Line #61 Film/Siren2016


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Yandere}} "I like you"]].]]
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4	''Siren'' (stylized as ''[=SiREN=]'') is a 2016 horror film directed by Gregg Bishop. It's a feature-length adaptation of ''Amateur Night'', a segment from the [[{{Anthology}} anthology film]] ''Film/{{VHS}}'', which was originally directed by David Bruckner.
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6	One week before his wedding, Jonah, along with his groomsmen, hits the road for his StagParty. Ending up in a dull, FamilyFriendlyStripClub, Jonah and his friends are instead invited to a [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday private club]] on the edge of town. Once there, the group are increasingly unnerved by [[TheFreakshow the weird and downright creepy things on display]]... and then [[HumanoidAbomination Lily]] escapes.
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8	And she happens to "[[{{Yandere}} like]]" Jonah.
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10	Watch the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2u-UPQn0Vk here]].
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12	!!This movie provides examples of the following tropes:
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14	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Lily is in love with Jonah, who is not only marrying the woman he loves, but finds out the girl he set free is a demon. It's not played for laughs. At all.
15	%% * AllPartOfTheShow: What the group thinks at first.
16	* AssShove: Lily uses her tail to do this while [[spoiler: she's raping Jonah.]]
17	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Lily falls in love with Jonah because he freed her from Nyx, who was using her as a SexSlave.
18	* BettyAndVeronica: Jonah is Archie, Eve is Betty, his sweet and ordinary fiancée, and Lily is definitely Veronica, a dangerous succubus who is always naked and even kills anyone who tries to separate her from Jonah.
19	* BigBad: Mr. Nyx, a SinisterMinister who's running a hedonistic business that uses demons like [[SuccubiAndIncubi Lily]] as slaves, with Lily herself serving as TheHeavy.
20	* BrownNote: Lily's singing can have various effects on people, from causing them to [[ImmodestOrgasm relive their previous sexual experiences]] to freezing them so she can kill them.
21	* ColdBloodedTorture: Mr. Nyx subjects Rand to this via {{Kneecapping}}.
22	%% * CreepyCathedral: Where Lily is first found, [[spoiler: and where the climax takes place]].
23	%% * CollectorOfTheStrange: Mr. Nyx decides to become this after finding Lily.
24	* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Averted. The film plays it for all the tension and creepiness it's worth, and [[spoiler: when Lily finally catches Jonah and rapes him, the scene is downright eerie.]] Furthermore, [[spoiler: when Lily comes back for him in the end, it's depicted as a ''massive'' DownerEnding.]]
25	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Mac and Elliot are dead, the only people that could have contained Lily are all dead, but hey, Lily promises to [[PetTheDog leave Jonah alone]], and Jonah and Eva eventually [[HopeSpot get married]]... oh, and then [[{{Yandere}} Lily]] comes to [[FateWorseThanDeath take him for her own anyway]].]]
26	* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Once Jonah manages to get out of the club, he tries to explain to his friends what Lily is. Him being in a panic and Elliot being LaughingMad results in the others not understanding what he tries to tell them until it is too late.
27	--> '''Jonah:''' That was no woman!
28	--> '''Rand:''' What, was she a transexual?
29	--> [[spoiler: ''cue Lily pulling Elliot out of the driving car'']]
30	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The moment they crash, Elliot is immediately dragged out of the car by Lily.
31	* EpicFail: Mac decides to take Jonah to Garden City instead of anywhere popular, reasoning that it would be a [[GoneHorriblyRight unique experience]]... all they end up being able to find is a FamilyFriendlyStripClub.
32	* FanDisservice: Lily is a beautiful woman, but not when she is in her demonic form. And it is precisely in the demonic form that Lily gets when she rapes Jonah.
33	* FakeMemories: The drink Elliot orders gives the drinker this... unfortunately for Elliot, his drink gives him [[CrazyMemory Crazy Memories]].
34	* FauxAffablyEvil: Mr. Nyx is a darkly charismatic man who carries himself with an aura of sophistication and class, but is a sadistic sexual deviant who had Lily raped and tortured and will torture and kill to get her back.
35	%% * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Mac and Jonah, respectively.
36	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Mac, who Jonah only selected as his Best Man because he'd throw a shit-fit if his brother didn't pick him, while Rand is understanding about the conflict.
37	%% * TheFreakshow: What the club ends up being.
38	* FrightBesideThem: Jonah, after reflecting on his harrowing adventure, celebrates the first anniversary of his wedding to Eva with a round of passionate sex before falling asleep. After waking up in the middle of the night, he heads downstairs to the fridge, and [[spoiler:discovers, to his horror, that Eva had passed out fully clothed in the living room earlier that evening, and had never come up to bed at all]].
39	* FromBadToWorse: Lily is free, Jonah and his friends are being hunted throughout the club... [[spoiler: and then Lily manages to take of the bracelet that's binding her [[HumanoidAbomination powers]].]]
40	* GoodHairEvilHair: Mr. Nyx's assistant has leeches for hair.
41	* ILied: [[spoiler:Jonah makes his deal with Lily that he won't put back on the [[RestrainingBolt tunic binding to her leg]] if she lets him go. She seems to agree... but eventually steals him away anyway later in life.]]
42	* JerkassHasAPoint: Was Mr. Nyx binding Lily and using her as a prostitute a terrible thing to do? Yes. Did it keep her from finding a "[[SexSlave mate]]" and killing anyone who got in her way? [[BrutalHonesty Also yes]].
43	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Mr. Nyx is killed by Lily when Jonah brings her back to him.]]
44	* LaughingMad: Elliot, after his FakeMemories drive him [[DrivenToMadness insane]].
45	* LostInTheMaize: After crashing their car, Jonah and Mac try to hide from Lily in an overgrown field, although Jonah being CoveredInMud is what actually fools her.
46	* LoveTriangle: A rather disturbing one. Jonah is going to marry Eva and they both clearly love each other. However, Lily falls in love with Jonah, despite his feelings for her being, at their best, pity and, at their worst, disgust and dread (since she is a succubus with a face horrible to look at).
47	* MeaningfulName: Lily's apparent true name, [[spoiler:{{Lilith}}, an infamous biblical seductress]]. Jonah's new wife is named Eve. Jonah is an interesting case since he's named for a guy who was swallowed by a sea-creature... yet he was freed. [[note]]Perhaps a sequel where he escapes is in the works... why else would he be named ''Jonah''?[[/note]]
48	* MissingTime: A [[RuleOfFunny comedic]] example. Mac, Rand and Elliot are asked to pay for their night out with a [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory of their mother]], they close their eyes, the music swells... and Mr. Nyx cheerfully tells them [[ParanoiaFuel it's been done]]. Later on, we find out they were really out for a couple of minutes, while [[spoiler: leeches [[TransferableMemory transferred said memories]].]]
49	* MookHorrorShow: Mr. Nyx arrives at the church with two police officers. Only one of them leaves the church alive. [[PoliceAreUseless Guess who]].
50	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Jonah and Mr. Nyx [[spoiler: almost have Lily contained with a [[PowerNullifier magic seal]] in the church, Jonah just needs to put her PowerLimiter back on... and then he decides to let her PayEvilUntoEvil.]]
51	* NightmareFace: Lily's "split face" in this film looks even creepier than it did in ''[[Film/{{VHS}} Amateur Night]]''.
52	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Everything that happens is the result of [[spoiler: Jonah trying to free [[SexSlave Lily]] from the club.]]
53	* OutsideRide: Lily climbs onto Jonah's car before they can escape, they end up crashing it soon after.
54	* PowerLimiter: Mr. Nyx gets close enough to shackle Lily with one at the start. Unfortunately for everyone, it eventually comes off.
55	* PunchClockVillain: The bartender [[spoiler: who has leeches for hair]] is perfectly fine with holding Jonah at gunpoint, but really just wants to get home because she should have been off the clock already.
56	* RestrainingBolt: The shackle on Lily's ankle [[spoiler:is made with runes inside that limit her powers]].
57	* ScaryTeeth: Lily. Bordering on MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
58	%% * SiblingsInCrime: The two bouncers.
59	* SinisterMinister: Mr. Nyx is an exorcist of some description at the start of the film, once he finds Lily, however, he becomes a CollectorOfTheStrange.
60	%% * SexSlave: Lily, in a sense. [[spoiler: Jonah becomes this in the end.]]
61	* SuccubiAndIncubi: [[spoiler:Lily, or rather [[MeaningfulName Lilith]], is directly identified as a succubus from Hell who was summoned years earlier.]]
62	* SuccubusInLove: The eponymous "Siren" is actually Lilith, a Succubus summoned from Hell to be a SexSlave and prostitute for a greedy businessman. When she meets the protagonist, Jonah, who is in the middle of his bachelor party, she takes an immediate liking to him and chooses him to be her mate. [[FanDisservice Despite how it sounds, this is NOT a good thing.]] For one, her [[NightmareFace demonic form is ghastly and hideous]] and for two, succubi mate for life, meaning that she will always claim him for as long as he lives [[FateWorseThanDeath and possibly even after that]]. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, he tries to strike a bargain with her: he frees her from her enslavement on the condition that she leave him and his friends alone. She agrees...for a time. Some time later, after having a night of passionate sex with his wife, Jonah find his wife [[BedTrick actually asleep on the couch]] and has to beg Lilith not to kill her. [[DownerEnding So he agrees to go with her wherever she wants and be hers on the condition that she doesn't harm his wife.]]]]
63	* TransferableMemory: Mr. Nyx's assistant transfers Rand's memories of [[ColdBloodedTorture being tortured]] to Jonah via [[spoiler: the leeches in her head.]]
64	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Had it not been for Mac, Jonah would never have met Lily.
65	%% * {{Yandere}}: Lily.

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