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'Monster' Season 4 Starts Filming With Charlie Hunnam, Ella Beatty
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‘Monster’ Season 4 Starts Filming With Charlie Hunnam, Ella Beatty

by jummy84
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No rest for the wicked, or Charlie Hunnam when it comes to Monster.

With the third season of Monster: The Ed Gein Story currently streaming atop the Netflix charts, season four of the true-crime anthology from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan has gone into production in Los Angeles.

The fourth season of the Emmy-winning Netflix hit stars season three star Hunnam along with Ella Beatty (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) and will tell the story of the series’ first female “monster” Lizzie Borden, who will be played by Beatty.

Borden was famously tried and acquitted of the 1892 ax murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. Her murder trial has been the subject of many retellings on film and TV, including the 1975 TV movie The Legend of Lizzie Borden, Lifetime’s 2014 Lizzie Borden Took an Ax and 2018’s Lizzie starring Chloë Sevigny and Kristen Stewart.

Hunnam will play Andrew Borden, with Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread, Corsage) as Bridget Sullivan, Rebecca Hall (Christine, Passing) as Abby Borden, Billie Lourd (American Horror Story, The Last Showgirl) as Emma Borden and Jessica Barden (The End of the F***ing World, Dune: Prophecy) as Nance O’Neill. 

Max Winkler (Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Flower) will direct the first episode. Additional casting and production details will be revealed at a later date. 

Monster: The Ed Gein Story released all episodes on Oct. 3 and quickly broke into Netflix’s Top 10 with 12.2 million views globally in its first three days.

The third season centers on Ed Gein, a murderer known to kill women, wear their skin and faces, and dig up graves. The Ed Gein season follows previous seasons, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Each of those seasons sparked conversations around sensational portrayals of murder victims, and Ed Gein has also been stirring up some debate.

Before the show released, Hunnam told The Hollywood Reporter, “I never felt like we were sensationalizing it. I never felt on set that we did anything gratuitous or for shock impact. It was all in order to try to tell this story as honestly as we could. … What I would hope and feel really confident in is that it was a very sincere exploration of the human condition and why this boy did what he did.”

The fourth installment of Monster is the latest addition to a growing list of Netflix shows and movies being filmed in Los Angeles, including Monster: The Ed Gein Story, as well as upcoming Nobody Wants This season two, Beef season two, Lincoln Lawyer season four, Nemesis, Worst Ex Ever season two, and films The Rip and Animals. 

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How Charlie Hunnam Transformed as Ed Gein, Sarah Paulson’s Advice
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How Charlie Hunnam Transformed as Ed Gein, Sarah Paulson’s Advice

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[This story contains some spoilers from Monster: The Ed Gein Story.]

It’s fall, so that means another season of Monster from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan‘s anthology series is upon us, and this time, the horror series follows the life of the infamous serial killer of the 1950s, Ed Gein, who inspired classic horror films Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs.

For the show to land, everything falls on the performance of its title character, played by Charlie Hunnam. To step into the world of Ed, and try to understand him, the Sons of Anarchy star spent months researching the murderer to do his role justice and “not glamorize” the horrific things Ed is known for, such as murdering women, wearing their faces and digging up graves.

“I read every single book that had been written about him, and there was a lot of books. I read all of the court transcriptions, all of his medical records. And then I read the scripts over and over to understand what would drive a human being to do some of the pretty wild things he did — pretty despicable acts,” Hunnam told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this week at the series’ New York City premiere. “We were really very serious about trying to understand the man and not just sensationalize this, and certainly not glamorize it at all.”

While preparing for the role, he said he didn’t seek out advice from Evan Peters, who starred as Jeffrey Dahmer in the first season of Monster, because they had never crossed paths. Instead, he found help from another American Horror Story veteran.

“I’ve never met Evan Peters. I’m an enormous fan of his work. I would love to get to meet him, but I never had an opportunity to. I did bump into Sarah Paulson, who’s worked with Ryan Murphy a lot and tackled some pretty dark characters and she’s an old friend of mine from way back in the day,” Hunnam said. “So I asked her advice about navigating it and she was really kind and basically said, ‘Challenge yourself. Don’t be afraid. It’s inside you, just look deep and find it.’”

The series kicks off with viewers seeing Ed kill his brother Henry (Hudson Oz), but not realizing it until later because of his undiagnosed schizophrenia, where he imagines he’s talking to his brother — after he just murdered him. Once his mother, Augusta (Laurie Metcalf) finds out her son is dead, she has a stroke and later dies. All of this leads to becoming secluded in Plainfield, Wisconsin, where the murders ramp up. As Hunnam describes, “It’s really about mental health and the consequences of abuse and isolation.”

His dedication to portraying Ed was praised by co-star Suzanna Son, who plays Ed’s love interest in the show, the very morbidly curious Adeline Watkins. “What a gift to work alongside Charlie. He was in character, I would say 80 percent of the time, and that made my job all the easier because he’s building the world for me to live in,” she said.

Tyler Jacob Moore, who portrays the real-life Sheriff Schley who arrested Ed in 1957, added, “The first day was shocking. It never got easier to deal with him as Ed, because he was Ed when he was on set — the voice, his demeanor,” Moore told THR. “I was just genuinely shocked. Him being Ed in those moments was horrifying.”

Similarly, Brennan also told THR about how Hunnam brought “a deep sense of care” for the character. “From the very first time I sat down with him, I was like, ‘This guy is attacking it from the right angle.’ He was very much not interested in just playing a villain or a goul. He really wanted to find the person beneath all this illness,” Brennan said. “It’s just a spectacular performance. There’s a moment in episode seven, which was just one take, and it completely makes the whole show.” While it wasn’t clear what exact scene Brennan was referring to, there is a pivotal moment in episode seven where Ed is finally diagnosed with schizophrenia and gets medicated.

Brennan (co-creator of Glee, Scream Queens, Hollywood, The Watcher), who wrote all the episodes and co-directed it with Max Winkler, previously told THR in an interview published in August that this season of Monster was the one he was most impressed with creating. “It’s a really rich, very weird, extremely upsetting, very emotional, deeply funny season of television. I think it’s the most impressive season of television that I’ve ever been involved in,” he said.

All eight episodes of Monster: The Ed Gein Story are now streaming on Netflix.

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How Charlie Hunnam Transformed into a 'Monster': Daily Variety podcast
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How Charlie Hunnam Transformed into a ‘Monster’: Daily Variety podcast

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On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety senior correspondent Daniel D’Addario goes inside the mind of a man who is playing a serial killer, “Monster: The Ed Gein Story” star Charlie Hunnam, for our Cover Story segment.

Hunnam is frank and candid in his interview about his career decisions over the past decade, D’Addario reports. Hunnam explains what brought him back to the top of the call sheet in the latest season of the Netflix anthology series produced by Ryan Murphy.

And “Daily Variety” host Cynthia Littleton dives into the Variety archives to revisit a front page from October 1956 that is full of headlines that resonate today. That front page is reproduced below.

The front page of Daily Variety for Monday, Oct. 1, 1956

More to come

Listen to Daily Variety on iHeartPodcasts, Apple Podcasts, Variety’s YouTube Podcast channel, Amazon Music, Spotify and other podcast platforms.

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Charlie Hunnam Is Nightmarish in Full Trailer
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Charlie Hunnam Is Nightmarish in Full Trailer

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Charlie Hunnam has fully transformed into a monster in the full trailer for Monster: The Ed Gein Story.

Hunnam plays the haunting serial killer in the third season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan‘s Netflix horror anthology series, and the official and full trailer (below) lives up to the streamer hyping this season as the most harrowing yet in the Monster franchise. All episodes release Oct. 3.

Gein’s horrific legacy inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs, becoming the “blueprint for modern horror.” The first footage had explored Gein’s house-of-horrors home being investigated by police who were so disturbed, they could barely go through what they found, and ended with a haunting conversation between Gein and his mother, who is played by Laurie Metcalf.

The official trailer now exposes Gein’s nightmarish proclivities, as he is seen committing several murders and literally trying on (and dancing around in) the skins of his victims. Hunnam also reveals the mannerisms and voice he took on to play Gein, which he previously spoke about when discussing his research for the part.

Monster: The Ed Gein Story follows the first two Monster seasons, The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and the Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, respectively. Each cycle of the franchise tackles a different true-crime story, following the massive success of the series’ 2022 debut.

Gein is the serial murderer and body snatcher often referred to as “the Butcher of Plainfield” who gained notoriety in the 1950s for his crimes. The logline explains that “driven by isolation, psychosis and an all-consuming obsession with his mother, Gein’s perverse crimes birthed a new kind of monster that would haunt Hollywood for decades.”

The cast for Monster: The Ed Gein Story also includes Tom Hollander (as Alfred Hitchcock) and Suzanna Son, with Vicky Krieps, Olivia Williams, Lesley Manville, Joey Pollari, Charlie Hall, Tyler Jacob Moore, Mimi Kennedy, Will Brill and Robin Weigert.

Executive producers include co-creators Murphy and Brennan, along with Max Winkler, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Louise Shore, Carl Franklin and Hunnam. Brennan and Max Winkler are directors on the series.

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Scary Full Trailer for 'Monster: The Ed Gein Story' with Charlie Hunnam
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Scary Full Trailer for ‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ with Charlie Hunnam

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Scary Full Trailer for ‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ with Charlie Hunnam

by Alex Billington
September 15, 2025
Source: YouTube

“You’re the one who can’t look away…” Netflix has revealed the full official trailer for the scary new horror series titled Monster: The Ed Gein Story, the third season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s ongoing “Monster” series for Netflix. This time they’re focusing on the infamous, iconic serial killer known as Ed Gein, the basis for Hitchcock’s Psycho and Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre (and many other horror stories). This is a fictionalized version of his real story, embellished to make into a Netflix series, not a true crime doc – starring Charlie Hunnam as Eddie Gein. Hunnam adds: “This is going to be the really human, tender, unflinching, no-holds-barred exploration of who Ed was and what he did. But who he was being at the center of it, rather than what he did.” Murphy adds: “The thesis of every season is: are monsters born or are they made? I think in Ed’s case, it’s probably a little of both.” Monster: The Ed Gein Story tells the story of how one simple man in Plainfield, WI became history’s most singular ghoul. He revealed to the world the most horrific truth of all: monsters aren’t born, they’re made… by us. Also stars Tom Hollander, Laurie Metcalf, & Suzanna Son. Plus: Vicky Krieps, Olivia Williams, Lesley Manville, Joey Pollari, Charlie Hall, Tyler Jacob Moore, Mimi Kennedy, Will Brill, Robin Weigert. This looks freaky! Hunnam looks quite scary…

Here’s the two trailers (+ posters) for Netflix’s horror series Monster: The Ed Gein Story, via YouTube:

Monster: The Ed Gein Story Poster

Monster: The Ed Gein Story Poster

“You’re the one that can’t look away.” Serial killer. Grave robber. Psycho. In the frozen fields of 50s rural Wisconsin, a friendly, mild-mannered recluse named Eddie Gein (starring Charlie Hunnam) lived quietly on a decaying farm – hiding a house of horrors so gruesome it would redefine the American nightmare. Driven by isolation, psychosis & an all-consuming obsession with his mother, Ed’s perverse crimes birthed a new kind of monster that would haunt Hollywood for decades. From Psycho to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to The Silence of the Lambs, Gein’s macabre legacy gave birth to fictional monsters born in his image and ignited a cultural obsession with the criminally deviant. Ed Gein didn’t just influence a genre — he became the blueprint for modern horror. Monster: The Ed Gein Story (and the on-going “Monster” series) is created by storytellers Ryan Murphy & Ian Brennan (“Glee”, “Scream Queens”, “Hollywood”, “The Politician”, “Ratched”, “The Watcher”). With episodes written and directed by Ian Brennan; and other episodes directed by filmmaker Max Winkler. Exec produced by Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, Max Winkler, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Nissa Diederich, Louise Shore, Carl Franklin, Charlie Hunnam. Netflix will debut Monster: The Ed Gein Story series streaming on Netflix starting on October 3rd, 2025 coming up.

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