Vera Farmiga is heading back into supernatural territory with “Inferno”

Vera Farmiga is not done with horror.

The “Conjuring” star has signed on to lead “Inferno,” a new supernatural thriller written and directed by Bryan Hill. Farmiga will also executive produce, with filming expected to begin next spring.

This one drops her into occult police work.

Farmiga plays a former detective whose hunt for a killer forces her back into a secret Scotland Yard division known as the Black Branch, a unit devoted to investigating paranormal cases. Whatever she left behind there apparently stayed unfinished.

That premise has some good dirt under its nails already. Police procedural horror works beautifully when the investigation keeps pushing past rational explanations and nobody can simply close the file once the dead start behaving badly.

“The Exorcist III” understood that. So did parts of “Angel Heart,” where detective work slowly became something much uglier than solving a crime.

Hill has been working across comics, television and film for years, with credits connected to projects including “Titans.” “Inferno” will put him behind the camera for a story he wrote himself.

Farmiga hardly needs an introduction to supernatural horror audiences at this point. Lorraine Warren became one of the anchors of “The Conjuring” universe, but stepping into another occult story without Ed Warren, Annabelle or the Warrens’ artifact room gives her somewhere new to go.

No release date has been announced and the rest of the cast is still under wraps.

Scotland Yard apparently had an occult department all along.

Naturally, Vera Farmiga found it.