Rapture, the buzzy queer body horror thriller starring Kit Connor (Heartstopper) and Will Poulter (Midsommar), may finally begin filming as soon as this fall.

Set in 1348 Yorkshire, the year the Black Death came to the British Isles, Rapture follows a group of monks who must defend their remote monastery from a plague that turns its victims into undead beings. Manu Ríos (Elite) stars alongside Connor and Poulter.

According to a new listing on Production Weekly, Rapture is due to start filming this October, after production was originally expected to begin in Hungary last year. Distribution rights have already been acquired by IFC and Shudder in the US and True Brit in the UK, in what are understood to be multi-million-dollar deals.

Writer-director Jordan Tannahill has revealed that, amidst the body horror, the film will centre on “the deep, passionate relationship between these two young monks who have grown up together.” It remains to be seen whether Kit Connor and Will Poulter, who reunite after Warfare, will play these roles. The film sees Poulter return to the genre following his roles in horror comedy Death of a Unicorn and in Ari Aster’s acclaimed folk horror Midsommar.

The film will mark Tannahill’s directorial debut. The London-based Canadian filmmaker and playwright is next writing Summer in Heat, a romantic drama from Levan Akin (AMC’s Interview with the Vampire), which follows four teenage cousins attending a family wedding by the Black Sea, where tensions and secret desires are stirred when they all fall for the same young man.

Rapture unfolds at a Cistercian Yorkshire monastery known as Lansley Abbey, which houses 10 monks bound by a life of strict devotion. That life is disrupted by the arrival of a messenger, who brings news of a mysterious illness that is ravaging the land. Initially marked by hemorrhagic fever, the plague turns its victims into “revenants” — restless, undead beings. As the contagion closes in, Lansley Abbey becomes a battleground, while the monks are torn apart internally over whether to help the sick or protect the centuries of knowledge safe-guarded by the monastery.