{"id":24387,"date":"2025-09-15T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/24387\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:11:07","slug":"the-ed-gein-story-gets-bloody-and-brutal-new-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/24387\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ed Gein Story gets bloody and brutal new trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Charlie Hunnam and Laurie Metcalf star in Monster as Ed Gein and his mother Augusta. (Netflix)<\/p>\n

The trailer for Ryan Murphy\u2019s third Monster series, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, is here, and it features a stripped-off Charlie Hunnam and a terrified Addison Rae.<\/p>\n

Monster: The Ed Gein Story <\/a>tells the gut-churning true-life tale of Ed Gein, a man dubbed the \u2018Butcher of Plainfield\u2019 for his murderous streak and penchant for robbing graves in his home of rural Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Gein, who died in a mental health institute in 1984, will be portrayed in the new, eight-part Netflix series by Charlie Hunnam<\/a>, best known for his roles in Queer As Folk<\/a> and Sons of Anarchy.<\/p>\n

The first, bloody and brutal trailer has just landed, and it features Hunnam going full-frontal for a twisted scene involving Gein\u2019s mother Augusta (Lady Bird star Laurie Metcalf), and \u201cDiet Pepsi\u201d singer Addison Rae<\/a> as Evelyn, a babysitter and one of Gein\u2019s suspected victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cEddie, you\u2019re a mess. Only a mother could love you,\u201d Augusta says as the trailer opens, as a haunting version of Pet Shop Boys\u2019 \u201cIt\u2019s A Sin\u201d plays.<\/p>\n

Ed Gein was famously obsessed with his mother, who died in 1945, with the Gein story serving as the inspiration for Robert Bloch\u2019s 1959 novel Psycho, and the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name that followed in 1960.<\/p>\n

The White Lotus star Tom Hollander<\/a> will play Hitchcock in Murphy\u2019s new series. Suzanna Son plays Gein\u2019s only friend, Adeline.<\/p>\n

As the trailer continues, Ed Gein\u2019s crimes only get more horrifying, as he asks a seemingly deceased woman \u201cIs this OK?\u201d while desecrating her body.<\/p>\n

Hunnam then appears in women\u2019s clothing and wearing a skin mask made of human flesh, as it becomes clear that Gein has both taken bodies from graves, and gathered his own collection of bodies through murder.<\/p>\n

Later scenes show Gein\u2019s house of horrors full of various items made of skin.<\/p>\n

In one scene, singer Addison Rae appears as Evelyn looking petrified as she\u2019s strapped to a chair in just her underwear.<\/p>\n

\"\"Addison Rae as Evelyn in Monster: The Ed Gein Story. (Netflix)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m such a big fan of Charlie and he\u2019s so amazing,\u201d Rae said<\/a> of being involved in the series.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Laurie and Suzanna \u2014 I got to work with so many people that I\u2019ve loved their work. I\u2019ve never worked on a production that felt so intentional in every piece. And I think that is really inspiring to be around.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking to Tudum<\/a>, Hunnam revealed how much went into his portrayal of Gein, both physically and mentally.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lost almost 30 pounds just to get a more malnourished, light frame. Ed was incredibly lithe. And so that was a big part of the physicality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent a lot of time thinking about where his energy was, that he\u2019s not particularly confident or, like, front-foot type of energy\u2026 How to not take up a lot of space, not to be sort of front and centre and too confident in my physicality was really important.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Charlie Hunnam underwent a physical transformation to play Ed Gein. (Getty\/Netflix)<\/p>\n

Gein confessed to murdering two women in his life, tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954, and hardware shop owner Bernice Worden in 1957, and is suspected of being behind several other unsolved missing persons cases in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

After Worden\u2019s body was found on Gein\u2019s property, investigating officers also discovered a slew of human bones and flesh fragments, plus items fashioned out of skin and skulls.<\/p>\n

The official synopsis for Monster: The Ed Gein Story reads: \u201cSerial 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 \u2014 hiding a house of horrors so gruesome it would redefine the American nightmare.<\/p>\n

\u201cDriven by isolation, psychosis, and an all-consuming obsession with his mother, Gein\u2019s perverse crimes birthed a new kind of monster that would haunt Hollywood for decades. From Psycho to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to The Silence of the Lambs, Gein\u2019s macabre legacy gave birth to fictional monsters born in his image and ignited a cultural obsession with the criminally deviant.<\/p>\n

\u201cEd Gein didn\u2019t just influence a genre \u2014 he became the blueprint for modern horror.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hot Milk star Vicky Krieps, Queer actress Lesley Manville, and The Wheel of Time\u2019s Olivia Williams will also star.<\/p>\n

Monster: The Ed Gein Story lands on Netflix on 3 October.<\/p>\n

Share your thoughts! Let us know in the comments below, and remember to keep the conversation respectful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Hunnam and Laurie Metcalf star in Monster as Ed Gein and his mother Augusta. (Netflix) The trailer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[24759,430,24651,156,24650,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-24387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-addison-rae","tag-celebrities","tag-charlie-hunnam","tag-entertainment","tag-monster-the-ed-gein-story","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}