Fans of the Netflix anthology series Monster will get to watch actor Charlie Hunnam in a new and scary role as Ed Gein, one of America’s most famous serial killers, in less than two weeks. Ryan Murphy is coming back to the streaming service for a third season after the success of the first two, which were about the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers. This season promises to be the most disturbing yet.
The next season, called Monster: The Ed Gein Story, will look at the life of the infamous killer from the 1950s. Gein, who was known as the “Butcher of Plainfield,” not only admitted to killing two people, but he also dug up graves to make clothes and other household items out of human parts.
Story and Cast
The series will follow Gein’s life from his lonely childhood in Plainfield, Wisconsin, to his spiral into lunacy. Laurie Metcalf will play Gein’s very pious mother, Augusta, who died in 1945 and is said to have been a big reason for his atrocities. Tom Hollander plays the famous movie director Alfred Hitchcock, and Olivia Williams plays his wife Alma Reville. This shows how Gein’s atrocities affected some of Hollywood’s most famous horror movies.
Gein’s father was an alcoholic and his mother was emotionally abusive. She taught her sons that all women were “instruments of the devil.” Gein became a recluse when his mother died. He lived in the family farmhouse, where he would later commit his horrible murders. Police found out about his sick actions in 1957 when they looked into the disappearance of Bernice Worden, the owner of a local hardware store. Authorities found Worden’s headless body in Gein’s shed, along with a “house of horrors” full of things created from human remains, like a corset built from a woman’s torso and a belt made from her nipples.
Gein was convicted guilty of killing Worden, but he was deemed incompetent for trial and spent the remainder of his life in psychiatric hospitals. He died of lung cancer in 1984 when he was 77 years old.
Monster: The Ed Gein Story will be available on Netflix on October 3, 2025, and all eight episodes will be released at the same time.