If you loved X: The Movie, try Mermaid's Scar
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Mermaid's Scar has roughly 4.1× fewer votes than X: The Movie — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theysit in Animation / Fantasy / Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to X: The Movie, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Mermaid's Scar is
A fishing hamlet, winter tide dragging kelp ashore like black hair. Amidst it, Yuta moves with the quiet horror of a man who has watched centuries erode. One bite of mermaid flesh steals bodies and years, leaving the eater between life and a thing that weeps salt. A lost lyric from another era glints under the credits.
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