Netflix Announces Hemlock Grove Starring Famke Janssen and Bill Skarsgard

Posted on March 21, 2012

Netflix has announced that Hemlock Grove, a tale of murder, mystery and monsters set in a ravaged Pennsylvania steel town will be available for Netflix members beginning early in 2013. The series, based on Brian McGreevy's graphic novel, stars Famke Janssen and Bill Skarsgard and is produced by Gaumont International Television. The 13 episode first season of Hemlock Grove is Eli Roth's first foray into serialized drama as a director and executive producer.

Hemlock Grove starts with the body of a young girl, mangled and murdered in the shadow of the former Godfrey steel mill. Some suspects the murderer is an escapee from the White Tower, a biotech facility owned by the former steel magnates. Others believe the killer could be Peter, a 17-year-old Gypsy kid from the wrong side of the tracks, who tells his classmates he's a werewolf. Or it could be Roman (Skarsgard), the arrogant Godfrey scion, whose sister Shelley is disturbingly deformed and whose mother, Olivia (Janssen), is the otherworldly beautiful and controlling grand dame of Hemlock Grove. As the crime goes unsolved and rumors mount, Peter and Roman decide to find the killer themselves.

Hemlock Grove is executive produced and written by McGreevy, author of the FSG Originals novel, and Lee Shipman. Also executive producing are Eric Newman, Michael Connolly and Mark Verheiden

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