Monster: Ed Gein story Hits Netflix on October 3, 2025, and the streamer has just given us our first look at the new season of Ryan Murphy’s true crime antology. As the name suggests, the third season will follow the fictional life of the notorious killer Ed Gein (played by Charlie Hunnam), who confessed to killing two women between 1954-1957. Worse than it came his nickname ‘The Butcher of Plainfield’ from the authorities who discovered Gein -excavated corpses from local cemeteries to get … Memorial … for themselves.
It’s pretty clear that the new season Monster Will probably be the most gloomy and gory that follows from Murphy’s takes Jeffrey Dahmer and Lyle and Erik Menendez. As Netflix itself tells us: “Monster: Ed Gein story Tells the story of how a simple man in Plainfield, Wisconsin, became history’s most unambiguous Ghoul. He revealed to the world the most awful truth of all – that monsters are not born, they are made … by us. “
But the streamer also tells us that Gein “became the plan for modern horror”, with it was broadly reported that he served as inspiration for some of the Best horror movie, including PsychoAt Texas Chainsaw Massacreand The silence of the lamb. However, it is worth pointing out that these films were not actually his real life, which means that one of our first look posters has an actual inaccuracy that really abounds me.
Monster: Ed Gein story shows the killer as Texas -Motors Escape Murder, which he apparently wasn’t
Before Texas Chainsaw massacre … there was ed. Charlie Hunnam plays in Monster: The Ed Gein Story. Arriving October 3rd. Pic.twitter.com/trkpybcivnAugust 27, 2025
Newsflash, People: Ed Gein did not deliberately kill anyone using a chainsaw. At least not as far as we know. According to EBSCO Research, Gein’s first confirmed murder victim Mary Hogan was shot, while the second victim Bernice Worden was decapitated and separated beyond the point that he established a cause of death. While a number of other missing people were attached to Gein, none of them were proven over suspicion (and which they were never found, their cause of death cannot be proved).
That does not mean that Gein did not engage in some behavior, and that is mildly. The preserved remains of 15 other women were found on his property and created ‘masks’ out of human faces and even a full ‘women’s suit’, which was thought to have been made after his mother died. It is references from the case like this one that does Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre Comparisons ready, but here are where the lines cross.
Netflix’s marketing to Monster: Ed Gein story is obviously inspired by his influence on the said horror film, but it moves away from how seasons 1 and 2 were structured. Essentially, each season is a dramatization of real life, and to make it effective, scenes must be accurate. We can suspend faith enough to admit that he probably put his head in his mother’s lap, and he obviously made fleshy masks, but murdered with a chainsaw, even if there is no proof? Gein’s life becomes a parody, not serious drama.
Before the silence of the lambs … there were ed. Charlie Hunnam plays in Monster: The Ed Gein Story. Arrival October 3 Pic.twitter.com/bduklmidqcAugust 27, 2025
Of course, I’m not sure how much someone else will worry about the semantics. The pictures are striking and cooling in their own right, casting Hunnam’s version of Gein to the (word game calculated) monster that we all believed he was. I have no doubt that Murphy will create a visual sight so shocking we feel like the glamor days for American Horror Story‘s early seasons are good and truly back.
Still, it leaves a sour note. While Lyle and Erik Menendz -History won me back after Jeffrey Dahmer history went too far in my eyes, I fear Ed Gein storeY has already lost me with his theater.
