Netflix Drops Chilling ‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ Official Trailer

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Netflix drops the official trailer for Monster: The Ed Gein Story
The series stars Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein, exploring his life and how his crimes inspired horror
It premieres on Netflix on October 3, 2025

Netflix has released the trailer for the third season of its crime series, Monster. This season, titled Monster: The Ed Gein Story, explores the life of Ed Gein, a notorious murderer who inspired famous horror villains like Norman Bates in Psycho and Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The trailer suggests a disturbing look at how someone becomes a killer and how true crime stories became so popular.

Okay, I just saw the trailer and wow, Charlie Hunnam is completely unrecognizable as Ed Gein! It looks like he’s playing this quiet, lonely guy living in the Wisconsin countryside in the 50s, but there’s something seriously creepy going on behind closed doors. Tom Hollander is narrating as Alfred Hitchcock, which instantly sets this really unsettling tone. But the most disturbing part? There’s a scene where Gein is dancing, and then he turns to the camera wearing… his mother’s face as a mask. It’s a really shocking visual that clearly references the horrifying things the real Ed Gein did.

Starring Laurie Metcalf as Gein’s mother and Addison Rae as one of his victims, the series promises a chilling look inside the mind of Ed Gein, one of America’s most infamous murderers. All episodes of *Monster: The Ed Gein Story* will be available on Netflix starting October 3, 2025.

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