesAura GarridoA young man arrives at a remote island to take a post of weather observer only to find himself defending the watchtower from deadly creatures which live in the island shores.
- DirectorGeorge P. CosmatosStarsPeter WellerRichard CrennaAmanda PaysPerched on the hull of a wrecked Soviet freighter, a team of deep-sea miners led by head oceanographer Steven Beck comes face to face with a mutant creature that's the product of a failed genetic experiment.
- DirectorWilliam EubankStarsKristen StewartVincent CasselMamoudou AthieA crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
- DirectorLucile HadzihalilovicStarsMax BrebantRoxane DuranJulie-Marie ParmentierThe only residents of young Nicholas' sea-side town are women and boys. When he sees a corpse in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be hospitalised?
- DirectorNikyatu JusuStarsAnna DiopMichelle MonaghanSinqua WallsPiecing together a new life in New York City while caring for the child of an Upper East Side family, immigrant nanny Aisha is forced to confront a concealed truth that threatens to shatter her precarious American Dream.
- DirectorRosita Lama MuvdiStarsJordan MonaghanKelsey ReinhardtDarrel CherneyLA SIRENA is a psychosexual fairy tale about a woman who surrenders to her inner mermaid to avenge her broken heart. Or is it?
- DirectorJ.D. DillardStarsKiersey ClemonsEmory CohenHanna Mangan LawrenceA woman washes ashore a small uninhabited island after an accident. The situation turns from bad to worse when she realizes there is a mysterious creature hunting at night.
- DirectorStephen ChowStarsChao DengShow LoYuqi ZhangShan, a mermaid, is sent to assassinate Xuan, a developer who threatens the ecosystem of her race, but ends up falling in love with him instead.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsJohn AgarLori NelsonJohn BromfieldMen capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.
- DirectorJohn SherwoodStarsJeff MorrowRex ReasonLeigh SnowdenA scientist captures the Creature and turns him into an air-breather, only for him to escape and start killing.
- DirectorStephen CarpenterJeffrey ObrowStarsRod SteigerKim HunterDavid Allen BrooksA geneticist takes his assistants to his old family home to locate the deadly product of his late mother's revolutionary research into rapid human evolution--his monstrous, tentacled baby brother--before a mad scientist gets to him first.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsPaul GiamattiBryce Dallas HowardJeffrey WrightApartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
- StarsCraig T. NelsonKim CattrallColm FeoreAn amphibious shark-like monster terrorizes an abandoned secret military base and the people who live on the island it is located on. A marine biologist, as well as several other people, try to stop it before it is too late...
- DirectorBarbara PeetersJimmy T. MurakamiStarsDoug McClureAnn TurkelVic MorrowHumanoid sea creatures start killing a fishing town's residents, and raping their women. It's up to the townsfolk and a visiting biologist to fight back and fend them off.
- DirectorJeffrey GrellmanStarsMeggan KaiserAlexandra BokovaPhillip Andre BotelloA mermaid is ripped from the Pacific, her tail is chopped off and she's thrown into a mental home where no one believes she is a mermaid.
- DirectorHenry SaineStarsKyle DavisDevin McGinnMatt BauerJeff is an ordinary guy that is stuck at a dead end job with a boring life, but when a strange old man gives him an Ancient relic and tells him that he is the last bloodline of H.P. Lovecraft, He and his friend Charlie embark on an adventure to protect the relic piece from falling into the hands of the Starspawn and his minions that wish to reunite the relic and release Cthulhu back into the world.
- DirectorPerry BlackshearStarsMargaret Ying DrakeMacLeod AndrewsEvan DumouchelA man searches the lake for the monster that murdered his husband, while that monster falls in love with an unsuspecting visitor.
- DirectorBraden R. DuemmlerStarsEma HorvathTroy IwataDanny CorboA 16-year-old girl returns home from camp and learns that her mother has a new boyfriend, one she intends to marry. A man whose charm, intelligence and beauty make him look like he's not human at all.
- DirectorAndrew HullStarsEoin MackenAnna SkellernTereza SrbovaStrange goings on ensue, when a few friends on a sailboat find an island with a beautiful lone female inhabitant.
- DirectorApisit OpasaimlikitStarsApisit OpasaimlikitNatee AekwijitSuranan ChumtaratornA Hiphop group called Gancore Club being led by Joey Boy will find themselves stuck on Mermaid Island after a video shoot has gone terribly wrong. After some fun in the sun and a few strange events everything will change. The group will find themselves chased by the local villagers, different monsters and zombies! Has a Blair Witch Project/Cloverfield feel to movie.Original is subtitled.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsBarbara BachClaudio CassinelliRichard JohnsonAquatic creatures threaten the existence of a mysterious island.
- DirectorSandy ColloraStarsLisa RoumainKurt CarleyJason LilesA group of adventurers arrive at a fabled fishing spot in Mexico only to realize that they are being hunted by a creature that lurks in the dark, shallow waters and that help will not be arriving any time soon.
- DirectorNaoki KuboTerry ItoStarsShinya HashimotoSonimShirô SanoHashimoto plays a professional wrestler whose wife involuntarily turns into a mermaid.
- DirectorAmando de OssorioStarsTony KendallHelga LinéSilvia TortosaThe legendary Loreley has been living for centuries in a grotto beneath the river Rhein in Germany. Every night when the moon is full, she turns into a reptile-like creature craving for human blood. When one girl after another of a nearby boarding school is killed by her, a hunter named Sirgurd is engaged to kill the monster.
- DirectorBob KeenStarsCraig FairbrassToni BarryWilliam MarshGroup of heroin smugglers finds shelter on abandoned oil rig after their ship had exploded. Soon they find that the oil rig was just cover for biological experiment. One of the results is Charlie - shape-shifting monster with ability to absorb the memory of its victims. However, even such creatures have their own bad habits.
- DirectorHideshi HinoStarsShigeru SaikiMari SomeiMasami HisamotoAn artist rescues a mermaid in a sewer who develops bleeding sores all over her body, paints a portrait with her oozes and eventually disjoints her.
- DirectorChristine W ChenStarsZoe GrahamTimeca M. SerettiAlexander BiglaneA reunion between 4 friends quickly goes awry when they find themselves face to face with Erzulie the swamp mermaid goddess.
- DirectorMilan TodorovicStarsKristina KlebeDragan MicanovicNatalie BurnTwo young American women go on a Mediterranean vacation and uncover the watery lair of a killer mermaid hidden beneath an abandoned military fortress. What was once a carefree adventure becomes a deadly fight for survival.
- DirectorJacques TourneurIshirô HondaStarsVincent PriceTab HunterDavid TomlinsonIn 1903 Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures.
- DirectorNicholas HumphriesStarsIwan RheonKatelyn MagerBrendan TaylorA young girl with a special gift comes of age during one of the most desolate periods in American history in this dark Dust Bowl fantasy inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid."
- DirectorHunt HoeStarsDavid La HayeLeah PinsentNapakpapha NakprasitteSet on a tropical island in Thailand, the strange plight of a beleaguered chef who, while romancing a mysterious woman, discovers the diabolical Zen of cooking. Following a near death escape, he returns to Montreal and falls hard for the woman of his life who unfortunately craves only his cooking but not his loving. Worse still, strange things surfacing around him indicate that his journey to the Far East has deep, divine implications. The stage is set for him to take the 1st bite of true love and end the cycle of suffering for all involved.
- DirectorDominic BruntJamie LundyStarsHolli DempseyJay TaylorMichael SmileyOn a beach, young Evie finds an accursed necklace, unwittingly freeing an evil water demon intent on claiming her and loved ones.
- DirectorJeff YonisStarsEmma SammsRobert CarradineJustin WalkerWhile a town is in a state of alert, the monster of the sea keeps mutating the townspeople at an alarming rate. A researcher finds a genetic disorder that has been caused by a chemical that has been dumped into the water that has caused the creature to have an alarming appetite.
- DirectorIrvin BerwickStarsLes TremayneForrest LewisJohn HarmonThe monster, which looks like a snarling "Creature from the Black Lagoon," invades a sleepy seaside town. The lighthouse keeper, widowed and estranged from the town folk, has been secretly leaving food out for the monster for years, unaware of its blood lust. When the monster's appetite outstrips the keeper's ability to serve it, bloodless decapitated corpses start to show up.
- DirectorSatoshi ToraoStarsSora AoiIkki FunakiJun'ichi KawamotoA crew of bank robbers whisk a young girl back to their hideout, where they develop plans to rape and kill her. But when one of the crooks turns up dead, they wonder if their intended victim may be a powerful supernatural force.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsChester MorrisTom ConwayCathy DownsA mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
- DirectorSvyatoslav PodgaevskiyChristopher BevinsStarsViktoriya AgalakovaEfim PetruninSofya ShidlovskayaAn aquatic nymph falls obsessively in love with a man and wants to have him with her forever in her underwater kingdom, where she is doomed to spend eternity.
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsPatrick WayneJohn AshleyLeigh ChristianA band of adventurers invade a native island determined to grab a reported fortune in buried treasure. The islanders are just as determined to keep their sacred treasure. Complications ensue.
- DirectorAdam GieraschStarsNatasha BassettMark BerryMichael BowenA struggling married couple try to reconnect at an idyllic lake house, but their relationship is tested when their young daughter begins to fixate on an imaginary friend that may or may not be real.
- DirectorDale FabrigarStarsLance HenriksenDwayne StandridgeGiovannie EspirituPassengers on a train that crashes into a river must decide whether to risk waiting for help in the wreckage or take their chances in the murky depths below.
- DirectorOliver ParkJason BognackiA.J. BrionesStarsPatricia ArizmendiAdrián BarriopedroClaudia BeattieRod, radio DJ, hosts a popular horror-themed show packed with tales of terror for eager listeners. When he receives alarming calls from a horrified child things start to feel off.
- DirectorJames Felix McKenneyStarsMichael RookerBlanche BakerBenjamin ForsterTwo families' idyllic ice-fishing vacation turns deadly when they awaken a creature beneath the frozen lake, forcing them to rely on each other if they want to make it safely back to land. Horror icon Michael Rooker stars.
- DirectorCharlie SteedsStarsKate SpeakMark McKirdyMakenna GuylerSet on the canals amid the glorious British countryside, two sisters and their boyfriends head off for a relaxing weekend away on a barge, unaware of the flesh-eating fish mutants lurking in the water, ready and waiting to feed.
- DirectorCirio H. SantiagoStarsKathryn WittWilliam SteisLaura BanksHunters become the hunted when illegal dynamite disturbs the ageold slumber of a carnivorous lizardman. Resort owner Angela, joins forces with Sheriff Keefer to save tourists from the beast's path of death.
- DirectorTim ReisStarsMary MalloyVikas AdamTroy HalversonA classic werewolf flick with an amphibious twist; it's a race against time to find the antidote.
- DirectorJason MillsStarsSamuel BuchanonGarnet CampbellDan MartinezIn 1983, a young woman was bit by something horrific in a lake on a picturesque island. Her brother and father were both killed after she "turned" into a diseased mermaid. Her mother, Maureen Melhuish, was brought in for questioning and psychiatric evaluation as her story could not be real, or so they thought. More than 30 years later, in this horrifying and thrilling tale, four young friends decide to go to a remote island, where "trespassing" is forbidden. One of the young friends, Toby, wants to propose to his girlfriend, Amy, in a romantic setting where the memory of the proposal would last a lifetime. Their friends, Shelly and Roy, joined the trip for support. Assuming the trip was going to be sappy and romantic, they did not expect their lives to be turned upside down. Shelly falls into the lake where the young woman got bit 33 years ago, and history repeats itself. Frantic to save their friend, the group finds a little run down shack. unbeknownst to them, they run straight into Maureen. In this terrifying thriller, the group will have to stick together to survive. Will they make it or will the disease spread further than ever before?