The Damned (2025)

Set in a remote and desolate 19th century fishing village in Iceland during a very severe winter. A widow (Odessa Young) who is the head of the village must make an agonizing decision when a shipwreck happens near their shores. They barely have enough supplies for them to make it through the winter. If they rescue the sailors, there won't be enough supplies for all of them to survive. She makes her decision but it unleashes a horror that threatens to destroy them all. Directed by Thordur Palsson, an Icelandic director in his feature film debut. An effective and disturbing of piece of psychological horror that achieves its horror not from jumps and boos but mood and atmosphere. The bleak and barren atmosphere (stunningly shot by Eli Arenson) contributes to the uneasiness of the mise en scene. One of the characters remarks that the living are much more dangerous than the dead and indeed, the psychological deterioration of the villagers does more to destroy themselves than the "dead". With Joe Cole, Rory McCann and Siobhan Finneran.