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The Dam

Name: The Dam
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Released: 2025-10-01
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 5.9

★ 5,9 /10 (15 Votes)

2025 UK 99 min

Overview

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.

Release date

01/10/2025

Votes

Popularity

2.1

You want justice? Overcome the monsters of the past first.

Genres

Action Horror Thriller

Status

Released

Original title

Каховський обʼєкт

Language

Runtime

99 min

Maryna Koshkina

Mara

Dmytro Pavko

Viter

Volodymyr Rashchuk

Dzhmil

Oleksandr Yatsentiuk

Monakh

Mykhailo Dziuba

Vakula

Andrii Podliesnyi

Sheva

Orest Pasichnyk

Bum

Iryna Kudashova

Fialka

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Vlada Marchevska

Aistra

Andrii Zhyla

Volodymyr Karlov

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"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 wea…

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