From Jeffrey Dahmer to the Menendez Brothers, Netflix's "Monster" true-crime anthology has explored some of the most notorious and complicated criminals in American history. And the upcoming third season of the thriller series will take on the infamously terrifying man who inspired serial-killer classics like "The Silence of the Lambs", "Psycho" and "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre": Ed Gein.
"Monster: The Ed Gein Story" will star "Sons of Anarchy" lead Charlie Hunnam as the titular murderer, who became known as "the Butcher of Plainfield" and "the Plainfield Ghoul" for his 1950s crime spree of killing multiple women and exhuming other corpses from local graveyards, fashioning keepsakes from their bodies.
The series — which is co-created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, with Murphy acting as primary writer for the season — will debut all eight episodes on Friday, October 3, just in time for spooky season. The date announcement arrived today, August 28, along with a fresh crop of promo posters featuring Hunnam as the menacing murderer.
“In the frozen fields of 1950s rural Wisconsin, a friendly, mild-mannered recluse named Eddie Gein lived quietly on a decaying farm,” per the official synopsis, “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...[that] 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.”
Along with Hunnam as Gein, the "Monster" season 3 cast includes Emmy winner Laurie Metcalf ("The Conners") as Gein’s mother Augusta, Tom Hollander ("The White Lotus") as "Psycho" director Alfred Hitchcock and Olivia Williams ("The Crown") as Hitchcock’s wife Alma Reville, Suzanna Son ("Red Rocket") as Gein's onetime girlfriend Adeline Atkins, and "Phantom Thread" costars Vicky Krieps as Ilse Koch and Lesley Manville as Bernice Worden, Gein's final victim. Elsewhere in the ensemble is Joey Pollari, Tyler Jacob Moore, Charlie Hall, Will Brill, Mimi Kennedy and Robin Weigert.
Each installment of the "Monster" anthology has delved into the sinister histories of America's most notorious killers, beginning with "Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story," which starred Evan Peters as the titular serial killer, in September 2022. That was followed by 2024's "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story," which recounted the 1989 parricides of José (Javier Bardem) and Kitty Menendez (Chloë Sevigny), at the hands of their sons Lyle (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) and Erik (Cooper Koch).
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