Production Blog

Organ Grinder

February 4, 2012 at 02:00

One of the challenges we faced in adapting "Hansel and Gretel" into our own little
repertoire of crime stories was firstly finding a crime that could live up to the morbidity
of the original. I mean let's face it, cannibalism is a pretty high bar to reach... that is,
unless Hansel and Gretel found themselves in the brutal black market of the Grimm
world where human organs are sold as medicinal elixirs to the highest bidder. And these
medical practices are definitely not "cruelty free."

  

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