Up-and-comer Ali Faulkner (Twilight: Breaking Dawn) is set to star in the psychological thriller The Secret Village. The story centers on two researchers studying an outbreak of mass hysteria in a small village.

The film is directed by something called a Swampy Kandan and costars Jonathan Bennett (Mean Girls), Stelio Savante (Starship Troopers Marauder) and Richard Riehle (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3-D).

Faulkner’s horror creds include the cannibal-themed dark comedy Boneboys and the horror-comedy Humans Versus Zombies. She also played bad speller and Volturi secretary Bianca in Twilight: Breaking Dawn — Part One.

She will next be seen as Tricia Wilkes in Matthew Spradlin’s big-screen adaptation of his and Barry Wernick’s comic book “Bad Kids Go to Hell,” about the mysterious murders of six privileged private school students during an eight-hour Saturday morning detention.