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The Damned

2025 · 89 min

A slow, freezing descent into paranoia and folklore, where isolation and hunger blur the line between curse and conscience.

Directed by
Thordur Palsson
Genres
Horror, Drama, Mystery
Overview
A 19th-century widow has to make an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a foreign ship sinks off the coast of her Icelandic fishing village.

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Directed by
Thordur Palsson
Genres
Horror, Drama, Mystery
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • isolation
  • guilt
  • morality
  • death
Places
  • wilderness
  • sea
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror7
Humour1
Realism7
Romance1
Tension8
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Genres
horror, drama, mystery
Directed by
Thordur Palsson
Written by
Jamie Hannigan
Starring
Odessa Young, Joe Cole, Siobhan Finneran, Rory McCann, Turlough Convery, Lewis Gribben, Francis Magee, Mícheál Óg Lane
Music
Stephen McKeon
Cinematography
Eli Arenson
Runtime
89 min
Country
Ireland, United Kingdom, Iceland, Belgium
Languages
English, Basque

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