Not a remake of 1956's THE SHE-CREATURE, but a surprisingly imaginative made-for-cable horror picture. The year is 1905, and Irish carnie Angus Shaw (Rufus Sewell) and his girlfriend, actress Lillie (Carla Gugino) — who plays a mermaid in his bogus sideshow of wonders — are looking for a change. They've already booked passage for the US when they meet Mr. Woolrich (Aubrey Morris), a drunken patron of the show who's sitting on an astonishing secret: Woolrich has a real, live mermaid (Rya Kihlstedt) trapped in an oversized tank in his gloomy home. Ignoring Woolrich's impassioned warnings that mermaids are dangerous, Angus and his partner-in-crime, Bailey (Ren...
Released:
2001
Rated:
R
Length:
87 mins