Vera Farmiga, best known to horror audiences as Lorraine Warren across the Conjuring franchise, is set to headline Inferno, a new supernatural occult thriller, Variety reports from the American Film Market.
Farmiga will play a disgraced former detective pulled back into the Black Branch, a fictional unit within Scotland Yard devoted to investigating occult crimes, while she tracks down a killer. Bryan Hill is writing and directing; the project is being produced by Ara Keshishian alongside Petr Jákl’s ZQ Entertainment and Adrian Askarieh’s Prime Universe Films, with Farmiga also attached as an executive producer.
Manifest Pictures’ Zach Glueck, who is presenting Inferno to buyers at AFM this week, has pitched the project with comparisons to Manhunter, The Exorcist, and Longlegs. Production is expected to begin next spring; no other cast members have been confirmed, and no release date has been set.
Horror fans hoping for another slow burn, atmosphere-first supernatural procedural in the Longlegs mold will want to keep an eye on this one as it works its way from the AFM market toward a start date.
