Discovery+ has just released the first trailer for
House of Hammer
, a three-episode documentary that will focus on the rise and fall of actor Armie Hammer.
This series, which will be broadcast on September 2, will dwell in particular on the allegations of psychological and sexual violence and manipulation that occurred last year against him, thus putting a serious blow to his yet promising career in Hollywood.
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In the documentary, two of the alleged victims testify.
Courtney Vucekovich and Julia Morrison detail their experiences with the
Call Me by Your Name
actor , providing screenshots of messages and voice notes of their alleged conversations with him.
We can see that Hammer verbalizes cannibalistic and fetishistic fantasies, the revelations of which caused a media storm last year.
In an SMS, he would have written for example: "I am 100% cannibal (...) I cut the heart of a living animal before and I ate it while it was still hot".
In a voice note played in the trailer, a voice can be heard saying: My decision would be to show up at your house, tie you up and completely incapacitate you so that I can do whatever I want with each of the orifices of your body until I'm done with you".
"Call Me By Your Name", the trailer
“He pushes your limits a little bit each time.
You are completely his,” says Courtney Vucekovich, who was in a relationship with the comedian in 2020 and was one of the first women to speak out on the affair in 2021. She claimed that during their relationship that he had spoken of his desire to break her ribs and "eat" them.
The documentary series, directed by Elli Hakami and Julian Hobbs, also investigates the darker aspects of the Hammer family, including the 1920 arrest of their great-great-grandfather, Armand Hammer, for manslaughter.
The latter's son, Julian, had also killed a man in 1955, but invoked self-defense.
Casey Hammer, the actor's aunt, is also interviewed there and delivers unpublished revelations on the hidden face of the men of his family: Seen from the outside, we were a perfect family.
(...) But if you believe in the pacts which one can make with the devil, the Hammers occupy the top of the scale.
Every generation of my family has been involved in dark misdeeds.
And it gets worse and worse.”
Since the case became public, the star forcefully denies all the charges against him and maintains, through his lawyer, that these relations were consensual.
He was nevertheless abandoned by his acting agency shortly after the first testimonies against him.
And would have started a six-month rehab for his problems with drugs, alcohol and sex addiction.
After withdrawing from Hollywood, he was spotted working as a timeshare agent in the Cayman Islands, where he spent part of his childhood.
House of Hammer
airs Friday, September 2 on Discovery+.
