Overview

• All eight episodes of the third Monster installment will stream globally on Netflix on October 3.
• Charlie Hunnam leads as Ed Gein, with Laurie Metcalf as Augusta Gein and Tom Hollander portraying Alfred Hitchcock; the ensemble also features Suzanna Son, Vicky Krieps, Olivia Williams, Lesley Manville, and Addison Rae.
• The season comes from creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, with Brennan writing and directing select episodes as Max Winkler directs the majority; Hunnam serves as an executive producer.
• Netflix’s full trailer highlights graphic dramatizations of grave-robbing and murders, shows Gein trying on human skins, and closes with the line, “You’re the one who can’t look away.”
• Hunnam says he lost nearly 30 pounds and studied the only known recording of Gein to shape the character’s voice, cadence, and physicality.