You’re the one who can’t look away from the trailer for “Monster: The Ed Gein Story.”
The third installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan‘s true crime anthology series streams October 3 on Netflix.
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.
Charlie Hunnam stars as Gein alongside Laurie Metcalf as his mother, Suzanna Son as his only friend, and Tom Hollander as Psycho director Alfred Hitchcock.
“I lost almost 30 pounds just to get a more malnourished, light frame. Ed was incredibly lithe. And so that was a big part of the physicality,” Hunnam told Netflix. “I spent a lot of time thinking about where his energy was, that he’s not particularly confident or, like, front-foot type of energy … How to not take up a lot of space, not to be sort of front and center and too confident in my physicality was really important.”
Brennan wrote the eight-episode series and shared directing duties with Max Winkler.
Vicky Krieps, Olivia Williams, Lesley Manville, Joey Pollari, Addison Rae, Charlie Hall, Tyler Jacob Moore, Mimi Kennedy, Will Brill, and Robin Weigert round out the cast.
Murphy, Brennan, Winkler, and Hunnam executive produce alongside Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Louise Shore, and Carl Franklin.
“Monster” launched in 2022 with “The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” and was followed by “The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” last year.
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