The new trailer for Monster: The Ed Gein Story reveals the darkest instalment of the Netflix anthology series so far, which is surprising in its own right. Following on from the immense success and viewership of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan are returning to bring infamous serial killer and body snatcher Ed Gein to life in season 3. The anthology series has always been remarkably dark, unashamedly depicted its titular characters’ heinous crimes, but season 3 will take things to a whole new level.
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Charlie Hunnam takes center-stage as Ed Gein in a new trailer for Monster: The Ed Gein Story released on September 15th (via YouTube). Gein was the inspiration behind killers featured in legendary horror movies Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs, and the new trailer captures just how dark and haunting Ed Gein will be in the upcoming Monster season 3. Monster: The Ed Gein Story is scheduled to premiere on Netflix on October 3, 2025 – and will perhaps be the perfect story to watch in the lead-up to Halloween.
Why Monster: The Ed Gein Story Will Be the Darkest Season Yet
The trailers for Monster: The Ed Gein Story will be enough to disturb viewers, and these will barely scratch the surface of just how dark and twisted Ed Gein really was. His crimes are infamous, earning him the title of “the Butcher of Plainfield,” as he not only confessed to killing two women in 1954 and 1957, but also exhumed several corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their skin and bones. After being found legally insane, Gein was remanded to several mental health facilities until his death in 1984, but his crimes are not so easily forgotten.
Charlie Hunnam seems to be gearing up to deliver a powerful performance as Ed Gein, following on from his long-running stint as Jax Teller in Sons of Anarchy. Teller also became a controversial character by the end of the FX series, though certainly not to the same extent as Gein, so this may be the most demanding role of Hunnam’s career so far. Evan Peters described feeling “uncomfortable” after playing Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, and Gein could have a similar impact on Hunnam.
The Monster anthology has quickly become one of Netflix’s most popular properties, leading to it already being renewed for a fourth season. The next instalment will star Ella Beatty (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans) as Lizzie Borden, who was tried and acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother. Monster: The Ed Gein Story will surely leave its mark on Netflix and its viewers before the fourth season, however, bringing one of the most haunting, shocking, and disturbing killers in history to life.
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