Hungry for a new series to sink your teeth into? Make sure you’re tuned in for The Horror of Dolores Roach, an Amazon Original eight-episode series from Blumhouse and Prime Video described as “a contemporary Sweeney Todd-inspired urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest.”
Starring Justina Machado (Six Feet Under), Alejandro Hernandez (Gotham), Kita Updike (The Misandrists), and K. Todd Freeman (A Series of Unfortunate Events), The Horror of Dolores Roach is based on the hit Spotify podcast series and follows:
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 official press release goes on to tell us more about the creation and production of the series:
Originally created by Aaron Mark as a one-woman play, Empanada Loca, Mark created, wrote, and directed the original podcast and penned the series pilot script. The new series comes from Mark, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer with Dara Resnik, alongside executive producers Daphne Rubin-Vega; Jason Blum, Chris McCumber, Jeremy Gold, and Chris Dickie for Blumhouse Television; Dawn Ostroff, Mimi O’Donnell, and Justin McGoldrick for Spotify; Gloria Calderón Kellett for GloNation Studios; and Roxann Dawson, who directed the pilot.
The Horror of Dolores Roach will premiere on July 7, exclusively on Prime Video. Check out the wild new trailer while you wait (which, disturbingly, has made us VERY hungry for empanadas…):
