"From its first draw of blood onward,
The Damned bolts down a foreseeable slasher-movie trajectory, laying on thick the dramatic irony while constantly inventing new reasons to punish its characters for old iniquities. Along the way, it emits fraudulent ripples of
The Exorcist,
Alien,
The Ring,
Evil Dead—hell, the film's even derivative of already derivative recent entries in the horror canon like
Silent House."
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