Directed by Jennifer E. Montgomery, the film ‘This Tempting Madness’ Inspired by a true story. Mia awakens from a coma with no memory of the past six months — and the man she loves has vanished. As fragments of her past slowly resurface, the picture they form grows increasingly disturbing. What happened to her? What happened to him? And why can’t she trust her own mind?
The life she thought she knew — beautiful, enviable, safe — begins to reveal its fault lines. Caught between conflicting accounts and her own fractured recollections, Mia is forced to confront how love and fear became indistinguishable, how danger crept in long before she had a name for it, and how the person she trusted most may have been the one she should have feared.
?’This Tempting Madness’ is a psychological thriller about memory, trauma, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive — a haunting exploration of what happens when the mind breaks to protect itself, and what it takes to find your way back..
‘This Tempting Madness’ stars Simone Ashley (as Mia), Austin Stowell (as Jake), Suraj Sharma (as Ajay, Mia’s brother), Mojean Aria (as Tony), Amol Shah (as Raj, Mia’s father), and Zenobia Shroff (as Lakshmi, Mia’s mother).
Written by Jennifer E. Montgomery and Andrew Davis, ‘This Tempting Madness’ is produced by Jennifer E. Montgomery, Andrew Davis, Jessica Malanaphy, Marcei Brown, and William Day Frank, with executive producers Marcei A. Brown, Mimi Chang, Andrew Davis, William Day Frank, Jessica Malanaphy, and Jennifer E. Montgomery, with executive producers David Gendron and Viviana Zarragoitia. Production companies are Smoke Jumper Films, Mango Monster Productions, and Catchlight Studios.
The film’s cinematography is by Andrew Davis, the music is by Rebekka Karijord, with editing by Kiran Pallegadda.
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Vertical will release ‘This Tempting Madness’ in select theaters and on video on demand on June 12, 2026.
For more details, visit the official website here: https://www.thistemptingmadness.com/
Simone Ashley is most known for Bridgerton and The Devil Wears Prada 2. Austin Stowell is most known for NCIS: Origins and Bridge of Spies. Suraj Sharma is most known for Life of Pi. Zenobia Shroff is most known for The Marvels and The Big Sick.
