This week, Netflix subscribers will get the opportunity to delve into a spine-tingling real-life narrative with the premiere of the latest installment of the Monster series on the platform.
The inaugural season of the series explored the life of the notorious serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer. Following its success, Netflix continued with a second season concentrating on the Menendez brothers, infamous for the murder of their parents in 1989.
In its third season, The Monster: The Ed Gein Story, set to debut on Netflix later this week, features Charlie Hunnam portraying the infamous serial killer Ed Gein.
Gein committed the gruesome murders of two women and transformed his abode into a ‘house of horrors’ by exhuming graves and mutilating bodies.
The discovery of his heinous acts unfolded when Bernice Worden vanished in 1957, prompting law enforcement to search Gein’s residence.
Authorities found the missing woman decapitated and suspended from the ceiling, and a deeper probe revealed that Gein had been fashioning garments from human skin.
The killer also possessed jars filled with organs and skulls repurposed as bowls.
When apprehended for Worden’s murder, Gein confessed to killing Mary Hogan and to exhuming corpses to collect body parts.
Although police attempted to connect him with additional local murders, they lacked sufficient evidence to charge him.
Following the success of the Jeffrey Dahmer and Menendez Brother editions of Monster, fans of Netflix are eagerly anticipating this next installment. It’s anticipated that The Monster: The Ed Gein Story will leave audiences deeply unsettled.
“This has the potential to be the creepiest and most horrifying thing to watch on Netflix,” one user commented on X.
Another remarked: “Ed Gein? Really? This could get wild! Are we ready for this level of horror?” Meanwhile, a third person suggested: “How about we make documentaries on the victims instead of glorifying serial killers.”
Leading up to the release of The Monster: The Ed Gein Story on Friday, October 3rd, writer Ian Brennan shared his thoughts with Tudum: “Once we talked about how influential he was and how his crimes, you can find threads of them through pop culture and through horror films — I think that’s when we knew we had a show.
“It’s really mind-blowing how influential one strange man in the middle of Wisconsin in a barn can be. That’s just the world we live in, that he lit this fuse that just continued popping off and set in motion this continuous topping of really intense, bizarre, strange imagery.
“I can’t think of another person who is really that influential to a genre of television and film.”