The Damned opens with a shot of a lone woman in the icy night staggering across a stark snowy landscape as a voiceover intones that the place, ‘is a land of opportunity… if you could stand the cold, the hunger and the long nights’. But this is not Bradford but it is instead Iceland and the woman is Eva (Odessa Young) widowed with only her late husband’s boat to remember him by in the tiny fishing village she lives with a handful of other fisherman and they are all hungry with what little food they have rationed.
But it is when they see a boat capsize in the icy waters they see the dilemma of rescuing them but not having enough food to feed both themselves and those that they might rescue. That the sinking boats cargo of food and drink is washed ashore sees them row out to a rock to search for any survivors. But it’s not long before we’re into supernatural territory as their reluctance to have rescue the crew in the first place comes back to literally haunt them. And thrown into this is Eva’s eye candy Daniel (Joe Cole) that sparks a frisson of fondness for each other.
It is bleakly photographed with an unsettling score which combined with the sight of figures in the dark corners and recesses of the huts gradually sends the villagers over the edge. It works well the first time but the creepy character in the corner is repeated time and again to ever diminishing and ultimately monotonous effect. Running at only 90 minutes The Damned just about has enough to get you to the climatic reveal.
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