Horror/sci-fi fans take note because Cold Skin is a movie you will definitely want to catch. The chilling French/Spanish co-production drops in US theaters September 7. Certainly, all horror fans are going to want to check this baby out.
Directed by Hitman helmsman Xavier Gens, the trailer for the film looks very intriguing, and features David Oakes as a young Irishman named Friend.
In his movie review, Bryan Yentz of Rue Morgue.com had described the plot of Cold Skin this way:
“Set in 1914, COLD SKIN follows “Friend” (yes, that’s actually his name), a young man who sails to an island in the South Atlantic to work as a weather official—following the death of the previous meteorologist. Upon this lonely islet is one other man, a crotchety lighthouse keeper named Gruner (Ray Stevenson) who has customized said lighthouse with spears and all manner of siege-protection. . . But from what?
Well, as it turns out, every night ushers an armada of aquatic denizens (referred to as “Toads”) onto dry land where they attack the lighthouse (and anyone unlucky enough to be caught outside). To survive, Friend reluctantly partners with Gruner. He immediately comes to discover he’s tamed one of the female creatures as a housewife of sorts.”
Furthermore, the article draws comparisons between this film and the Guillermo del Toro 2018 Academy Award winner for best picture winner The Shape of Water.
Based on a Novel
The film is based on the 2002 debut novel of Catalan author Albert Sánchez Piñol. Furthermore, the novel was a great success and, according to its Wikipedia page
“The novel had remarkable success with numerous reprints and translations rights. It has been translated to 37 languages, and more than 150.000 copies were sold in its original edition.”
Consequently, the novel’s first English printing was in 2006.
