Netflix has premiered the official trailer for the third season of Ryan Murphy’s “Monster” anthology series at Netflix, this one starring Charlie Hunnam as serial killer Ed Gein.
In the frozen fields of 1950s rural Wisconsin, a friendly, mild-mannered recluse named Eddie Gein lived quietly on a decaying farm — hiding a house of horrors so gruesome it would redefine the American nightmare.
Driven by isolation, psychosis, and an all-consuming obsession with his mother, Gein’s perverse crimes birthed a new kind of monster that would haunt Hollywood for decades.
From Norman Bates in “Psycho,” Leatherface in “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” and Buffalo Bill in “The Silence of the Lambs,” Gein’s macabre legacy gave birth to fictional monsters born in his image and ignited a cultural obsession with the criminally deviant.
Gein didn’t just influence a genre — he became the blueprint for modern horror. Gein not only killed multiple people across the 1940s and the 1950s, he had also exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned clothing and household items from the remains.
Also starring are Laurie Metcalf as Ed Gein’s mother, Augusta, Tom Hollander as filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and Olivia Williams as Hitchcock’s wife, Alma Reville.
This follows on from the successful runs of the show’s first two seasons – Evan Peters playing Jeffrey Dahmer in the first, while the second focused on the Menendez brothers.
“Monster: The Ed Gein Story” will premiere on October 3rd.
