Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman, the writing team behind M. Night Shyamalan’s previous thriller Knock at the Cabin, have been tapped to adapt the coming-of-age horror thriller Wilderness Reform. The Paramount Pictures project is based on the novel of the same name, authored by Harrison Query and Matt Query.

Pet Sematary: Bloodlines writer-director Lindsey Anderson Beer will be producing the feature via her Lab Brew production company, as part of her first-look deal with Paramount. Ground Control’s Scott Glassgold is also aboard as producer.

In the Wilderness Reform novel, thirteen-year-old Ben is sent to a remote reform program for troubled teens by a juvenile court judge. But when he arrives at the camp, located on the edge of the vast wilderness of north-western Montana, he immediately senses that there is something off about the counsellors. Not only that they’re too friendly and upbeat, but that there’s something sinister lurking in the camp.

As he gets to know the boys in his cabin, he soon discovers that they each have far more going for them than whatever crime landed them there. And each has a different critical skill, one that could help them unearth what is really going on in this place—and how to make it out alive. They are inching ever closer to the truth, and the hidden evil beneath the camp’s surface will make itself known in order to deter them.