Paranoia and superstition collide in Thordur Palsson’s directorial feature debut, The Damned. Set in 19th Century Iceland, The Damned chronicles the bleak plight of a small fishing village in the wake ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Group has signed Icelandic film director Thordur Palsson whose feature debut, the horror film The Damned, premiered at this year’s Tribeca Festival and will be released ...

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, ...

EXCLUSIVE: In advance of its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, scheduled for June 6th, the supernatural horror film The Damned, marking the feature directorial debut of Thordur Palsson (The ...

Inspired by the dramatic landscape of the Westfjords of Iceland in the 1800s and the region’s folklore, the psychological horror film “The Damned” so excels in creating a memorable atmosphere that the ...

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 of ...

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 in the ...

In his feature film debut, The Damned, Icelandic director Thordur Palsson goes back in time to weave a tale of paranoia, desperation, and guilt as a village collectively tries to decide if they should ...

Directed Thordur Palsson and written by Jamie Hannigan, who adapted the screenplay from a story by Palsson, The Damned toes the line between horror and psychological thriller. The film stars ...

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 to ...