Set in the late 1800s against the unforgiving backdrop of Iceland’s Westfjords, the film follows a crew of fishermen who ...
Despite the 19th-century setting, there are distinct echoes of The Thing in this chilly horror. Working from an elegantly minimal script by Jamie Hannigan (who also wrote Pilgrimage), the Icelandic ...
January is traditionally the dumping ground for new movies, which are frequently leftovers from the year before designed to ...
This is especially felt in the hands of cinematographer Eli Arenson, who previously did good work on the much less successful ...
The slow-burn approach to horror has proven to be an effective means of winding the tension and terror until what’s often an ...
Inspired by the dramatic landscape of the Westfjords of Iceland in the 1800s and the region’s folklore, the psychological ...
A bleak if repetitive thriller centers on a 19th-century Icelandic fishing outpost and a moral quandary.
A profound element of The Damned ’s harsh realism is that Eva is never clad in “final girl” rags, but in the same working ...
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, ...
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 ...
Odessa Young and Joe Cole face an ancient evil in this debut set in 1870s Iceland ...