Monster: The Ed Gein Story Hits Netflix on October 3, 2025, and streamer has just taken our first glance to the new season of the true criminal anthology of Ryan Murphy. As the name implies, the third season will follow the fictitious life of the famous murderer Ed Gein (played by Charlie Hunnam), who confessed to kill two women between 1954-1957. Worse than that, his nickname ‘Plainfield’s butcher’ came from the authorities who discovered that Gein exhummed corpses of local cemeteries to do … memories … for himself.
It is quite clear that the new season Monster It will probably be the most gloomy and bloody, following Murphy’s shots on Jeffrey Dahmer and Lyle and Erik Menéndez. As Netflix tells us: “Monster: The Ed Gein Story He tells the story of how a simple man in Plainfield, Wisconsin, became the most unique Ghoul in history. He revealed to the world the most horrible truth of all: that the monsters are not born, they are made … for us. “
But streamer also tells us that Gein “became the plan for modern horror,” since it is widely reported that it served as an inspiration for some of the The best horror movies, including Psychopath, The massacre of the Texas chainsawand The silence of the lambs. However, it is worth noting that these films were not really their real life, which means that one of our first -glance posters has an objective inaccuracy that is really bothering me.
Monster: Ed Gein’s story shows the murderer as the Texas chain killer who apparently was not
Before the massacre of Texas’s chainsaw … Ed. Charlie Hunnam was starring Monster: The Ed Gein Story. Arriving on October 3. Pic.twitter.com/trkpybcivnAugust 27, 2025
Newsflash, People: Ed Gein did not kill anyone who wore a chainsaw. At least, not as far as we know. According to Ebsco Research, the first victim of confirmed murder of Gein, Mary Hogan, was shot, while the second victim Bernice Worden was beheaded and landed beyond the point of establishing a cause of death. While other missing persons were linked to Gein, none of them demonstrated beyond suspicion (and as they were never found, their cause of death cannot be proven).
That does not mean that Gein does not participate in some twisted behavior, and that puts it gently. The preserved remains of 15 other women were found in their property, creating ‘masks’ outside human faces and even a complete “woman’s suit”, which was believed to be done after her mother died. They are references of the case like this that make the Psychopath and The massacre of the Texas chainsaw Clear comparisons, but this is where the lines cross.
Netflix marketing for Monster: The Ed Gein Story Obviously it is being inspired by its influence on these horror films, but that moves away from how seasons 1 and 2. Essentially, each season is a dramatization of real life, and to do so effectively, the scenes must be precise. We can suspend the belief enough to admit that he probably put his head in his mother’s lap, and clearly made fleshy masks, but killing with a chainsaw even though there is no evidence? Gein’s life becomes a parody, not a serious drama.
Before the silence of the lambs … Ed. Charlie Hunnam was starring Monster: The Ed Gein Story. Arriving on October 3. Pic.twitter.com/bduklmidqcAugust 27, 2025
Of course, I’m not sure how much anyone else will care about by the semantics. The images are surprising and relaxed in their own right, shaping the Gein version of Hunnam in the monster (word game) that we all thought it was. I have no doubt that Murphy will create a visual show so shocking that we will feel like the days of glory of American horror storyThe first seasons are fine and truly back.
Even so, leave a bitter note. While The story of Lyle and Erik Menéndez He won me again Jeffrey Dahmer’s story I went too far in my eyes, I’m afraid Ed Gein StorAnd he has already lost me with his theater.
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