Dark Sky Films has acquired the North American distribution rights to the folk horror film Blood Shine.

Brendan Sexton III (Session 9), Emily Bennett (Shelby Oaks), David Call (Insidious: The Red Door), Larry Fessenden (You’re Next), and Toby Poser (Hellbender) star.

It follows Brighton West (Call), a troubled horror filmmaker who retreats to upstate New York to complete his screenplay. He encounters Clara (Bennett), a devout zealot who worships the light through solitary, sacred rituals, and becomes entangled in her increasingly extreme spiritual practices.

Convinced that her sadistic ceremonies will transform him into a god, Clara draws Brighton into a hallucinatory descent into faith, flesh, and the sublime.

The husband-and-wife duo Emily Bennet and Justin Brooks, co-write and co-direct. Brian Spears (Smile 2, “American Horror Story”) provides the film’s gore effects.

Producers include Aaron B. Koontz via Paper Street Pictures (Shelby Oaks, Scare Package) and Alexander Schepsman, Garrett Fennelly and Zeus Kontoyannis via Zeus Pictures.

Ashleigh Snead and Cameron Burns serve as co-producers for Paper Street. Michael McFadden, G. Riley Mills, and Matt Sullivan executive produce.

Dark Sky’s sales division, MPI Media Group, is representing additional international territories at this year’s European Film Market in Berlin.

Variety first reported on the acquisition.