Dolores Roach Is a Serial Killer You’ll Be Dying to See Win

The series is being called “a contemporary Sweeney Todd” that focuses on love, betrayal and cannibalism.

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Justina Machado stars in The Horror of Dolores Roach on Prime Video.

A fun subgenre of horror movies are those in which the audience ends up rooting for the bad guy. When a female killer is the villain of the movie, it can fall into the “Good for Her” subgenre. Generally an audience takes the villain’s side for a reason like the characters being killed are annoying or the revenge the villain is taking seems deserved in a twisted way. For instance, we love to cheer for Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) in Gone Girl (2014) even though her character is a liar and a murderer who tried to put her husband (Ben Affleck) away for life for a crime he didn’t commit.

Rosamund Pike perfectly played a villain we can’t help but root for in Gone Girl (2014).

Next up for fans of “Good for Her” horror? The Horror of Dolores Roach on Prime Video.

The Horror of Dolores Roach is a new comedy horror series following the title character Dolores Roach (Justina Machado) as she is released from prison after serving 16 years for a bogus weed charge. She returns to her old neighborhood, Washington Heights, to find it gentrified and her friends and family moved away. Her only remaining friend Luis (Alejandro Hernandez) gives Dolores the space underneath his failing empanada shop to live and run a massage business. When a client threatens Dolores’ newfound freedom, she goes to a shocking extreme to protect herself and Luis develops a popular new empanada recipe during the “cleanup” process.

Dolores (Justina Machado) helps out her friend Luis (Alejandro Hernandez) with some special meat for his empanada shop.

Based on a one-woman play turned into a hit Spotify podcast of the same name, the series is being called “a contemporary Sweeney Todd” that focuses on love, betrayal and cannibalism. Dolores Roach is a scrappy, down-on-her-luck everywoman whose actions may be murderous, but they’re also entirely understandable. She is the kind of killer horror audiences love to cheer for.

Produced by Blumhouse, the first season of The Horror of Dolores Roach will have 8 episodes and premieres on Prime Video on July 6, 2023 at 8pm Eastern Time.

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