{"id":10045,"date":"2011-03-20T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T22:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=10045"},"modified":"2011-03-20T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T22:57:09","slug":"weekend-fright-flick-oceaniden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/20\/weekend-fright-flick-oceaniden\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Fright Flick: Oceaniden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oceaniden<\/strong> (Denmark-2010; short [8:12 min] dir. Gorm Just)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/oceaniden-poster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10031\" title=\"oceaniden-poster\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/oceaniden-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/oceaniden-poster.jpg 509w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/oceaniden-poster-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weekend&#8217;s Fright Flick harks from Denmark and features a particular cryptozoological favourite &#8212; a hybridisation of Man and Fish. In the past, mummified merfolk have been a standard attraction at traveling &#8220;freakshows&#8221;, though of course the weird displays oft prove to be taxidermological frauds, such as this rather spectacular one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mermaid_mummified.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10046\" title=\"mermaid_mummified\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mermaid_mummified.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mermaid_mummified.jpg 756w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mermaid_mummified-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The main contemporary image we have of mermaids derives from the famous story by Hans Christian Anderson and has appeared in cinema in romantic comedies such as Ron Howard&#8217;s 1984 <em>Splash!<\/em>, and most famously in Disney&#8217;s 1989 animated film <em>The Little Mermaid<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/little-mermaid-movie-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10047 aligncenter\" title=\"little-mermaid-movie-01\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/little-mermaid-movie-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/little-mermaid-movie-01.jpg 445w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/little-mermaid-movie-01-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a>But the connection between mermaids and the Sirens of Greek mythology reminds us there is a dark side to the aquatic mythology of the &#8220;women of the sea&#8221;, which films such as Hideshi Hino&#8217;s 1988 tale of delusion and decay, <em>Mermaid in a Manhole<\/em> [aka Gin\u00ee piggu: Manh\u00f4ru no naka no ningyo] and the under-appreciated <em>She Creature<\/em> (US-2001; dir. Sebastian Gutierrez) exploit to good (i.e. nasty) effect.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend&#8217;s short film presents a cautionary tale that lies somewhere between the beauty and terror of mermaid folklore &#8212; veering more to one side than the other.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/cinema-of-the-backbrain\/weekend-fright-flick-oceaniden\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oceaniden (Denmark-2010; short [8:12 min] dir. Gorm Just) This weekend&#8217;s Fright Flick harks from Denmark and features a particular cryptozoological favourite &#8212; a hybridisation of Man and Fish. In the past, mummified merfolk have been a standard attraction at traveling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/20\/weekend-fright-flick-oceaniden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[109,126,4,26,95],"tags":[605,1421,243,606,543],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10049,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions\/10049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}