David Slade’s Cold Skin Poster Promises Scales, Skin, and Sex

Whoa, so does this mean David Slade’s “Cold Skin” might end up getting made and finished before the director’s outing as a “Twilight” director? Nope, even though we’re already getting a teaser poster for Slade’s “Cold Skin”, a psychological horror film scheduled to shoot sometime in March 2010, which would put it about the time Slade wraps the third “Twilight” movie. The teaser poster of course doesn’t reveal much, though it, along with the description below, do seem to indicate Slade might be staying faithful to the original novel’s more sexual elements.

Based on the best-selling Spanish novel by Albert Sánchez Piñol, COLD SKIN is set on an Antarctic island, where a young man is stationed to log wind conditions. He discovers that the place is the habitat of nocturnal, amphibious humanoids, and encounters an older man there named Gruner, who has tamed one and made it his sex slave. The protagonist comes to care for the female creature, leading to conflict with both Gruner and her kin.

“Cold Skin” is based on the Spanish novel by Albert Sánchez Piñol, and is being adapted by Jesús Olmo (”28 Weeks Later”). The description and teaser poster definitely sells the film’s more sexual aspects. Namely that the male lead indulges in a little, well, inter-species hedonism during his stay on said island.

Yup, it’s that type of movie. So basically Slade will be going from two vastly different movies in the same year. It’s gonna be fascinating to see how he manages that.

Poster via STYD, description via Fangoria.