Hemlock Grove

Netflix reportedly has a hit on its hands with Hemlock Grove, the latest original series to stem from the VOD service, and today, we were provided with a 3-minute featurette that takes a look at the most talked about scene from the 13-episode season: The werewolf transformation.

In the featurette - entitled "It Hurts So Good" - the crew, including executive producer Eli Roth, discuss the nature of the transformation, performed by Landon Laboiron, and how it was executed.

The series begins with the murder of 17-year-old Brooke Bluebell.  Any of Hemlock’s peculiar inhabitants – or killer creatures – could be suspects. Through the investigation, the town’s seamier side is exposed, revealing nothing is what it seems.

Hemlock Grove isn’t like most small communities. When a teenage girl is murdered, two boys - Roman Godrey (Bill Skarsgard), the spoiled and possibly vampiric heir to the Godfrey estate, and Peter Rumancek (Landon Liboiron), a gypsy traveler and werewolf – step up to solve the shocking crime. As the investigation unfolds, though, the steel town’s deep, dark secrets come to light. Nothing is as it seems and the lines quickly begin to blur over whether Hemlock Grove’s monsters are supernatural – or just really twisted humans. 

Hemlock Gove is the second original series from Netflix, which has now made 13 episodes available. The show is based on the novel of the same name by Brian McGreevy, who serves as the series' writer and executive producer. Hostel’s horror maverick, Eli Roth, is also an executive producer, and obviously has an exuberant passion and enthusiasm for the genre.

“What Eli brings is such a great, offbeat sensibility to it all, that we all hung onto, which continues to go through the whole series and doesn’t leave,” says executive producer and director Deran Sarafian to several visiting journalists. “I was on from the beginning to listen to the stories. Along with Brian and Lee [Shipman], we would watch movies all the time. And we started with Rosemary’s Baby, because there’s a very dark sense of humor in Rosemary’s Baby that we have in this show. Even The Shining has a sense of humor to it, but you need a very visceral dark experience, and that’s what we kept hanging on to.” 

Here's one more preview for Hemlock Grove (review), the new series hitting Netflix with a 13-episode first season run this Friday.  This latest look is a "red band" trailer, so expect some grisly imagery.

Executive produced by Eli Roth, the series goes like this:  When 17-year-old Brooke Bluebell is brutally murdered, any of Hemlock’s peculiar inhabitants – or killer creatures – could be suspects. Through the investigation, the town’s seamier side is exposed, revealing nothing is what it seems.  Roth also helmed episode one.

One more Hemlock Grove clip was squeezed out of Netflix in anticipation of this Friday's release.  All 13 episodes of the series hit Netflix Instant.  Check out the  preview inside!  And if you haven't read our review yet, click here.

By now most if not all of us have probably spent a weekend binge-watching a show. Last summer this writer spent a few days devouring 3+ seasons of Breaking Bad after neglecting to watch the show upon its initial release. It can be a lot of fun with the right show, and it sure beats having to wait a week or more for the next new episode. Already providing viewers with plenty of binge-viewing options, Netflix is doing the same with its original programs. Their second series, Hemlock Grove, debuts on Friday, April 19th. All 13 episodes will immediately be available.

The series, executive produced by Eli Roth and based on a novel by Brian McGreevy, is a somewhat awkward hybrid of Twin Peaks and True Blood with a little class warfare mixed in. There’s a murder mystery and a small town that has fallen on hard times full of people with secrets and strange powers. And while it isn’t without interest, having seen the first 3 episodes, Hemlock Grove is too much like an R-rated CW series and not nearly as disturbing or involving as shows like Hannibal and Bates Motel. 

Another new clip from Hemlock Grove has been revealed, this one showcasing an attack on a young woman while she sits in her car by the railroad tracks.  This is actually from the opening moments of the series, which kicks off April 19th on Netflix.

When 17-year-old Brooke Bluebell is brutally murdered, any of Hemlock’s peculiar inhabitants – or killer creatures – could be suspects. Through the investigation, the town’s seamier side is exposed, revealing nothing is what it seems.

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Taking a page from American Horror Story's style of promotion, Hemlock Grove has yielded a 12-second spot, this one offering very little in the way of answers or major revelations.  Instead, it's simple and mysterious.  Head inside for a look.

A new clip from Hemlock Grove has made its debut; this one introduces Shelley, a teenager "with a giant heart."  She's just one of the many oddball characters featured in the Netflix original series debuting on April 19th.  You'll be able to catch all 13 episodes then.

Synopsis: When 17-year-old Brooke Bluebell is brutally murdered, any of Hemlock’s peculiar inhabitants – or killer creatures – could be suspects. Through the investigation, the town’s seamier side is exposed, revealing nothing is what it seems.

Read our interview with executive producer Eli Roth here.

Last Friday, everyone was buzzing about the big werewolf transformation of Hemlock Grove, Netflix's adaptation of the Brian McGreevy novel.

ShockTillYouDrop.com spoke with executive producer Eli Roth (who directed the first episode as well) briefly about this transformation which appears in an episode directed by Deran Serafian.

Serafian is where our conversation with Roth began because, in case the name doesn't jump out at you, Serafian spent the early days of his career on the Italian horror scene before going on to produce shows like House M.D.

Inside, Roth talks about the werewolf transformation, why gore has gone mainstream on television and offers an update on his cannibal film The Green Inferno.  All 13 episodes of Hemlock Grove season one will be available exclusively on Netflix beginning April 19th.

Netflix debuted a new clip from "Hemlock Grove" today at WonderCon, titled "The Monster Within," and you can now watch it after the jump! It's a werewolf transformation unlike any other.

From executive producer Eli Roth and based on Brian McGreevy's novel of the same name, "Hemlock Grove" is a riveting one-hour murder mystery that revolves around the residents of a former Pennsylvania steel town. When 17-year-old Brooke Bluebell is brutally murdered, any of Hemlock's peculiar inhabitants – or killer creatures – could be suspects. Through the investigation, the town's seamier side is exposed, revealing nothing is what it seems. Beautiful, terrifying and graphic, "Hemlock Grove" is unlike anything else in its genre.

Netflix released four new preview spots for Hemlock Grove, it's supernatural series debuting April 19th.  The previously-released trailers focused a lot of Famke Janssen's character; within you'll meet the other characters that populate the story.

Executive produced by Eli Roth (who also directed a few episodes) and based on the novel by Brian McGreevy, the series stars Lili Taylor, Landon Liboiron, Janssen, Bill Skarsgard, Dougray Scott, Freya Tingley, Aaron Douglas and Penelope Mitchell.  The show revolves around the murder of a young girl found close to the former Godfrey steel mill. The suspects in her killing include Peter (Liboiron), a 17-year-old Gypsy kid from the wrong side of the tracks, and Roman (Skarsgard), the arrogant Godfrey Scion, whose sister Shelley is disturbingly deformed and whose mother, Olivia (Janssen), is the beautiful and controlling grand dame of Hemlock Grove.

The latest trailer for Hemlock Grove - the new Netflix original series hitting April 19th - has hit the web and, well, I didn't expect this.  Then again, I never read the source material it is based upon (a novel by Brian McGreevy).  There's a werewolf or some sort of monster in this mix of melodrama, but you won't see it here.  Regardless of the trailer, I'll be binge-watching this the weekend of its release.

Executive produced by Eli Roth (who directed the first episode) and based on the novel by Brian McGreevy, the series stars Lili Taylor, Landon Liboiron, Famke Janssen, Bill Skarsgard, Dougray Scott, Freya Tingley, Aaron Douglas and Penelope Mitchell.  The show revolves around the murder of a young girl found close to the former Godfrey steel mill. The suspects in her killing include Peter (Liboiron), a 17-year-old Gypsy kid from the wrong side of the tracks, and Roman (Skarsgard), the arrogant Godfrey Scion, whose sister Shelley is disturbingly deformed and whose mother, Olivia (Janssen), is the beautiful and controlling grand dame of Hemlock Grove.

It's a Hemlock Grove kind of day.  On the heels of a poster debut, Netflix has also released eight official images from the series, which bows on April 19th.  Head inside for access to the pics!

Lili Taylor, Landon Liboiron, Famke Janssen, Bill Skarsgard, Dougray Scott, Freya Tingley, Aaron Douglas and Penelope Mitchell star.  Eli Roth (Hostel) took the helm of episode 1 and executive produced the series.

On April 19th, get ready for some extreme television binge-watching as that is the day Netflix debuts all 13 episodes in its horror series Hemlock Grove.  It's the next "original series" from Netflix - found via its Netflix Instant service - after House of Cards (which proved to be wildly successful) and, today, the poster art for Hemlock was released.  You can find it inside.

Executive produced by Eli Roth (who directed the first episode) and based on the novel by Brian McGreevy, the series stars Lili Taylor, Landon Liboiron, Famke Janssen, Bill Skarsgard, Dougray Scott, Freya Tingley, Aaron Douglas and Penelope Mitchell.  The show revolves around the murder of a young girl found close to the former Godfrey steel mill. The suspects in her killing include Peter (Liboiron), a 17-year-old Gypsy kid from the wrong side of the tracks, and Roman (Skarsgard), the arrogant Godfrey Scion, whose sister Shelley is disturbingly deformed and whose mother, Olivia (Janssen), is the beautiful and controlling grand dame of Hemlock Grove.  Watch the trailer right here.

We have a trailer to share with you from the Netflix Original Series Hemlock Grove from executive producer Eli Roth and based on Brian McGreevy's novel of the same name.  It has been revealed that the series will be available for members to watch instantly and in its entirety beginning April 19, 2013.

All 13-episodes of the series, which stars Famke Janssen, Bill Skarsgard, Landon Liboiron, Penelope Mitchell, Freya Tingley, and Dougray Scott will debut concurrently in all territories that Netflix is available – U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, Latin America, Brazil and Scandinavia.  

Head inside for the trailer.

Early next year, Netflix gets in on the televised horror game with the original series Hemlock Grove and it's doing so with the help of Eli Roth.  No start date has been announced but as of a few weeks back, when ShockTillYouDrop.com spoke to one of the stars, the show was still in production.

Today, the first photo from the show - in which Roth serves as an executive producer and director of episode one - hit the web and you can find it inside.

Lili Taylor, Landon Liboiron, Famke Janssen, Bill Skarsgard, Dougray Scott, Freya Tingley, Aaron Douglas and Penelope Mitchell star in the series which is based upon the book by Brian McGreevy.

The show revolves around the murder of a young girl found close to the former Godfrey steel mill. The suspects in her killing include Peter (Liboiron), a 17-year-old Gypsy kid from the wrong side of the tracks, and Roman (Skarsgard), the arrogant Godfrey Scion, whose sister Shelley is disturbingly deformed and whose mother, Olivia (Janssen), is the beautiful and controlling grand dame of Hemlock Grove.

The production outfit Gaumont has revealed two pieces of teaser art for Hemlock Grove, the Netflix original series helmed by Eli Roth, and Hannibal, currently shooting with David Slade (30 Days of Night) directing the pilot and Bryan Fuller acting as showrunner.

Both teasers are merely place holders and are not official.  Promos to get potential international buyers and other industry folk excited.

Hannibal - a new series from showrunner Bryan Fuller - is steeped in the world created by Thomas Harris and concerns the working relationship between Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) and Will Graham before the former is "outed" as a cannibal.  Hemlock Grove is based on the supernatural novel by Brian McGreevy.

We're still awaiting on air dates for both shows...

Aaron Douglas is the latest actor to sign up for Eli Roth's upcoming series Hemlock Grove,  which is going to be exclusive to Netflix.  Douglas is best known for his turn in SyFy's Battlestar Galactica as Chief  Galen Tyrol.  According to Deadline, he'll play a sheriff in the Hemlock Grove who is investigating the mysterious death of a young girl.  The actor is the second Battlestar vet to join the cast.  Recently, Kandyse McClure was attached as well.

With The Walking Dead raising record numbers for its second season finale, and American Horror Story fans eager for its re-conceptualized return, there’s a glut of horror-oriented TV in the pipeline, including Hannibal, Mockingbird Lane (The Munsters revamp), 666 Park Avenue, and an Untitled Kevin Williamson pilot. 

Come January, when one or two of these titles will likely be on the chopping block, Hemlock Grove will premiere with not just a single hour, but an entire thirteen-episode season, available for marathon viewing. But unlike the above-mentioned shows, you won’t be able to DVR it. 

Hemlock Grove, executive produced by Eli Roth and Brian McGreevy (author of the novel it’s based on, along with a handsomely drawn prequel comic), will be available exclusively on Netflix Instant.  The Pennsylvania-set series will explore biotechnology run amok, gypsies and billionaires, teenage sex, adult sex, a murder mystery, psychic manipulation closer to Jesse Custer’s Word of God more than Jedi mind tricks, a girl claiming impregnation by an angel, a boy who feels a testicular tingle when things are about to get hairy, arranged meet-ups with prostitutes in malls, an “Elephant Girl” who writes hyper-articulate emails but never speaks, a special agent from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hunting some seriously big game, and the practice of ingesting a worm from a corpse to channel the spirit of the deceased. Oh, and a werewolf and a maybe-vampire (as with The Hunger and Near Dark, “vampire” is never uttered).

The book is a quick, cutting read recommended for fans of transgressive fiction as much as horror.  There’s nothing twee, ‘tween or teen about it.  But that hasn’t stopped knee-jerk Twilight comparisons at the very mention of mythical monsters who happen to be in high school.  

Eli Roth and Brian McGreevy sat for a spirited panel discussion and Q&A at New York’s 92YTribeca last week, confident that those dismissing the show based on its familiar subject matter will come to embrace it. 

With no return trip to Terra Nova in store for him, actor Landon Liboiron is moving on to Hemlock Grove, the Netflix series to be directed by Eli Roth.

The show is based on a novel by Brian McGreevy and is planned for a 13-episode run.

Famke Janssen and Bill Skarsgard also star.  Head inside to find out who Liboiron is set to play.

Hemlock Grove, a novel by Brian McGreevy that is hitting stores later this month, is getting adapted for Netflix.  Famke Janssen and Bill Skarsgard are set to star for Gaumont International Television.  The series will be available for Netflix members to watch instantly, beginning early in 2013.

Eli Roth (Hostel) will direct.

Hemlock Grove starts with the body of a young girl, mangled and murdered in the shadow of the former Godfrey steel mill. Some suspect 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), the otherworldly beautiful and controlling grand dame of Hemlock Grove.

As the crime goes unsolved and outlandish rumors mount, Peter and Roman decide to find the killer themselves, confronting unspeakable truths about themselves and Hemlock Grove as the mystery unfolds.

Eli Roth is actually getting back in the director's chair for a new endeavor.  Since Hostel: Part II and the faux grindhouse trailer Thanksgiving, the writer-director has been exploring avenues in acting (Inglourious Basterds) and producing (The Last Exorcism).  He's also been developing a few scripts.

Today, news broke of his latest effort, which will see him tackling horrors on the small screen.

Roth is teaming up with Netflix and Gaumont for an adaptation of Hemlock Grove, a novel by Brian McGreevy.  Netflix/Gaumont are producing a 13-episode series of which Roth will executive produce and direct.

Never heard of Hemlock Grove?  Well, that's understandable.  The book isn't due out until March.  McGreevy is currently working on the screenplay with Lee Shipman.  Head inside for a description...