Sunday, 28 November 2021

VOD: Siren (dir: Gregg Bishop, 2016)

"Well, that's not good..."

Think of The Hangover reimagined as a low-budget horror and you have the set-up for Siren, as a boorish group embark on a stag weekend, are lured to a 'special' nightclub hidden way off the beaten track and... that is where the predictability ends.  Taking in classical female mythology, body horror and Hostel-style torture, Siren may be at times chaotic and seemingly randomly aimless, but it is rarely dull and keeps bowling along with cheerful abandon, bags of energy, some decent effects work and a fair amount of creativity that punches above its weight

 

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