Eli Roth to direct a Skarsgård in Hemlock Grove

Netflix is on a do-or-die mission to make up for its tumultuous 2011. The company has already begun its foray into the television production game, picking up discarded series like Arrested Development and, potentially, Fox's recent castoff Terra Nova. But Netflix has also got some of its own original pieces in the works. The newest in this collection is Hemlock Grove, an hour-long horror series with an impressive team behind it.

Multi-hyphenate Eli Roth, director of Cabin Fever and the Hostel movies, and the bat-wielding Donny Donnowitz in Inglourious Basterds, is helming and executive producing Hemlock Grove, which has Bill Skarsgard (brother of heartthrob Alexander Skarsgard and son of Norse god Stellan Skarsgard) and X-Men's Jean Grey Famke Janssen attached to star.

The series is based on a novel by Brian McGreevy, and will follow a Pennsylvania town resident's (Skarsgard) plight to solve a local murder, through mysterious, horrific and supernatural circumstances.

Hemlock Grove joins the company of Netflix originals including David Fincher's House of Cards, and Jenji Kohan's Orange Is the New Black.

[THR]