“We should not be here,” Eva (Odessa Young) says at the start of “The Damned,” and you can see why. This is a landscape so large and prehistoric that humans seem like intruders. Sooner or ...

Thordur Palsson's upcoming psychological horror film The Damned will star Joe Cole and Odessa Young with a screenplay by Jamie Hannigan. The movie was first screened at the Tribeca Film Festival ...

Odessa Young gives an excellent performance in Thordur Palsson’s folklore-influenced exploration of the ways that our choices follow us forever. If that strikes you as a remotely pleasant way to ...

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 ...

Icy and atmospheric, Thordur Palsson and Jamie Hannigan’s The Damned tells of a group of 19th century fishermen who begin to suspect they may be cursed. They have their reasons: the winter has ...