Strangers writer and director Bryan Bertino is set to scare the shit out of us with his new creature-feature There Are Monsters, slated for release later this year from A24. While it’s not the eagerly awaited Strangers 2 sequel, There Are Monsters pits two emotionally estranged people up against an evil force.

Zoe Kazan (“Bored to Death”) stars in the film as a young single mom trying to protect her 10-year-old daughter from the ravenous and mysterious beasts hunting them down in a black forest. Making matters worse is the little girl’s lack of faith in her fucked up mother’s abilities.

Kazan is coming off the political drama Our Brand Is Chaos and has starred in such notable dramatic fare as Revolutionary Road and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and the Anthony Hopkins led crime thriller Fracture.