Netflix’s first look at Monster: The Ed Gein Story is obscenely chilling, but it’s already made one huge mistake

Monster: The 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 anthology. As the name suggests, the third season will follow the fictionalized life of notorious murderer Ed Gein (played by Charlie Hunnam), who confessed to killing two women between 1954-1957. Worse than that, his nickname 'the Butcher of Plainfield' came from authorities discovering Gein exhumed corpses from local graveyards to make... keepsakes... for himself.

It's pretty clear that the new season Monster will probably be the most grim and gory, following on from Murphy's takes on Jeffrey Dahmer and Lyle and Erik Menendez. As Netflix itself tells us: "Monster: The Ed Gein Story tells the story of how one simple man in Plainfield, Wisconsin, became history’s most singular ghoul. He revealed to the world the most ...