Netflix has dropped the first trailer for the upcoming season of Monster, titled Monster: The Ed Gein Story, which will this time chronicle the story of infamous 1950s serial killer and grave robber Ed Gein.
First came a look at the posters — with The Gentleman star Charlie Hunnam looking downright sinister in the titular role — and now, we have a trailer solidifying the spookiness.
Here’s everything we know about the freaky deaky Ryan Murphy series.
Is there a trailer for Monster: The Original Monster?
There sure is!!!!!!
Netflix just dropped the horrifying trailer and you’ll need to brace yourselves for this one.
Spoiler: keep your eyes peeled for a certain Diet Pepsi-swigging pop star…
Who has joined the cast?
TikTok sensation turned viral pop star Addison Rae will be joining Hunnam to scare the living daylights out of us all.
While the roles are currently under wraps, we have received a full cast list which also includes: Tom Hollander, Laurie Metcalf, Suzanna Son, Vicky Krieps, Olivia Williams, Lesley Manville, Joey Pollari, Charlie Hall, Tyler Jacob Moore, Mimi Kennedy, Will Brill and Robin Weige.
What a cast!!!!!
What is Monster: The Ed Gein Story about?
If you’re unfamiliar with the lore, those references make sense, since Gein’s series of both confirmed and suspected killings around his hometown of Wisconsin are said to have inspired all three of those horror films.
“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,” Monster’s official logline reads, per Variety.
“In the frozen fields of 1950s rural Wisconsin, a friendly, mild-mannered recluse named Eddie Gein lived quietly on a decaying farm – hiding a house of horrors so gruesome it would redefine the American nightmare.”
The posters, which see Hunnam wielding a chainsaw and peeling another face off his own, make reference to Psycho, Silence of the Lambs and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, saying that before all those horrific tales, “there was Ed”.
In what is billed as the anthology series’ “most harrowing installment yet” (which is saying a lot), Monster: The Ed Gein Story will trace the killer’s origins, murders and capture.
Alongside his confirmed role in the killing of two women in the 50s (and suspected role in numerous other disappearances and deaths), Gein gained notoriety for digging up corpses from local graveyards and fashioning keepsakes from their skin and bones.
Alongside Hunnam, the third season of Monster will star The White Lotus’ Tom Hollander, and Lady Bird’s Laurie Metcalf, as well as Charlie Hall, Mimi Kennedy and Lesley Manville.
Monster: The Ed Gein Story is the third addition to showrunner Ryan Murphy’s Monster anthology universe, and will follow on from last year’s Erik and Lyle Menendez-centred season and 2022’s The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
It’s Ryan Murphy, so naturally the previous instalments attracted controversy around the supposed glamourisation of the titular killers, as well as accusations of promoting false rumours about the Menendez brothers and outrage over retraumatising Dahmer’s victims.
There’s no doubt Monster: The Ed Gein Story will draw similar fanfare, since Murphy has again proven his ability to cast a hot guy as a serial killer.
Throw in a gay subplot that may or may not have happened and we’ll have a classic Murphy project on our hands.
When will it be released in Australia?
Monster: The Ed Gein Story will hit the streamer on October 3, but in the meantime, catch the OG series on Netflix.
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