DAMSEL (2024) – Not All Princesses Need Saving. Some Come With a Blade.

They threw her to the dragon. She became the fire

Damsel (2024) flips the fairy tale upside down and sets it on fire. Starring Millie Bobby Brown in a fierce, breakout role, this dark fantasy thriller subverts centuries of damsel-in-distress tropes, giving us a heroine who doesn't wait for rescue—she becomes her own salvation. It’s part survival story, part medieval horror, and fully a tale of female power forged in flame.

Elodie (Brown), a dutiful and brave young woman from a poor but proud noble house, agrees to marry a handsome prince from a wealthy kingdom in hopes of securing a future for her people. But after her wedding, she discovers the royal family has no intention of making her a queen. Instead, she’s been offered as a ritual sacrifice to a fire-breathing dragon that demands a royal bride to slay every generation. It’s tradition. Cruel, bloody tradition.

But Elodie is no easy offering.

Trapped in the dragon’s mountain lair, she battles not just the beast, but hunger, fear, the echoes of betrayal—and the fire rising within her. Armed with only her wits, survival instincts, and whatever sharp rock or bone she can find, Elodie transforms from victim to warrior. What begins as an escape turns into a reckoning, and what the kingdom thought was the end of a girl becomes the birth of a legend.

Directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and soaked in brutal beauty, Damsel is a visually stunning and thematically powerful tale about how fairy tales lie—and how women rewrite them. With dragons, dungeons, and defiance, this isn't your childhood storybook. It’s what happens when the princess stops running and starts fighting.