IFC has picked up the North American distribution rights to director Josh Reed’s Primal, a brutal and gory survival-frightener set in Australia.

An ecstatic Reed tells Fearnet:

IFC’s a great company with a great eclectic vision that includes a taste for the weird and blood-soaked wonderful. Primal couldn’t be in better hands.

Primal centers on a group of friends that turn savage after skinny-dipping in a remote waterhole during an expedition to find an aboriginal painting. Aussie babes Zoe Tuckwell-Smith and Krew Boylan headline.

Check out the trailer:

To see a bloodier teaser, go here.