Lifetime drops the creepy first trailer about the NXIVM sex cult featuring an Allison Mack lookalike

Lifetime has dropped the chilling first trailer about the NXIVM sex cult featuring an Allison Mack lookalike and detailing the true story of how Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg’s daughter India became a slave for convicted leader Keith Raniere.

The network released the clip for the upcoming made-for-TV film NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Nightmare Friday ahead of its September 21 release.

Rescue Me actress Andrea Roth will play the role of Catherine Oxenberg opposite Devil’s Whisper’s Jasper Polish as India and Peter Facinelli of Twilight as Raniere.

Sara Fletcher of Secret Girlfriend will portray Raniere’s right-hand, Smallville actress Allison Mack.

Lifetime has dropped the chilling first trailer about the NXIVM sex cult detailing the true story of how Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg’s daughter India, played by Jasper Polish (right) became a slave for convicted leader Keith Raniere, played by Peter Facinelli (left)

The network released the clip for the upcoming made-for-TV film NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Nightmare Friday ahead of its September 21 release

Lifetime will release a movie based on the infamous sex cult Nxivm this fall, detailing the true story of how former former Dynasty star Catherine Oxenberg’s daughter India became a sex slave for leader Keith Raniere. Catherine (right) and India (left) are seen arriving in court with their lawyer on the last day of Raniere’s trial in June, where he was convicted on all counts

The trailer shows Jasper Polish as India Oxenberg as she becomes a sex slave for leader Keith Raniere.

It is based on her mother Catherine Oxenberg’s memoirs after she took her then 20-year-old daughter to a leadership seminar at NXIVM.

In the clip Polish can be seen in terrifying scenes alongside actor Peter Facinelli as Raniere.

As ‘yes, master’ repeats viewers are shown how India becomes further trapped by the cult. In a voiceover viewers hear: ‘This is more than just top-secret. This is about learning to reach your maximum potential.’

Later we hear from Polish as India who says: ‘You have no idea what these people are capable of.’

Smallville actress Allison Mack, who is played by lookalike Sara Fletcher, says: ‘He just wants what’s best for all of us. Are you ready for your NXIVM transformation?’

Smallville actress Allison Mack is played by lookalike Sara Fletcher. The movie is based on Catherine Oxenberg’s memoirs after she took her then 20-year-old daughter to a leadership seminar at NXIVM

The character of Catherine Oxenberg (left) will be played by Andrea Roth (right) of Rescue Me, Lifetime representatives confirmed in a statement

India Oxenberg (left) will be played by Jasper Polish (right) from Devil’s Whisper

Cult leader Raniere (left) will be portrayed by actor Peter Facinelli (right) of Twilight fame

Smallville actress Allison Mack (left), Raniere’s right-hand, will be portrayed by lookalike Sara Fletcher of Secret Girlfriend (right)

‘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’s statement said of the movie produced with Sony Pictures Television.

‘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.’

The real-life Raniere was found guilty on all counts related to running the cult in June.

A former ‘slave’ testified at his federal sex trafficking trial that India was spent a year restricted to a 500-calorie-per-day diet after being recruited by Mack.

Another ex-‘slave’ testified that India went on to have her own slave.

She was said to be one of many DOS members who had Raniere’s initials branded on their bodies during a bizarre and excruciatingly painful ceremony.

Catherine was consistently present in the Brooklyn courtroom during the trial. After the sweeping guilty verdict was handed down, she called her daughter and excitedly said: ‘I’m so happy, congratulations.’

She asked India how she felt and then said: ‘You’re in shock, I’m in shock, too. I love you.’

It was Catherine who initially took India to a meeting for a Nxivm motivational course back in 2011 after her daughter wanted to try her hand at being an entrepreneur.

India was then allegedly lured into the secretive DOS group by Allison Mack, turning over ‘collateral’ to show her devotion and having her diet restricted to just 500 calories a day so that she could weigh 107 pounds, according to court records.

She also had Raniere’s initials branded on her skin near her pelvic area.

‘F*** him. He’s done. F***ing a**hole,’ Oxenberg later bluntly declared to the press.

THE SEX CULT WHICH SAW WOMEN STARVED, BLACKMAILED AND BRANDED

It took just four hours of deliberation for a jury to find Nxivm founder Keith Raniere guilty on all counts.

He now faces life in prison after being convicted of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, forced labor conspiracy, sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and attempted sex trafficking.

Raniere was also convicted on all 11 underlying counts of racketeering that fell under the wire fraud charge.

Former members of Nxivm and DOS burst into applause when the verdict was read, while the mother of one young woman who was one of Raniere’s ‘slaves’ had some choice words for the convict.

The case was largely centered around the secretive sect of Nxivm called DOS where women were starved, blackmailed, branded and forced to submit to a variety of sexual acts including orgies at the request of their ‘master,’ Raniere.

Raniere had entered a plea of not guilty to all charges. His sentencing has been scheduled for September 25 and he will continue to be held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn without bail.

The trial lasted for six weeks, during which time multiple women were called to the stand to describe how they served as ‘sex slaves’ to Raniere and were forced to have his initials branded on their bodies.

These women testified about how they were forced to turn over collateral in the form of damning and often false statements about themselves, while also providing graphic nude photos of themselves, including images of their genitalia.

That was not all either, with Raniere also making demands that the woman stay thin and not trim their pubic hair.

‘Over the last seven weeks, this trial has revealed that Raniere, who portrayed himself as a savant and a genius, was in fact a massive manipulator, a con man and the crime boss of a cult-like organization involving sex trafficking, child pornography, extortion compelled abortions, branding, degradation and humiliation,’ US Attorney Richard Donoghue said in a statement shortly after the verdict was read on Wednesday.

‘The evidence proved that Raniere was truly a modern-day Svengali.’

Raniere was found guilty on all counts related to running the cult last month in Brooklyn federal court (above in an artist’s rendering from the trial)

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