Despite an ending that falls a bit flat, Thordur Palsson’s The Damned is a promising directing debut rich in mythos.

Thordur Palsson's upcoming psychological horror film The Damned will star Joe Cole and Odessa Young with a screenplay by ...

Set in the late 1800s against the unforgiving backdrop of Iceland’s Westfjords, the film follows a crew of fishermen who ...

A bleak if repetitive thriller centers on a 19th-century Icelandic fishing outpost and a moral quandary.

With a thorny ethical dilemma at its core and clever use of its natural surroundings, Thordur Palsson’s “The Damned” is a film concerned with moral and physical claustrophobia. Taking place ...

Inspired by the dramatic landscape of the Westfjords of Iceland in the 1800s and the region’s folklore, the psychological ...

A profound element of The Damned ’s harsh realism is that Eva is never clad in “final girl” rags, but in the same working ...

In our clip from the film, Eva learns about the legend of Draugur, an entity that may just be lurking around the village. Not only does this clip give you a taste of the tension palpable throughout ...

If I were to tell you even a little bit about what you call ‘my secrets,’” Bernard says, “I might be condemning you to death.

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Directed by Thordur Palsson. Starring Odessa Young, Joe Cole, Siobhan Finneran, Rory McCann, Turlough Convery, Lewis Gribben, Francis Magee, and Mícheál Óg Lane. SYNOPSIS: A 19th-century widow has to ...

The psychological horror film so excels in creating a memorable atmosphere that the room where you view it may feel much ...