Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for The Damned (2025) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Odessa Young, Joe Cole, Siobhan Finneran, Rory McCann, Turlough Convery, Lewis Gribben DIRECTOR: Thordur Palsson CINEMATOGRAPHY: Eli Arenson MUSIC: Stephen McKeon PRODUCTION: Ley Line Entertainment, Wild Atlantic Pictures, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Join Motion Pictures, Wrong Men, Protagonist Pictures

Box Office Performance

The Damned earned $1,342,796 domestically and $9,757 internationally, for a worldwide total of $1,352,553. The film skewed heavily domestic (99%), suggesting strong North American appeal.

Detailed Box Office Notes

In the United States, the film made $769,721 from 732 theaters in its opening weekend.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Production

Thordur Palsson wrote the story and directs, while Jamie Hannigan wrote the screenplay. Emilie Jouffroy and Kamilla Hodol produced for Elation Pictures alongside John Keville and Conor Barry of Wild Atlantic Pictures and Netop Films. ish. Producers also include Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page and Nate Kamiya producing for Ley Line Entertainment.

Odessa Young was cast as Eva in 2021. By April 2023 the cast also included Joe Cole, Lewis Gribben, Siobhan Finneran, Francis Magee, Rory McCann, Turlough Convery, Mícheál Óg Lane and Andrean Sigurgeirsson.

Filming took place in Iceland in 2023 and the project entered post-production in spring 2023.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Summary: 1 win & 3 nominations total

CRITICAL RECEPTION

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 64 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favourable" reviews.

Tara Brady of The Irish Times gave the film 3.5/5 stars, writing, "The Damned is powered along by suspicion, atmospherics and an unforgettable landscape. Young is a capable final girl, her fierceness tempered only by the hint of repressed romance with boatswain Daniel. Eli Arenson's camera picks out imposing shapes in the day and ominous shadows at night. Stephen McKeon's piercing strings are appropriately disconcerting." Siddhant Adlakha of Variety wrote, "That The Damned runs out of steam feels like an inevitable outcome. However, that it remains alluring for as long as it does — thanks in large part to Young's magnetic performance, as a young woman burdened by responsibility — is a testament to its strengths as a psychological, atmospheric piece about deep remorse." IndieWire Christian Zilko gave it a B grade, calling it "a slow-burning work of psychological horror that's more interested in exploring humanity's capacity for guilt than jump scares or gore."