Despite the 19th-century setting, there are distinct echoes of The Thing in this chilly horror. Working from an elegantly ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The slow-burn approach to horror has proven to be an effective means of winding the tension and terror until what’s often an ...

A chilling folk-horror thriller which reconfirms that January is often a fertile time for under-the-radar genre fare, The Damned, which hits theaters Jan. 3, tells a sinister campfire tale of guilt, ...

Odessa Young and Joe Cole face an ancient evil in this debut set in 1870s Iceland ...