Joe Cole Joins Odessa Young For Horror The Damned

Icelandic filmmaker Thordur Palsson‘s (The Valhalla Murders) new psychological horror The Damned wrapped up Principal photography in his homeland.

The film stars Odessa Young and she will be joined by Joe Cole (Gangs Of London). Newly announced cast  also includes Siobhan Finneran (Happy Valley, The Stranger), Rory McCann (Game of Thrones, Slow West), Turlough Convery (Killing Eve, Belfast), Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy, Deadwater Fell), Francis Magee (KIN, The Tourist), Mícheál Óg Lane (The Guard, Calvary) and Andrean Sigurgeirsson (A Song Called Hate, When We Are Born).

The Damned follows Eva, a 19th-century widow who is tasked with making an impossible choice when, in the middle of an especially cruel winter, a ship sinks off the coast of her isolated fishing post. Eva and her crew must choose to either rescue the shipwrecked or survive the winter with their last remaining food. Facing the consequences of their choice and tormented by their guilt, the inhabitants wrestle with a mounting sense of dread and begin to believe they are all being punished for their choices…

Protagonist Pictures, who arranged financing for the film, is handling worldwide sales.  Protagonist will be sharing exclusive footage with buyers on the Croisette at Cannes Film Festival.

The Damned  is produced by Emilie Jouffroy and Kamilla Kristiane Hodøl for Elation Pictures, John Keville and Conor Barry for Wild Atlantic Pictures and Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page and Nate Kamiya producing for Ley Line Entertainment. The Co-producers are Iceland’s Join Motion Pictures, Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson and Anton Máni Svansson and Belgian’s Wrong Men, Benoit Roland.

The producers commented on the director “We could not be prouder of what Thordur and this magnificent ensemble of talent have achieved on THE DAMNED. The Icelandic landscape is a part of the haunted soul of this film and shooting in the depths of winter in the West Fjords provided physical and creative challenges, and each of those challenges could not have been overcome without the support of our fantastic partners. We are so excited to get this film into the world.”

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