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This Tempting Madness

2025 · 92 min

A disorienting slide into uncertainty, where every recovered memory feels like a trap and nothing you're shown can be trusted.

Directed by: Jennifer E. Montgomery
Genres: Thriller, Drama
Starring: Simone Ashley, Austin Stowell, Suraj Sharma

Tagline: Believe at your own risk.
Overview: After awakening from a coma with no memory and her husband under arrest, an injured woman pieces together her past, only to suspect she may be responsible for the tragedy.

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Directed by: Jennifer E. Montgomery
Genres: Thriller, Drama
Starring: Simone Ashley, Austin Stowell, Suraj Sharma

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Tone
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
identity
deception
guilt
obsession
Places: hospital
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: unreliable narrator
twist ending
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	3
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	3
Tension	8
Darkness	7
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: thriller, drama
Directed by: Jennifer E. Montgomery
Written by: Andrew M. Davis, Jennifer E. Montgomery
Starring: Simone Ashley, Austin Stowell, Suraj Sharma, Mojean Aria, Amol Shah, Zenobia Shroff, Bevin Bru, Auden Thornton
Runtime: 92 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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