After earning the Cheval Noir Award at Fantasia earlier this summer, Deadline reports that Altered Innocence has acquired the supernatural gothic romance No Rest for the Wicked.
No Rest for the Wicked will continue its festival run, with Altered Innocence eyeing a theatrical release in 2027.
Set on the Faroe Islands in 1862, the film follows “a young fisherman whose isolated life is transformed by the arrival of Helge (Pilou Asbæk), a rugged Danish whaler. As a forbidden attraction grows between the two men, tragedy unleashes supernatural forces upon their deeply religious community. Baldur and Helge’s passion gives rise to a haunting tale of love that refuses to die.”
The horror movie is written by Rasmus Birch, directed by Kasper Kalle, and stars Pilou Asbæk (Overlord, Game of Thrones), Egor Venned, Sofia Nolsøe Mikkelsen, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson and Kjartan Hansen.
No Rest for the Wicked is inspired by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs’ 1885 short story Manor, published before Bram Stoker’s seminal 1897 novel, Dracula.
“I’ve always had a huge love for queer horror, so it’s especially exciting to get to release one that operates at this level,” said Altered Innocence founder Frank Jaffe. “No Rest For The Wicked is a stunning, sexy and deeply romantic gothic tale that I can’t wait for fans to sink their teeth into!”
Joe Lipsett wrote in his 4-skull Fantasia review, “Writer/director Kasper Kalle has crafted a beautiful and atmospheric supernatural romance that capitalizes on the beauty of the Faroe Islands. Seriously, the scenery is so stunning that large swaths of the movie play like an advertisement for the tourism board. Aside from being gorgeous to look at, the film lives and dies based on the relationship between Baldur and Helge, which is romantic and forbidden in the film’s first half and melancholy and tragic in the back half.“