Netflix has unveiled its first look at the upcoming season of Monster, which will this time chronicle the story of infamous 1950s serial killer and grave robber Ed Gein.
Monster: The Orginal Monster will hit the streamer on October 3, but in the meantime, we’ve copped a look at the posters — with The Gentleman star Charlie Hunnam looking downright sinister in the titular role.
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”.
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.”
In what is billed as the anthology series’ “most harrowing installment yet” (which is saying a lot), The Original Monster 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.
The Original Monster 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 The Original Monster 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.
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