Charlie Hunnam has undergone a chilling transformation in the full trailer for Netflix’s upcoming “Monster: The Ed Gein Story.” The third season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s horror anthology promises to be its darkest yet, with the “Sons of Anarchy” star stepping into the role of one of America’s most notorious killers.
‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ Trailer Reveals Season 3’s Horrors
Netflix’s new trailer doesn’t hold back. It shows Ed Gein—played by Hunnam—committing brutal murders and donning the skins of his victims, a grotesque nod to the crimes that inspired “Psycho,” “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” and “The Silence of the Lambs.” In one chilling moment, Hunnam’s Gein dances in human skin, embodying what the streamer describes as “the blueprint for modern horror.”
The narration throughout the trailer comes from Tom Hollander, who portrays Alfred Hitchcock. His presence signals that season 3 will also explore Hollywood’s obsession with Gein, particularly Hitchcock’s creation of Norman Bates in “Psycho.” Laurie Metcalf plays Augusta Gein, Ed’s domineering mother, and the preview ends with a haunting exchange between mother and son that underlines the psychological roots of his crimes.
“This is going to be the really human, tender, unflinching, no-holds-barred exploration of who Ed was and what he did,” Hunnam told Netflix’s Tudum. “But who he was being at the center of it, rather than what he did.”
Charlie Hunnam On Becoming Ed Gein
For Hunnam, capturing Gein’s unsettling presence required intense research. The actor revealed that he gained access to the only known recording of Gein, taped just days after his 1957 arrest. “It’s about an hour-and-10-minute interview with him, while he’s in custody,” Hunnam explained. “A lot of the musicality, and his inflection, and his choice of words, and where his energy sat, I was able to extract from it.”
Ryan Murphy also emphasized Gein’s cultural impact. “He’s probably one of the most influential people of the 20th century, and yet people don’t know that much about him,” Murphy told Tudum. “He influenced some of the biggest serial killers of the 20th century… Ted Bundy, and on and on and on.”
The official logline describes the series as: “Serial killer. Grave robber. Psycho. 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.”
As Murphy notes, the theme of the anthology remains consistent: Are monsters born, or are they made?
Catch Charlie Hunnam in “Monster: Ed Gein” on Netflix on October 3.
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