The Damned, directed by Thordur Palsson, is a chilling dive into folk horror, blending psychological unease with supernatural ...

The Damned takes place in the 19th century and focuses on a small group of fishermen who are having a challenging season. The ...

Remember that spooky campfire tale that opens John Carpenter’s The Fog? It’s an old-fashioned yarn about a wrecked ship ...

Throughout The Damned, writer-director Thordur Palsson’s formidable feature debut, the phrase that kept echoing through my head was the chilling proclamation that the “world is dark and full ...

A bleak if repetitive thriller centers on a 19th-century Icelandic fishing outpost and a moral quandary. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through ...

When I was growing up in the North of England, I was told that sailors wouldn’t learn to swim. Why postpone the inevitable, they would say? You fall in waters cold enough to turn to ice, better ...