The Damned Ones

The Damned Ones

Some Places Are Not Meant To Be Found

When her partially blind friend Siti goes missing, Laura, who's hard of hearing, rushes to the police with a bizarre tale. Played by actors with disabilities.

Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Horror, Drama
Director
Reena Deen

Casting

Interesting facts

The Damned Ones is a 2025 Singaporean supernatural mystery feature film, written, directed and produced by Reena Deen. The film stars Jade Ow and Amanda Yip, and is Singapore's first low-budget independent horror film with a disabled cast, and explores disability and disability representation.

Production

The Damned Ones was written, directed and produced by Reena Deen, a former teacher turned filmmaker who lives with dyslexia and Complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Deen wanted to tell a story featuring a cast of disabled characters that did not revolve around disability. All the disabled characters in the film were played by disabled actors, and the crew was composed of disabled people and people from other marginalised communities.

Jade Ow, an actress with moderate to severe hearing impairment, was the first person to come aboard on the project playing the lead character of Laura, a university student who becomes a suspect in her friend's disappearance. Ow then recommended her friend and fellow actress Amanda Yip, who has retinitis pigmentosa (progressive vision loss that affects the retina), who was then cast in the role of Siti, the missing woman. Michael J.

The film started shooting in Singapore in 2023. Filming was disrupted on several occasions due to extreme heat and humidity, and also due to rain storms.

Some of the dialogue was improvised, to help support the cast's access needs.

Shooting was completed in 2024, and in August 2024, post-production began with Parachute Pictures. The film was released in 2025.

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