Lock your doors because Netflix\u2019s latest serial killer is on the loose.<\/p>\n
Charlie Hunnam stars as Ed Gein, a murderer known as \u201cThe Butcher of Plainfield\u201d and \u201cThe Plainfield Ghoul,\u201d in the third season of Netflix\u2019s anthology series \u201cMonster.\u201d The show premieres on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe Ed Gein Story\u201d logline 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 \u2013 hiding a house of horrors so gruesome it would redefine the American nightmare. Driven 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\u00a0\u201cPsycho\u00a0\u201cto\u00a0\u201cThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u201d\u00a0to\u00a0\u201cThe Silence of the Lambs,\u201d Gein\u2019s macabre legacy gave birth to fictional monsters born in his image and ignited a cultural obsession with the criminally deviant. Ed Gein didn\u2019t just influence a genre \u2014 he became the blueprint for modern horror.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to Hunnam, the cast includes Laurie Metcalf as his mother Augusta Gein, Tom Hollander as film legend Alfred Hitchcock, Olivia Williams as Hitchcock\u2019s wife and screenwriter Alma Reville, Addison Rae as missing teen Evelyn Hartley, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville, Charlie Hall, Suzanna Son and more.<\/p>\n
Co-created and executive produced by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, \u201cMonster\u201d previously profiled Jeffrey Dahmer and Erik and Lyle Menendez in the first two seasons, to great success. The show is executive produced by Murphy, Brennan, Max Winkler, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Louise Shore, Carl Franklin and Hunnam. In addition to writing the season, Brennan directed with Winkler.<\/p>\n
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