Cold Skin is a 2017 science fiction horror film directed by Xavier Gens (The Crucifixion; The ABCs of Death, segment “X Is for XXL”; Frontier(s)) from a screenplay by Jesús Olmo (28 Weeks Later), based on the novel by Albert Sánchez Piñol. It stars David Oakes, Aura Garrido and Ray Stevenson.
On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War I, a steam ship approaches a desolate island far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man, on his way to assume the lonely post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the end of the world.
However, on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace, just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name. The rest is forest, a deserted cabin, rocks, silence, and the surrounding sea. And then the night begins to fall…
Main cast:
David Oakes, Aura Garrido, Ray Stevenson, John Benfield, Iván González, Ben Temple, Winslow Iwaki.
Production companies:
Kinology/Kanzaman France/Babieka Films
Filming locations:
Spain and the Canary Islands
Trivia:
Director David Slade (30 Days of Night) was originally slated to direct.
