Maybe selling his soul to the devil was the best thing he could have done? It was revealed today that 30 Days of Night director David Slade – right off the heels of the announcement that he’ll get behind the camera the third Twilight film, Eclipse – is attached to helm a new horror film Cold Skin, for Madrid and Paris-based Kanzaman. Read on for the first ever details on this horror/psychological thriller.
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David Slade, the director of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, 30 Days of Night and the incredible Hard Candy, is attached to direct “Cold Skin,” for Madrid and Paris-based Kanzaman.

An Antarctic island horror/psychological thriller, “Skin” adapts the best-selling Spanish novel of the same title.

In this grim, H.G. Wellsian fable, an unnamed European of unspecified nationality is hired to spend an unspecified mid-20th-century year logging wind conditions on a tiny Antarctic island. Anticipating solitude, the bookish young man soon discovers that he has a neighbor–the pathologically reclusive Gruner–and that each night, the island is overrun by humanoid killer amphibians. He and brutish Gruner–who has tamed a “toad” of his own–join forces, killing monsters by night and fornicating with Gruner’s pet by day. Inspired by the creature’s ability to laugh and cry–to say nothing of her perky breasts, knack for housework and wordless submissiveness–the narrator begins to think of the cold-blooded creatures as human. When he tries to befriend them and their children, his efforts pacify the humanoids, but not Gruner; the hopeful idyll ends when the older man launches a last suicidal effort to exterminate the “monsters.” Gruner’s death plunges our hero into a rut of battle, drunkenness and bestiality so complete that when his replacement arrives, he has become as feral as Gruner was before him.

Sounds like a little Fog meets Dagon in a very lovecraftian subject.

“Skin” will be produced by Denise O’Dell and Mark Albela, partners at Kanzaman.

International rights for “Skin” will be handled by 6 Sales, which will represent the film at the Cannes market next month.

“David was always our first choice for `Cold Skin’ because he knows how to handle the psychological horror, and he’s CG savvy as well,” O’Dell said.

“Skin” is skedded to shoot in March. Budget for the f/x-heavy pic is pegged around $25 million.

Slade’s credits include 2006’s “Hard Candy” and 2007’s “30 Days of Night.”Kanzaman produced Milos Forman’s “Goya’s Ghosts” and co-produced soon-to-bow Nia Vardalos starrer “My Life in Ruins.”

Olmo co-wrote Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s “28 Weeks Later.”