Netflix's Monster: The Ed Gein Story Season 3 debuts Oct 3

Netflix will premiere the third season of its true-crime anthology Monster, titled Monster: The Ed Gein Story, on Oct. 3, the streamer announced, releasing a teaser trailer that frames the season as a dramatization of the 1950s Wisconsin killer whose crimes inspired several landmark horror films. Charlie Hunnam stars as Ed Gein in the Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan co-creation, which the creators serve on as executive producers and co-writers, according to Netflix.

The trailer and official synopsis position Gein as the grim archetype behind movie monsters, opening with police searching his decaying farmhouse and finding grisly objects reportedly fashioned from human remains. The trailer includes a line that reads, "Before Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs, there was the monster that inspired it all," and depicts Hunnam responding to the voice of his mother, played by Laurie Metcalf. The footage culminates in a scene showing Hunnam donning one of the series' recreated items of human skin, images the trailer presents as central to Gein's macabre legacy.

Netflix released an extensive ensemble cast list. In addition to Hunnam and Metcalf, the company...