Italian director Andrea De Sica is getting behind the camera for a horror film based on a bestselling Gothic novel, reports Variety.
“Non Mi Uccidere”– written by late cult author Chiara Palazzolo, with a title that translates as Don’t Kill Me – “is about a 19-year-old named Mirta, who, with her older lover, Robin, dies of a drug overdose. She then resuscitates alone to find out that in order to continue living, and cherishing the memory of Robin’s love, she must eat living humans.”
The site adds that De Sica has been helming the bulk of the Netflix teen series “Baby,” and that Don’t Kill Me is geared towards the same youth demographic as the show.
De Sica described “Uccidere” as “not a full-fledged horror film but more a strange coming-of-age” tale and said he sees it “as the romantic and scary story of a young woman who dies and then resuscitates for love.”
De Sica made his directorial debut with Children of the Night, a coming-of-age story, set at an upper-crust boarding school, that the site says flirted with horror elements.
