Rather, this is the disgusting part: The painter gets her home, and puts her in a bathtub. The pustules rapidly spread to cover her entire body, and she convinces him to lance them for her. This causes her to act like she's climaxing (in a gore-gasm. Get it?) And then he collects the weird pus that drains out of her in a bucket, so he can use it to paint more pictures of her. Because it's Art. Don't you see?

Oh, and you shouldn't watch this clip if you're easily grossed out or offended. Really.

Later, the pustules start having worms and creatures coming out of them. It's like a metaphor. Mermaid In A Manhole is part of the Guinea Pig series of Japanese horror.

The film seems to still be in deep development stages but Nathan Philips is now being rumored to have joined up with the rest of the cast. Here's the official synopsis:

"NICK BIGMAN has a problem. He comes from a long line of surfers; his father was an amateur surfer, his grandfather ROD BIGMAN a surf champion who appeared in 1960's beach movies like Beach Bongo. Unfortunately, Nick suffers from Hydrophobia, an anxiety disorder that plagues many Americans who suffer from this extreme fear of the water. Nick can't go near any body of water without breaking into a sweat. If he's tossed in the ocean or a pool by a bunch of pranksters, he immediately goes into a panic attack. Those who suffer from Hydrophobia have been known to drown in a shallow body of water they could have easily stood up and walked away from, the anxiety's that intense.

'Hydrophobia' revolves around the ghost of 60's beach movie starlet KAREN SLATER. When Karen's controlling Hollywood agent DON BULASKY finds out about her love affair with her BEACH BONGO co-star, ROD BIGMAN (Nick's grandfather), her agent drowns her in a jealous rage. Overcome with grief DON seeks out the help of a local Jamaican witch doctor to bring his favorite beach movie starlet back to life.

There's only one problem. While what comes back resembles the beautiful Karen Slater, in voodoo mythology if a person dies a violent death, his or her soul returns as evil incarnate. In Karen's case, she's become a flesh-eating astral zombie residing in the pool of her old abandoned Malibu Beach house. Every spring Karen needs to feed on twelve poor souls so she can exist on this earthly plane for another year. And because she's an astral zombie, Karen can materialize anywhere in the house or pool area where there's water!

With the help of her keeper, Hollywood agent Bulasky, Karen lures a pair of college kids, who of course decide to throw a huge spring break pool party at her Malibu beach house! Being spring, it's feeding time again! To complicate matters, the protagonist, Nick, has a fear of the water so if he notices strange occurrences or claims to see weird stuff going on during the mayhem of the pool party, no one's going to believe him.

As the partygoers are knocked off one by one, Nick and his fun-loving dorm buddy DARYL don't realize what's going on – they're too preoccupied with getting laid! But when the girls (ALEX & CINDY) that Nick & Daryl have their eyes on fall prey to Karen as they wade in the pool, Nick is forced to confront both his Hydrophobia and this flesh-eating creature who was once Karen Slater, the sexy 60's beach movie starlet Nick's idolized for years. As Nick's friends are about to find out in 'Hydrophobia', it's time to be afraid of the water ... again!"

Sounds kooky enough. My only question: Bai Ling is going to play a 1960's actress named Karen Slater?

The posting goes on to describe the monstrous mermaid herself as a Species-like movie monster, "a sexy femme fatale who lures both men and women into the pool, appearing as a sexy vixen at first who then morphs into an Alien-like creature with razor-sharp piranha teeth capable of opening her mouth as wide as a python to bite a man's head off!"

We're not going to let this ridiculous gem of a film slip by without a trailer of Bai Ling feasting on the beach-blanket-bingo remains of a pack of beach boys and girls. We'll keep you updated.

[via Bloody Disgusting]

According to Nippon Cinema:

Kouta (Shinya Hashimoto), the leader of a pro-wrestling organization called "Zero", is planning an over-the-top housewarming at his new mansion. The not-so-lucky attendees include his sister Nami (Sonim), TV producer Yamaji (Shiro Sano), and jealous party-crashing rival Ichijoh (Nicolas Pettas). Of course Ichijoh's appearance ignites an epic battle which all but destroys the entire place. Kouta's wife, Asami (Urara Awata) . . . contracts a mysterious disease. Meanwhile, the ratings-obsessed Yamaji concocts a plan to broadcast the most epic wrestling battle ever conceived.

I think we can guess the "mysterious disease" might somehow be related to zombie mermaidism. I like the combination of wrestling with zombies - sort of reminds me of Dead Set, the British miniseries about how the last bastion of humanity in a zombie-ravaged UK are the people on the sealed-off set of TV series Big Brother. I also suspect that the title Oh! My Zombie Mermaid might be a reference to Oh! My Goddess!, the silly/sexy anime series that often gets so annoying you wish that everybody would turn into brain-eating monsters so they would stop giggling so damn much.

Said McMahon:

This is an idea I hashed out in conversation with my marketing person. We really went through a whole brainstorm: What are some creative interesting ways we can approach doing this video [for “The Resolution”] as an experiment of some sort?

The record company, meanwhile, likely sensed an awesome side-effect of said experiment: thousands of potential pubescent lady-fans. Adds McMahon: “Stephanie’s interpretation was a relationship metaphor kind of thing.” Eureka!

The gist of her creation, shot in Ventura, California: McMahon plays the piano on the back of a vintage pick-up truck; then he’s walking out of a beach house with the tide rising and rising until he gives up and goes for a swim…and meets up with a mermaid. Explained McMahon:

Our goal with the video is ‘Let’s not go literal.’ I’d rather just make a music video than try to make some crazy statement, you know. We’re still in the editing process.

The song touches on McMahon’s much-publicized battle with leukemia, or as he puts it, “Running from dealing with something and reconciling [with it].” (He’s since beaten the affliction.) Meyer fans may be a bit disappointed, though:

There are no vampires in it! It’s cinematic and has dark qualities to it. The most whimsical element in it is our mermaid. That was handled in a Tim Burton-esque kind of way.

So how does an inexperienced director shoot a video? McMahon said:

Stephanie had been in the process of editing her movie when we hooked up. [On set] she had ideas of where to place things and how the visual should play out. Signing off on shots. This was kind of an effort with her and a director of photography named Noble Jones [3 Doors Down, Sevendust, Sloan].… I took a lot of my direction from Noble in the sense that it was a more of positioning and placement.

And in case you were wondering: He’s currently on page 200 of Twilight right now. But does he like it? “I tend to appreciate things that can be digested by the masses.”

Mannequin’s second album, The Glass Passenger, drops Sept. 30.