Netflix to release Monster The Ed Gein Story Oct 3 with 8 episodes

Netflix will release Monster The Ed Gein Story, the third season of its true-crime anthology Monster, on Friday, October 3, with all eight episodes debuting simultaneously on the streamer. The season stars Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein and arrives worldwide on a staggered schedule that Netflix lists as 8 a.m. British Summer Time, 12 a.m. Pacific Time and 3 a.m. Eastern Time in the United States, and 9 a.m. Central European Summer Time.

Produced by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, Monster The Ed Gein Story continues the anthology’s pattern of dramatizing notorious criminal cases, following earlier seasons that examined Jeffrey Dahmer and Lyle and Erik Menendez. The new entry reenacts the story of Ed Gein, the midcentury Wisconsin recluse whose crimes and the investigation of his property influenced a number of well-known fictional villains in Hollywood films.

The cast includes Laurie Metcalf as Augusta Gein, Suzanna Son as Adeline Watkins, Tom Hollander as Alfred Hitchcock, Vicky Krieps as Ilse Koch, Olivia Williams as Alma Reville, Lesley Manville as Bernice Worden, Joey Pollari as Anthony Perkins, Charlie Hall as Deputy Worden, Tyler Jacob Moore as Sheriff Schley, Addison Rae as Evelyn...