Will Netflix be able to challenge HBO, Showtime and AMC in the original material department? We'll find out soon with a diverse slate including
Arrested Development,
House Of Cards and the Eli Roth produced horror series
Hemlock Grove all on the horizon. And fans of Brian McGreevy's novel have just gotten their first taste of what Eli has been up to with the release of the first trailer. Check that below and let us know if it's how you pictured things. Check the Amazon synopsis of the novel below:
A charismatic young writer reinvents the gothic novel, bringing a
fresh energy to our darkest myths and deepest horrors in an
expectation-defying tale of adolescent deception, ravenous violence, and
rumors of werewolves
The body of a young girl is found
mangled and murdered in the woods of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania, in the
shadow of the abandoned Godfrey Steel mill. A manhunt ensues--though
the authorities aren't sure if it's a man they should be looking for.
Some
suspect an escapee from the White Tower, a foreboding biotech facility
owned by the Godfrey family--their personal fortune and the local
economy having moved on from Pittsburgh steel--where some suspect that
biological experiments of the most unethical kind take place. Others
turn to Peter Rumancek, a Gypsy trailer-trash kid who has told
impressionable highschool classmates that he's a werewolf. Or perhaps
it's Roman, the son of the late J. R. Godfrey, who rules the adolescent
social scene with the casual arrogance of a cold-blooded aristocrat, his
superior status unquestioned despite his decidedly freakish sister,
Shelley, whose monstrous medical conditions belie a sweet intelligence,
and his otherworldly, sexy control freak of a mother, Olivia. As the
crime goes unsolved and the police seem more and more willing to believe
any outlandish rumor, Peter and Roman decide the only way to save their
own skins is to find the killer themselves. Along the way they uncover
local secrets and designs that are much bigger than some small-town
murder.
Hemlock Grove is an exhilarating reinvention of
the gothic novel, inspired by the iconic characters of our greatest
myths and nightmares. At once a riveting mystery and a fascinating
revelation of the grotesque and the darkness in us all, Hemlock Grove
has the architecture and energy to become a classic in its own
right--and Brian McGreevy the talent and ambition to enthrall us for
years to come.