Fresh off of A24’s Lamb and Netflix’s The Trip, actress Noomi Rapace has set up her next genre role in You Won’t Be Alone.
Per Deadline, Focus Features’ supernatural horror thriller has been set for theatrical release on January 28, 2022.
The film is: “Set in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, the film follows a young girl who is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. Curious about life as a human, the young witch accidentally kills a peasant in the nearby village and then takes her victim’s shape to live life in her skin. Her curiosity ignited, she continues to wield this horrific power in order to understand what it means to be human.”
You Won’t Be Alone marks the feature debut by Australian-Macedonian writer/director Goran Stolevski. Kristina Ceyton (The Babadook, The Nightingale) and Sam Jennings (Cargo) produce.
The film also stars Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert (Ratched), Carloto Cotta, Félix Maritaud, and Sara Klimoska.