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SEE IT: First trailer for Armie Hammer docuseries ‘House of Hammer’ promises threats of cannibalism, family secrets

Armie Hammer attends the 13th Annual Go Gala on Nov. 16, 2019, in Los Angeles.
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Armie Hammer attends the 13th Annual Go Gala on Nov. 16, 2019, in Los Angeles.
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Armie Hammer allegedly declared he’s “100% a cannibal” to an ex-girlfriend, a trailer for a docuseries darkly reveals.

The snippet for the three-part discovery+ docuseries “House of Hammer,” released Wednesday, teases abuse and fetish fantasies from the “Call Me By Your Name” actor — complete with texts and voice memos allegedly sent to some of his former flames.

“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,” one text reads.

“100% a cannibal,” reads another.

“I am going to bite the f–k out of you,” the 35-year-old actor allegedly wrote in a note.

And in a voice memo, a man identified as Hammer talks of a sick bet.

“My bet 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,” he says.

Two exes, Courtney Vucekovich and Julia Morrison, also speak of troubling changes in attitude.

“In the beginning, I felt like this was all perfect; this was amazing,” Vucekovich said. “But then things changed. He pushes your boundaries a little bit at a time.”

Morrison also talks about being tied up and “completely immobilized.”

“I was closing my eyes until it ended,” she said tearfully.

Both Vucekovich and Morrison have previously come forward with allegations against Hammer, ranging from controlling behavior to sexual abuse. The actor has denied all wrongdoing.

“All interactions between Mr. Hammer and his former partners were consensual,” his lawyer Andrew Brettler previously said in a statement. “They were fully discussed, agreed upon in advance with his partners and mutually participatory. The stories perpetuated on social media were designed to be salacious in an effort to harm Mr. Hammer, but that does not make them true.”

Since then, Hammer has gotten dropped by his publicist, all of his movie projects and his wife. He entered a rehab facility and has reportedly been selling time shares in the Cayman Islands.

Armie Hammer attends the 13th Annual Go Gala on Nov. 16, 2019, in Los Angeles.
Armie Hammer attends the 13th Annual Go Gala on Nov. 16, 2019, in Los Angeles.

But in the same “House of Hammer” trailer, Hammer’s estranged aunt, Casey Hammer, alludes to a family full of “dark, twisted secrets.”

“On the outside, we were a perfect family,” she says.

“But magnify ‘Succession’ a million times and it was my family. if you believe about making deals with the devil, the Hammers are top of the totem pole. Every generation of my family has been involved in dark misdeeds. And it just gets worse and worse and worse.”

Among Hammer’s scandalous relatives are his great-great grandfather, Julius Hammer, who was convicted of first-degree manslaughter in 1920 when the wife of a Russian diplomat died after he gave her an abortion, and grandfather Julian Hammer, who killed a man in 1955 over a gambling debt — claimed self-defense and got the charges dismissed.

“Coupled with a trove of incredible archival footage, the docuseries weaves together a chilling story of the dysfunction and wickedness that grow behind decades of power and money,” reads the official description of the show. “Featuring exclusive revelations from Armie’s aunt, Casey Hammer, and multiple survivors of Armie’s alleged abuse, the docuseries brings to light the dark secrets — ranging from accusations of violence and abuse to political manipulation and financial fraud — hidden within one of America’s most prominent families.”

All three parts of “House of Hammer” premiere Sept. 2 on discovery+.