{"id":10520,"date":"2025-01-05T14:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T19:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=10520"},"modified":"2025-01-05T14:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T19:50:29","slug":"move-review-the-damned-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=10520","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE REVIEW: The Damned (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/THE-DAMNEX-692x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10521\" style=\"width:532px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/THE-DAMNEX-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/THE-DAMNEX-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/THE-DAMNEX-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/THE-DAMNEX.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>review by Paul J. Baio for MK ULTRA Magazine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Damned is a 2025 British psychological folk horror film and the first theatrical release of the year, exploring the dark consequences of a 19th century remote fishing outpost crew&#8217;s decision to abandon a sinking ship&#8217;s crew, which ultimately leads to a devastating downward spiral of superstition and paranoia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>While the conclusion was a tad underwhelming, the lead-up was engaging. The film effectively crafts a suspenseful dark and creepy ambiance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>review by Paul J. Baio for MK ULTRA Magazine The Damned is a 2025 British psychological folk horror film and the first theatrical release of the year, exploring the dark consequences of a 19th century remote fishing outpost crew&#8217;s decision to abandon a sinking ship&#8217;s crew, which ultimately leads to a devastating downward spiral of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=10520\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MOVIE REVIEW: The Damned (2025)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-reviewz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10523,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520\/revisions\/10523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}