Top 55: Merfolk Edition
by JCarama | created - 15 Mar 2021 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicHorror/horror-adjacent movies featuring mermaids, mermen, sirens, selkies, nymphs, gill-men/women or other assorted aquatic humanoid creatures.
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1. The Lure (2015)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In 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.
Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska | Stars: Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, Kinga Preis, Andrzej Konopka
Votes: 9,798 | Gross: $0.10M
2. Dagon (2001)
R | 98 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A 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.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño, Macarena Gómez
Votes: 21,054
3. The Shape of Water (2017)
R | 123 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
At 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.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones
Votes: 447,823 | Gross: $63.86M
4. Spring (I) (2014)
Not Rated | 109 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
A 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.
Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Stars: Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Francesco Carnelutti, Nick Nevern
Votes: 31,413 | Gross: $0.05M
5. The Lighthouse (I) (2019)
R | 109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Director: Robert Eggers | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes
Votes: 255,220 | Gross: $0.43M
6. The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Five 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.
Director: Drew Goddard | Stars: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz
Votes: 450,950 | Gross: $42.07M
7. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
G | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A 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.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno
Votes: 34,452 | Gross: $1.30M
8. Blue My Mind (2017)
97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An outwardly normal teenage girl faces overwhelming body transformations that put the very nature of her existence into question.
Director: Lisa Brühlmann | Stars: Luna Wedler, Zoë Pastelle Holthuizen, Regula Grauwiller, Georg Scharegg
Votes: 3,448
9. She Creature (2001 TV Movie)
R | 91 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
In 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.
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Carla Gugino, Jim Piddock, Reno Wilson
Votes: 3,850
10. Cold Skin (2017)
TV-14 | 108 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A 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.
Director: Xavier Gens | Stars: Ray Stevenson, David Oakes, Aura Garrido, Winslow M. Iwaki
Votes: 18,057
11. Leviathan (1989)
R | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Perched 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.
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern
Votes: 23,802 | Gross: $15.70M
12. Underwater (2020)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A 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.
Director: William Eubank | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Mamoudou Athie, T.J. Miller
Votes: 97,237 | Gross: $17.29M
13. Evolution (2015)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The 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?
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic | Stars: Max Brebant, Roxane Duran, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Mathieu Goldfeld
Votes: 7,606
14. Nanny (2022)
R | 99 min | Drama, Horror
Piecing 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.
Director: Nikyatu Jusu | Stars: Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls, Morgan Spector
Votes: 8,001
15. La Sirena (2017)
Not Rated | 24 min | Short, Drama, Horror
LA SIRENA is a psychosexual fairy tale about a woman who surrenders to her inner mermaid to avenge her broken heart. Or is it?
Director: Rosita Lama Muvdi | Stars: Jordan Monaghan, Kelsey Reinhardt, Darrel Cherney, Vera Cherny
Votes: 103
16. Sweetheart (I) (2019)
PG-13 | 82 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A 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.
Director: J.D. Dillard | Stars: Kiersey Clemons, Emory Cohen, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Andrew Crawford
Votes: 9,700
17. The Mermaid (2016)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Shan, 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.
Director: Stephen Chow | Stars: Chao Deng, Show Lo, Yuqi Zhang, Yun Lin
Votes: 10,172 | Gross: $3.23M
18. Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Passed | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Men capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva
Votes: 7,031
19. The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
Approved | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist captures the Creature and turns him into an air-breather, only for him to escape and start killing.
Director: John Sherwood | Stars: Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden, Gregg Palmer
Votes: 4,026
20. The Kindred (1987)
R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A 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.
Directors: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow | Stars: Rod Steiger, Kim Hunter, David Allen Brooks, Amanda Pays
Votes: 2,506 | Gross: $2.41M
21. Lady in the Water (2006)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Apartment 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.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban
Votes: 103,806 | Gross: $42.29M
22. Creature (1998)
Not Rated | 120 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
An 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...
Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Kim Cattrall, Colm Feore, Cress Williams
Votes: 2,988
23. Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
R | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Humanoid 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.
Directors: Barbara Peeters, Jimmy T. Murakami | Stars: Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub
Votes: 10,516
24. Mermaid Down (2019)
91 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A 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.
Director: Jeffrey Grellman | Stars: Meggan Kaiser, Phillip Andre Botello, Eryn Rea, Alexandra Bokova
Votes: 11,142
25. The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009)
78 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Jeff 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. ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Saine | Stars: Kyle Davis, Devin McGinn, Matt Bauer, Honor Bliss
Votes: 1,909
26. The Siren (I) (2019)
80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man searches the lake for the monster that murdered his husband, while that monster falls in love with an unsuspecting visitor.
Director: Perry Blackshear | Stars: Margaret Ying Drake, MacLeod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel
Votes: 685
27. What Lies Below (2020)
TV-MA | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A 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.
Director: Braden R. Duemmler | Stars: Ema Horvath, Troy Iwata, Danny Corbo, Mena Suvari
Votes: 8,498
28. Siren (III) (2010)
R | 80 min | Horror, Thriller
Strange goings on ensue, when a few friends on a sailboat find an island with a beautiful lone female inhabitant.
Director: Andrew Hull | Stars: Eoin Macken, Anna Skellern, Tereza Srbova, Tarek Anthony Jabre
Votes: 1,984
29. Gancore Gud (2011)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Apisit Opasaimlikit | Stars: Apisit Opasaimlikit, Natee Aekwijit, Suranan Chumtaratorn, Kittipong Khamsat
Votes: 242
30. The Island of the Fishmen (1979)
R | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Aquatic creatures threaten the existence of a mysterious island.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson, Beryl Cunningham
Votes: 2,473
31. Shallow Water (2017)
19 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
A 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.
Director: Sandy Collora | Stars: Lisa Roumain, Kurt Carley, Jason Liles, Todd Christian Hunter
Votes: 90
32. Oh! My Zombie Mermaid (2004)
100 min | Action, Drama
Hashimoto plays a professional wrestler whose wife involuntarily turns into a mermaid.
Directors: Naoki Kubo, Terry Ito | Stars: Shinya Hashimoto, Sonim, Shirô Sano, Nicholas Pettas
Votes: 84
33. When the Screaming Stops (1973)
X | 85 min | Fantasy, Horror
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Amando de Ossorio | Stars: Tony Kendall, Helga Liné, Silvia Tortosa, Josefina Jartin
Votes: 999
34. Proteus (1995)
R | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Group 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Keen | Stars: Craig Fairbrass, Toni Barry, William Marsh, Jennifer Calvert
Votes: 1,223
35. Guinea Pig 5: Mermaid in the Manhole (1988 Video)
63 min | Horror
An 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.
Director: Hideshi Hino | Stars: Shigeru Saiki, Mari Somei, Masami Hisamoto, Gô Rijû
Votes: 2,513
36. Erzulie (2022)
86 min | Adventure, Fantasy
A reunion between 4 friends quickly goes awry when they find themselves face to face with Erzulie the swamp mermaid goddess.
Director: Christine W Chen | Stars: Zoe Graham, Jason Kirkpatrick, Isaiah LaBorde, Alexander Biglane
Votes: 218
37. Killer Mermaid (2014)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Two 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.
Director: Milan Todorovic | Stars: Kristina Klebe, Dragan Micanovic, Natalie Burn, Slobodan Stefanovic
Votes: 3,243
38. City in the Sea (1965)
Unrated | 84 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
In 1903 Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures.
Directors: Jacques Tourneur, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson, Susan Hart
Votes: 2,602
39. Mermaid's Song (2015)
88 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A 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."
Director: Nicholas Humphries | Stars: Iwan Rheon, Katelyn Mager, Brendan Taylor, Jessie Fraser
Votes: 395
40. 1st Bite (2006)
Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Set 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Hunt Hoe | Stars: David La Haye, Leah Pinsent, Napakpapha Nakprasitte, Michael Ironside
Votes: 95
41. Evie (2023)
18+ | 83 min | Horror, Mystery
On a beach, young Evie finds an accursed necklace, unwittingly freeing an evil water demon intent on claiming her and loved ones.
Directors: Dominic Brunt, Jamie Lundy | Stars: Holli Dempsey, Jay Taylor, Michael Smiley, Liam McMahon
Votes: 351
42. Humanoids from the Deep (1996 TV Movie)
R | 86 min | Action, Drama, Horror
While 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... See full summary »
Director: Jeff Yonis | Stars: Emma Samms, Robert Carradine, Justin Walker, Mark Rolston
Votes: 862
43. The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)
Approved | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Irvin Berwick | Stars: Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon, Frank Arvidson
Votes: 1,161
44. Shin yôjo densetsu: seirên (2004)
76 min | Horror
A 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.
Director: Satoshi Torao | Stars: Sora Aoi, Ikki Funaki, Jun'ichi Kawamoto, Hideaki Mizuki
Votes: 224
45. The She-Creature (1956)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror
A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Chester Morris, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Lance Fuller
Votes: 1,963
46. Mermaid: The Lake of the Dead (2018)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An 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.
Directors: Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy, Christopher Bevins | Stars: Viktoriya Agalakova, Efim Petrunin, Sofya Shidlovskaya, Nikita Elenev
Votes: 1,828
47. Beyond Atlantis (1973)
PG | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A 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.
Director: Eddie Romero | Stars: Patrick Wayne, John Ashley, Leigh Christian, Sid Haig
Votes: 767
48. House by the Lake (2017)
Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Adam Gierasch | Stars: Natasha Bassett, Mark Berry, Michael Bowen, James Callis
Votes: 508
49. D-Railed (2018)
Not Rated | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Passengers 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.
Director: Dale Fabrigar | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Dwayne Standridge, Giovannie Espiritu, Catherine Healy
Votes: 2,097
50. A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio (2019)
104 min | Horror, Mystery
Rod, 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.
Directors: Oliver Park, Jason Bognacki, A.J. Briones, Joshua Long, Sergio Morcillo, Adam O'Brien, Luciano Onetti, Nicolás Onetti, Pablo Pastor, Matthew Richards | Stars: Patricia Arizmendi, Adrián Barriopedro, Claudia Beattie, Louisa Bland
Votes: 2,696
51. Hypothermia (2010)
Not Rated | 73 min | Horror
Two 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.
Director: James Felix McKenney | Stars: Michael Rooker, Blanche Baker, Benjamin Forster, Amy Chang
Votes: 1,824
52. The Barge People (2018)
83 min | Horror
Set 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.
Director: Charlie Steeds | Stars: Kate Speak, Mark McKirdy, Makenna Guyler, Natalie Martins
Votes: 578
53. Demon of Paradise (1987)
R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
Hunters 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.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Kathryn Witt, William Steis, Laura Banks, Frederick Bailey
Votes: 646
54. Bad Blood: The Movie (2016)
TV-14 | 80 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A classic werewolf flick with an amphibious twist; it's a race against time to find the antidote.
Director: Tim Reis | Stars: Mary Malloy, Vikas Adam, Troy Halverson, Brian Troxell
Votes: 397
55. Mermaid Isle (2020)
80 min | Horror, Thriller
In 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, ... See full summary »
Director: Jason Mills | Stars: Samuel Buchanon, Garnet Campbell, Dan Martinez, Kiana Passmore
Votes: 91
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