Monster Season 3 Shocks Fans With Ed Gein Reveal And Release Date

Netflix just circled a date for its next Monster season, and it is a big one: Ryan Murphy is tackling Ed Gein. The streamer dropped the Season 3 release date along with the first posters, which put Sons of Anarchy alum Charlie Hunnam front and center as the infamous Wisconsin killer and lean hard into the horror lineage Gein helped spawn.

Release date

"Monster: The Ed Gein Story" hits Netflix on October 3, 2025. It is the latest entry in Murphy and Ian Brennan's true-crime anthology series.

The angle this time

The show zeroes in on Gein in the 1950s, out in rural Wisconsin: a quiet, isolated guy living on a decaying farm, hiding a house of horrors and an obsession with his mother that fueled his crimes. Expect the series to draw a straight line from the real case to the movie boogeymen it influenced — think Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill.

"Ed Gein didn't just influence a genre - he became the blueprint for modern horror."

The posters are not subtle (by design)

Netflix also unveiled the first Season 3 posters, with Hunnam as Gein and visual nods to "Psycho," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre." Inside baseball alert: that is the point — those classics were themselves inspired by Gein, and the marketing is unapologetically winking at that history.

Cast

It is a stacked ensemble, and there is some fun meta-casting baked in (yes, those are the real Hollywood figures tied to the movies Gein influenced):

• Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein
• Suzanna Son as Adeline Watkins
• Tom Hollander as Alfred Hitchcock
• Laurie Metcalf as Augusta Gein
• Vicky Krieps as Ilse Koch
• Olivia Williams as Alma Reville
• Joey Pollari as Anthony Perkins
• Tyler Jacob Moore as Sheriff Schley
• Charlie Hall as Deputy Worden
• Will Brill as Tobe Hooper
• Mimi Kennedy as Dr. Mildred Newman
• Robin Weigert as Enid Watkins
• Lesley Manville as Bernice Worden

Who is steering the season

Ryan Murphy and longtime collaborator Ian Brennan co-created the season, serve as executive producers, and co-wrote it. So if you watched the previous Monster seasons, you know the tone you are in for.

And already lining up Season 4

Before this one even lands, Netflix has a fourth Monster installment in the works. That season will focus on the Lizzie Borden axe murders.