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The Lure [Sub: English]
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.
















29 January 1981, Bydgoszcz, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland



4 February 1938, Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]

1969, Poland


4 May 1954, Kalisz, Wielkopolskie, Poland



1963, Poland


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March 02, 2017
It's sexy, fearless, fun and unrepentantly nasty.
March 09, 2017
There is no continuity in narrative or character and it's all shot in an elliptical, heavily stylized, gaudily lit (much of it looks like it's shot through an algae-filmed aquarium) collage.
March 16, 2017
If you're only going to watch a single '80s-themed musical-horror mermaid cannibal comedy this year, The Lure should be the one. And rest assured that whatever the rumoured remake of Splash offers, it won't be able to top this for sheer weirdness.
March 17, 2017
The Lure is a bit of a mess, both narratively and in terms of gruesome gore. But it's a supremely sexy, and exceedingly watchable, fish tale that's different from everything else on the menu.
April 27, 2017
It is, in a word, bonkers, but it's the kind of stylish and delightful bonkers that makes you revel in its excess, and I'll take as many movies like this as we can get.
March 17, 2017
The result is hallucinatory and puzzling, but never anything less than captivating.
March 16, 2017
Unless you're an alternative-film buff with a fierce attraction to the offbeat, the allure of The Lure may be lost.
March 16, 2017
Too bad the shipwreck of a screenplay can't keep up with the visuals, which are pretty great ...
March 02, 2017
A woozily entrancing mash-up, shimmying by itself in the corner of the horror-musical canon and sure to earn quizzically appreciative stares from genre enthusiasts.
April 14, 2017
A nod to politically correct species reassignment surgery livens the third act, but the film eventually sinks under the weight of its own silly excess.
June 02, 2017
In a multiplex universe in which the fantastical is now commonplace, The Lure compels us to take a bite with a cinematic temptation that is refreshing, unpredictable and somewhat dangerous.