The latest entry into Ryan Murphy's true crime anthology series Monster hits Netflix on October 3, with today bringing a first look at star Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) as notorious killer Ed Gein, aka the “Butcher of Plainfield.”
The third season of Monster, from Murphy and Ian Brennan, subtitled The Ed Gein Story follows 2022's The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, starring Evan Peters as the notorious serial killer, and 2024's The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, which starred Nicholas Chavez and Cooper Koch as the Menendez brothers, convicted of killing their parents in 1989. This time around, Monster will follow the life and crimes of Gein, whose offenses, including exhuming corpses and fashioning furniture from dismembered body parts, served as the basis of many horror movie villains including Psycho‘s Norman Bates, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre‘s Leatherface, The Silence of the Lambs‘ Buffalo Bill and House of 1000 Corpses‘ Firefly Family.
An official plot synopsis from Netflix reads:
Serial killer. Grave robber. Psycho. 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 Psycho to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to 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. Ed Gein didn't just influence a genre — he became the blueprint for modern horror.”
Starring alongside Hunnam in Monster are Laurie Metcalf as Gein's mother Augusta, Tom Hollander as legendary Psycho director Alfred Hitchcock, Olivia Williams, Vicky Krieps and Addison Rae.
Check out the new look posters for Monster: The Ed Gein Story below and look out for the series hitting Netflix on October 3.
