XYZ Films, the U.S.-based sales agency specializing in genre films, has picked up international rights to Bradley Liew’s horror movie Motel Acacia, writes Variety out of the AFM.

Malaysian-born, Philippines-based Liew saw his debut feature Singing in Graveyards premier at the Venice Film Festival’s Critics Week in 2016. It went on to 30 festivals and won awards in Malaysia and Kolkata.

Set in a fictional snowy U.S., the film is about a young Filipino man who is groomed by his tyrannical Caucasian father to take over a voyeuristic sex motel with a bed that eats men and impregnates women.

The screenplay was co-written by Liew and producer Bianca Balbuena, who was last year awarded Asia Pacific Screen Awards FIAPF Achievement in Film, and Asian Film Commissions AFCnet’s Producer of the Year.

The film is set to start principal photography at the end of November in Philippines and Slovenia. It is targeting a 2019 release.

Hotel Acacia has a cast that includes Indonesian high-profile actor Nicholas Saputra (“What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love”), Belgian actor Jan Bijvoet (“Embrace of the Serpent, TV’s “Peaky Blinders”), JC Santos, Angel Aquino from the Philippines, Malaysia’s Bront Palarae (TV’s “Satan’s Slaves”), Thailand’s Vithaya Pansringarm (Only God Forgives), Talia Zucker, and U.S./Australian Will Jaymes (“Beast”).

“This film is a projection of monsters – monsters from the Southeast Asian folklore and the monsters within us – humans,” said Liew, in a director’s statement. “This is a story of a young man’s emancipation both sexually and spiritually. The film also speaks about the power of the female form and how it leads men to their demise. How men seek to dominate women, but always end up worst for it.”