BÖCKLIN ISLAND

Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Limited Series (6 x 50 min)
Rights Available: Worldwide
Tone: Adaptation meets Midsommar meets The White Lotus.

LOGLINE

On a remote island where people fake their deaths to vanish from society, three fugitives discover they are trapped in a sadistic experiment of poetic justice led by a deranged writer, where moral decisions shape their grotesque fates.

STORYLINE

Böklin Island is a clandestine refuge for those who have erased their identities and staged their own deaths. Run by Norman, a former journalist turned self-proclaimed moral arbiter, the island operates under a fabricated folklore of headless winged spirits and redemption rituals. But behind the myth lies a system of moral tests, where every choice is judged, and justice is delivered with twisted creativity.

The narrative follows three intertwined arcs:

• Rick, a journalist undercover seeking to confirm the island’s existence and reveal the truth, if he can escape alive.

• Jonas, a fallen dictator, faces brutal consequences unless he embraces an unlikely path to redemption.

• Svetlana, a woman escaping abuse with her teenage daughter, is forced into ethically murky decisions to survive.

By the time Rick uncovers the truth, he chooses not to escape, he stays, becoming Böklin’s new storyteller, and its next lie.

WHY THIS STORY

BÖKLIN ISLAND is a dark, intelligent genre piece exploring guilt, identity, and the fantasy of disappearing. A metafictional thriller with horror undertones.

VISUALS & STYLE

Visually, it draws from nordic minimalism and fine art iconography. Modern Scandinavian architecture in wood, stone, and glass. Symbolic visual language inspired by El Bosco’s “Garden of Earthly Delights”* and Böcklin’s “Isle of the Dead”. Elements of ritual, folk horror, and psychological tension, layered in a quiet, slow-burning atmosphere.

THEME 

You can disappear from the world. But not from the person you became to deal with it.