Netflix to Release Monster The Ed Gein Story October 3, 2025

Netflix will release Monster The Ed Gein Story as the third installment in its true crime anthology series on October 3, 2025, making all episodes available worldwide on the streaming platform. The season centers on Ed Gein, portrayed by Charlie Hunnam, and continues the series’ approach of examining infamous criminals through a perspective that emphasizes how monsters are shaped by surroundings and choices rather than born fully formed. The project is created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, with Brennan directing several installments and Murphy executive producing.

Set in the 1950s in rural Wisconsin, the season portrays a man described as a friendly, mild mannered recluse who lived on a decaying farm and kept a house of horrors that would redefine the American nightmare. The logline emphasizes a disturbing arc driven by isolation, psychosis, and an all consuming fixation on Gein’s mother, a combination that the show argues produced a new kind of monster that would leave a lasting mark on horror film and pop culture. Gein’s real life, including exhumations of bodies and crimes attributed to him, has long influenced iconic works such as Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and...