Action · Horror
The Dam
You want justice? Overcome the monsters of the past first.
The film takes place during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. After the Kakhovka dam is blown up, a detachment of Ukrainian soldiers led by a female fighter with the call sign Mara finds themselves in a secret Soviet bunker at the bottom of a reservoir where the USSR conducted human experiments during the Cold War. The consequences of these experiments are still in the bunker in the form of the half-living corpses of Soviet soldiers. Now, in order to survive, Ukrainians need to defeat the Soviet zombies, their own fear, as well as overcome internal disputes and trust each other.
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Top Cast
Maryna Koshkina
Mara
Dmytro Pavko
Viter
Volodymyr Rashchuk
Dzhmil
Oleksandr Yatsentiuk
Monakh
Mykhailo Dziuba
Vakula
Andrii Podliesnyi
Sheva
Orest Pasichnyk
Bum
Iryna Kudashova
Fialka
Directed by
Oleksii Taranenko
Production
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6/1012/7/2025
"The Dam" could be said to be as much a poltical statement, as it is a zombie action, horror flick. Given this film has been made, at a time when Ukraine is at war with Russia, its tones, perhaps unsurprisingly, are political in a way that favours Ukraine's role in the conflict, whilst condemning Russia's. Obviously, this is wholly simplistic, but it is what it is. So looking beyond the propagandistic aspects of this production,how does it stand up as a film? Actually, its not bad. The story of a Soviet underground lab where people were experimented upon and have become zombie like weapons, is pretty cool. The creature effects and setting is suitably creepy and atmospheric. What could have done with a little more work, are the action scenes. Somehow, they feel a little lacking, in
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