Shout! Studios, the distribution and production arm of Shout! Factory, has taken North American rights to Russian horror thriller The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead, reports Variety.
In Lake of the Dead, directed by Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy…
“An evil Mermaid falls in love with Marina’s fiancé Roman and aims to keep him away from Marina in her Kingdom of Death under water. The Mermaid is a young woman who drowned a few centuries ago. Marina only has one week to overcome her fear of the dark water, to remain human in the deathly fight with the monsters and not to become one herself.”
The cast includes Viktoriya Agalakova, Igor Khripunov, Efim Petrunin, Nikita Elenev and Sesil Plezhe.
The movie is inspired by a Russian legend that girls who drown turn into mermaids, staying in the rivers and lakes forever. At night, they seduce men with their singing, and lure them to the bottom of the lake, where they become guards, protecting the mermaids.
