Yep, Lifetime Is Making A Movie About The Infamous N.Y. Sex Cult
In case you don’t remember, the weird upstate N.Y. sex cult called Nxivm, where women were starved and branded like cattle, shocked the country this year. Now, Lifetime is making a movie of the horrific story.
NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Nightmare, will be focusing on the true story of former Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg, whose daughter, India, became a sex slave for cult leader Keith Raniere.
Andrea Roth will play the role of Catherine Oxenberg, and Jasper Polish will portray India, according to Lifetime. Actor Peter Facinelli (Twilight) will play Raniere and Sara Fletcher (Secret Girlfriend) will portray Raniere’s right-hand man.
“When Catherine learns about a leadership seminar from a new organization called Nxivm she decides to take her 20-year-old daughter India to the professional development meeting. Led by the extremely enigmatic Keith Raniere, Catherine can’t help but shake the feeling there’s more than meets the eye with the self-help organization,” Lifetime said in a statement for the film.
“Despite Catherine’s best efforts, India is drawn deeper into the cult, eventually joining a secret sorority of female members who are branded with the cult leader’s initials, ordered to maintain a restricted diet and forced to recruit other women as sex slaves…[It] tells the story of a mother who will stop at nothing to get her daughter back.”
Grab the popcorn — we guess?!