Genre queen Pollyanna McIntosh (The Walking Dead franchise, The Woman) and Millie Brady (Roadkill, The Last Kingdom) are leading the cast of Irish horror-thriller Double Blind, Deadline has announced. 

Written by Darach McGarrigle and directed by Ian Hunt-Duffy in what is both of their feature debuts, Double Blind follows seven strangers taking part in a paid drug trial who become trapped in the lab after the side effects of the study escalate the situation into a nightmarish scenario: if they fall asleep, they die.

The cast also features Brenock O’Connor, Abby Fitz, Shonagh Marie, Diarmuid Noyes, Frank Blake, and Akshay Kumar.

In a statement, Hunt-Duffy stated that “as a filmmaker, I am deeply passionate about creating original, suspenseful, and intelligent genre cinema, and I believe that the hook of our story – fall asleep and you die – is so evocative and memorable. It takes something ordinary and innocent and makes it deadly. We have a fantastic ensemble cast led by Millie Brady and horror icon Pollyanna McIntosh, so I cannot wait for audiences to experience the tension, claustrophobia, and dread that we have in store.

Double Blind is currently shooting in Ireland.