Netflix explores a serial killer who would change pop culture forever in the first trailer for “Monster: The Ed Gein Story.” The Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan drama will premiere all episodes on October 3.
The third season of “Monster” will star Charlie Hunnam (“Sons of Anarchy”) as Gein. Laurie Metcalf (“Lady Bird,” “The Conners”) will play Gein’s mother, Augusta, and Tom Hollander (“Feud: Capote vs. Swans”) will play Hitchcock. Suzanne’s son Vicky Krieps, Olivia Williams, Lesley Manville, Addison Rae, Joey Pollari, Charlie Hall, Tyler Jacob Moore, Mimi Kennedy, Will Brill and Robin Weigert also star in the Netflix original.
Watch the trailer above.
Before there was “Psycho,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” or “Silence of the Lambs,” there was Ed Gein. After his mother died in 1945, Gein largely kept to himself on the family farm. It wasn’t until nearly a decade later that authorities uncovered the horrors that had taken place on the property. Gein exhumed bodies from local cemeteries and made mementos from the flesh and bones, such as lampshades and chair covers. He also told police he was trying to build a “woman’s suit” so he could impersonate his mother. Then there were the murders.
Gein confessed to the murders of tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954, as well as hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957. Gein is also suspected of killing his brother Henry.
He was eventually found guilty of first-degree murder but declared unfit to stand trial because he was legally insane. Gein was confined to a mental institution and died of lung cancer in 1984. But it was his string of crimes that inspired Robert Block’s 1959 short-lived novel “Psycho,” which led to Alfred Hitchcock’s cinematic masterpiece of the same name.
In addition to creating the series, Murphy and Brennan Executive Produce. Other EPs include Max Winkler, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Louise Shore, Carl Franklin and Hunnam. Brennan will direct the third and fourth episodes, and Winkler will direct the first two, as well as the remaining four. Brennan also writes the series.
More to come…
