What’s the matter with Armie Hammer? A new Discovery+ docuseries gets to the bottom of the disturbing accusations against the disgraced actor through a long look at his family’s legacy. And Hammer’s aunt, Casey Hammer, helps the three-part series peel back the layers of her nephew’s troubled mind. As she says in the show’s new trailer, “I’m about to reveal the dark, twisted secrets of the Hammer family.”
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“House Of Hammer” investigates accusations against the actor of sexual abuse and cannibalistic fantasies on two levels. First, there are first-hand accounts of his alleged victims through on-camera interviews. The other comes from Casey, who offers an inside look at Armie’s family and its history of violent crime.
Here’s the show’s official logline, courtesy of Discovery+:
Debauchery. Deceit. Abuse. Addiction. Corruption. Over the course of five generations, the men in the Hammer family have more secrets and scandals than any vault can contain. Armie Hammer’s alleged crimes are only the tip of the iceberg. Through a trove of archives and interviews from survivors and family members, the dark and twisted secrets of the Hammer family come to light. Behind the money and power lies a dysfunctional dynasty with its male characters exhibiting all the devastating consequences of privilege gone wild.
The trailer for “House Of Hammer” looks especially incriminating for Hammer. Voice memos in the trailer include Hammer allegedly saying, “My best was going to involve showing up at your place and completely tying you up and incapacitating you and being able to do whatever I wanted to every single hole in your body until I was done with you.” Messages Hammer allegedly sent women interviewees include “I have a fantasy about having someone prove their love and devotion and tying them up in a public place at night and making their body free use,” “I am 100% a cannibal,” and a handwritten note that reads “I am going to bite the f*ck out of you.”
Hammer has continued to deny the allegations against him since they were first made public in January 2021. The actor’s fall from grace from Hollywood leading man to persona non grata was very swift, as well as very public. Back in July, Variety reported that Hammer was broke and living in the Cayman Islands with ex-wife Elizabeth Chambers and their children working as a manager of an apartment complex and selling timeshares. After word got out about his whereabouts, Hammer retreated to a home of Robert Downey Jr.’s in Los Angeles.
What twisted secrets with “House Of Hammer” reveal? Find out when the docuseries premieres on Disicovery+ on September 2. Watch the trailer below.