Lifetime is increasing its Lady In franchise with Lady within the Cellar, its newest Ripped from the Headlines thriller.
Starring Kyla Pratt (The Proud Household) and Kelcey Mawema (Merciless Instruction), the film is about to premiere Saturday, August 23 at 8/7c on Lifetime.
In case you’ve missed any of the earlier motion pictures within the franchise and need to catch up, Lady within the Cellar follows Lady within the Attic, Lady within the Storage, The Lady Locked Upstairs, Lady within the Video, Lady in Room 13, Lady within the Basement, Lady within the Bunker, Lady within the Field and Lady within the Shed, amongst others.
Impressed by actual tales, the movie follows a single mom who resorts to excessive measures to manage her teenage daughter.
The logline: Rebecca (Pratt) grows more and more involved that her daughter Lory (Mawema) will not be making the proper life selections. The remaining straw comes when Rebecca learns that Lory has a secret boyfriend, and to forestall any additional errors, she decides to restrict Lory in their basement cellar. What Lory doesn’t know is that that is the similar cellar the place Rebecca was held captive by her abusive father years in the past. As Lory battles for survival, the neighbors start to note her absence, and Rebecca’s habits attracts suspicion, making her a primary suspect in her daughter’s disappearance. Haunted by her traumatic previous, Rebecca grapples along with her actions and the conflicting emotions of guilt and justification over what she has performed.
Lady in the Cellar is produced by Navid Soofi for PF Maple Productions Inc in affiliation with Studio TF1 America. Govt producers are Timothy O. Johnson, Meghan Hooper White and Amelia Burstyn. Robert Adetuyi directs from a script written by Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt.
