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TV: FX Gets Serial Killer ‘Heartsick’

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FX has put in development a drama series adaptation of Chelsea Cain’s best-selling book series “Heartsick,” reports Deadline. Mikko Alanne (5 Days Of War) is set to write the series adaptation. The thriller novels, “Heartsick,” “Sweetheart” and “Evil At Heart,” “Center on beautiful therapist-turned-series killer Gretchen Lowell and her relationship with damaged Portland detective Archie Sheridan.

Here’s Amazon’s synopsis: “Damaged Portland detective Archie Sheridan spent ten years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer, but in the end she was the one who caught him. Two years ago, Gretchen kidnapped Archie and tortured him for ten days, but instead of killing him, she mysteriously decided to let him go. She turned herself in, and now Gretchen has been locked away for the rest of her life, while Archie is in a prison of another kind—addicted to pain pills, unable to return to his old life, powerless to get those ten horrific days off his mind. Archie’s a different person, his estranged wife says, and he knows she’s right. He continues to visit Gretchen in prison once a week, saying that only he can get her to confess as to the whereabouts of more of her victims, but even he knows the truth—he can’t stay away.

When another killer begins snatching teenage girls off the streets of Portland, Archie has to pull himself together enough to lead the new task force investigating the murders. A hungry young newspaper reporter, Susan Ward, begins profiling Archie and the investigation, which sparks a deadly game between Archie, Susan, the new killer, and even Gretchen. They need to catch a killer, and maybe somehow then Archie can free himself from Gretchen, once and for all. Either way, Heartsick makes for one of the most extraordinary suspense debuts in recent memory.

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‘Namaslay’ Teaser Skewers Yoga Culture With Masala Horror Satire

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The wellness industry gets turned upside down in a blood-soaked cultural reckoning in the teaser for Namaslay.

The genre-bending horror satire that “reclaims the spirit of masala cinema while skewering the commercialization and appropriation of yoga in the West” releases in NYC/LA theaters on August 6 before expanding nationwide on August 13

In Namaslay, “After arriving in Los Angeles, Gayatri accepts an invitation from her friend Judy to try an upscale yoga studio she’s been dying to attend. When the owner, Reyna, offers Gayatri a chance to join her instructor training program, Gayatri decides to look past the obvious eccentricities and accept the job. As she reconnects with the practice of Yoga she first learned from her grandmother, Gayatri is eventually asked to attend the prestigious instructor’s retreat, where she discovers the ulterior nature of her invitation.”

Starring in the film are Kirunthuja Srikanth-Talim, Angela Sant’Albano, Alicia Mitchell-Mangual, with Usha Krishnan and Christina Moore.

Namaslay is written by Rish and Kanish (Rish Arhant-Sudhir and Kanish Arhant-Sudhir).

The film marks the first feature project from Junghal Studios, an independent production company founded by the directing duo in 2019. With the new label, Rish and Kanish are building a slate of ambitious masala event films inspired by artistic traditions from around the world. 

For the uninitiated, Masala films rose to prominence in the ’70s and blend a variety of unlikely genres; they’re also often musicals.

The first chapter in Junghal Studios’ mission, Namaslay, blends horror, satire, and the maximalist energy of masala cinema in its first teaser and poster below.

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