Siren - 2016

Published: May 29, 2022, 9:19 p.m.

The VHS series comes to an end, for now. Siren was released in 2016 as a standalone film. The "amateur nights" short turned feature-length film, stayed true to the franchise, while still being enough to have its own life. We get returning actors from the VHS movies, portraying different characters, Aside from Hannah Fierman, who reprises her role as Lily, the siren. 


Everyone has that one family member who's obnoxious, destructive, and an overall narcissist. Your bachelor party is supposed to be filled with booze, gazing at strippers, and venturing back home. All while, sleeping off what you can in hopes to read your vows in a non-vomiting manner. Never in your wildest nightmares, would you ever want to be the reason some Demon bat would latch onto your soul and refuse to give you up to some mere human. I'm sure her singing was wonderful, But this is why you never follow a dude named "drunk guy" to fulfill some mediocre sexcapade adventures. 


Even though you chose to enter this cult-like house, seeing all the conspicuous people in the house. Cleary the billy bob like a bodyguard, wearing a Phantom of the opera mask would cause a rational person to heed caution. Maybe I haven't been to many "Cirque du so lame" events, But I would be out of that house with a steady pace after noticing that. The underground bar begs a question, Who paid for all of that? Let me get this straight, Mr. Nyx takes leeches in the necks as payments? How does that fare with construction companies? Sure, give me the ol' "I robbed a bank in the 80's memory leech, and I'll build your bar." The building bleeds with other cursed doors, so many open and closed. It's hiding other terrors we will never know about. Lily cannot be the only creature who's locked up and used. Ash herself, the dollar general Medusa was Mr. Nyx's sidekick. We see a random girl running down the halls as Jonah, rand, and Lily try to escape. So, there has to be a cyclops or some other monster lurking behind those doors.


If you captured some monster from the underworld, whose powers were only dampened by gas station earbuds, would you keep the key to unleash its power attached to some truck driver who moonlights as security on the weekends? It's not that difficult to keep that thing locked inside another locked area. 


Time has shown that irrational people continue to make irrational decisions, despite their lives at stake. If a bat-like creature, who I saw rip someone to shreds more than twice my size, says to me "I like you" Then by Lord Horror Jesus himself, I'm marrying that thing. I'm not answering a call to my future wife 20 yards from the thing that just sodomized me. I'll send her a quick text. "Miss ya, smooches." It's unfortunate that his last interaction with his new wife is having her watch him being taken away thigh tight into the stormy night sky. But, I feel like she already knew. I mean who doesn't jump awake to a glass spearing the wooden floor 10 inches away from you. The only thing that lifts you up, is your husband being literally swooped away by a talon-footed winged demon.


The VHS series comes to an end, for now. Siren was released in 2016 as a standalone film. The "amateur nights" short turned feature-length film, stayed true to the franchise, while still being enough to have its own life. We get returning actors from the VHS movies, portraying different characters, Aside from Hannah Fierman, who reprises her role as Lily, the siren. It's a bittersweet moment to end this Movie series. It grew on me, mentally and physically. I've found a new respect for found footage films, while also keeping the same mentality and same brand aspirin for the shaky injections this genre implements.  I now need to find a random man named Drunk Guy, so he can escort me to a woman named Ash and "leech" all my problems away.