By MICHAEL GINGOLD
She’s a serial murderer by circumstance.
Based on Spotify’s hit podcast, with creator Aaron Mark encoring on the series as a showrunner and executive producer, THE HORROR OF DOLORES ROACH premieres July 7 exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories internationally. Produced by Amazon Studios, Blumhouse Television, Spotify and GloNation, with the pilot written by Mark and directed by Roxann Dawson, it stars Justina Machado, Alejandro Hernandez, Kita Updike, K. Todd Freeman, Marc Maron, Cyndi Lauper and Judy Reyes. According to the official synopsis, the show “is a contemporary SWEENEY TODD-inspired urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest. Dolores Roach [Machado] is released after an unjust 16-year prison sentence, and she returns to a gentrified Washington Heights. Dolores reunites with an old stoner friend, Luis [Hernandez], who lets her live and work as a masseuse in the basement under his empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, ‘Magic Hands’ Dolores is driven to shocking extremes to survive.”
The first three episodes (the second directed by Edward Ornelas and the third by American Young) will world-premiere this Thursday, June 15 at the Tribeca Film Festival, followed by a Q&A with Machado, Hernandez, Updike, Freeman and executive producer Gloria Calderón Kellett. See more information and buy tickets here.
