Warm Bodies and Knight of Cups star will play the female lead in feature adaptation of horror sci-fi short, which premiered at SXSW.

Teresa Palmer will star in the feature adaptation of short Welcome to Willits: After Sundown.

The Warm Bodies and Knight of Cups star will play the female lead in the horror sci-fi, which follows a group of young campers who get lost in the woods near Willits, California and come across a man obsessed with aliens.

Trevor Ryan will direct the feature based on his own short, which he also wrote with his brother Tim Ryan.

The short premiered at SXSW in the festival’s Midnight Shorts competition.

Mark Webber, who is married to Palmer, will reprise his role from the short as the alien-obsessed man, while Palmer will play his niece.

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