With 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, One of the Greatest and Least-Seen Folk Horrors of Last Year Just Landed on Hulu
The Damned is a bleak, wintry horror with real human fears at its core, making for a deeply unsettling watch.
2024 brought plenty of releases for horror fans to sink their teeth into, with folk horror continuing to be a prominent subgenre throughout the year. One film, however, was quietly released and has managed to stay relatively under the radar – The Damned. With a Rotten Tomatoes score of 91%, the film has proven itself well worth more attention from mainstream audiences, which is increasingly possible now that it is available to stream on Hulu. Set in a remote 19th-century fishing outpost on the edge of the Arctic Circle, The Damned is a brutal meditation on survival, grief, and the price we have to pay when the consequences of impossible decisions come back to haunt us. Combining the primal dread of folk horror with widespread slow-burn psychological collapse throughout the film’s characters, it’s the kind of film that chills you to the bone, and one any good horror fan needs to see.
