Title: Horror Thriller 'The Divine Comedy’ Unveiled by Skincrawl Studios URL Source: https://variety.com/2026/film/global/patricio-valladares-the-divine-comedy-skincrawl-studios-1236909263/ Published Time: 2026-10-13T08:57:53+00:00 Markdown Content: 1. [Home](https://variety.com/) 2. [Film](https://variety.com/v/film/) 3. [Global](https://variety.com/c/global/) ## Horror Adaptation of Dante’s ‘The Divine Comedy,’ by ‘Invoking Yell’ Director Patricio Valladares, Gets First Look From Skincrawl Studios The Dublin-based company is planning to present a teaser-trailer of the supernatural horror feature at the upcoming AFM  'The Divine Comedy' Courtesy of Skincrawl Studios Skincrawl Studios has debuted a first glimpse at Chilean filmmaker [Patricio Valladares](https://variety.com/t/patricio-valladares/)’ supernatural horror feature “The Divine Comedy,” a modern re-telling of Dante’s “Inferno.” The Irish production and distribution shingle, which specializes in horror and adjacent genre movies, is handling worldwide sales on the film, which recently wrapped principal photography.
“The Divine Comedy” is a co-production between Italy’s Anxur Films and Skincrawl Limited. Alessandro Gatto produces for Anxur, with Corrado Camilla and screenwriter Loris Curci producing on behalf of Skincrawl.
Starring Christopher Rygh (“Vikings: Valhalla”), Matthew Metcalfe, Tilda Metsola and Fadhillah Othman, the film is a contemporary reimagining of Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century narrative poem describing a journey into Hell.
Valladares directs from a screenplay by Curci (“The Ghosts of Monday,” “Havana Darkness”) that follows Dante, a grieving writer who descends into the realm of the dead in an attempt to bring back his deceased wife, Beatrice.
Guided by Virgil, a former priest, he journeys through increasingly nightmarish circles of Hell, confronting supernatural entities and manifestations of guilt, desire and suffering.  The Divine Comedy Courtesy of Skincrawl Studios “The challenge here was to turn Dante’s ‘Inferno’ into a visual experience,” Curci tells _Variety_.
“We took into account only the Hell segment of ‘The Divine Comedy.’ Of course, given the context and the complexity of the epic poem, we tried to focus mainly on the relationship between Dante and Virgil, and their voyage to the very bowels of the Inferno.