Review: Charlie Hunman crushes this character! You’ll be in streaming shock. Every episode is more disturbing than the next. It’s uncomfortable to watch Eddie Gein‘s story, but Charlie handles the character with care, allowing viewers to see the psychological pain and isolation Gein endured.
*Sunday scaries hit different in October!
And Netflix knows it!
The streamer dropped “Monster: The Ed Gein Story,” starring Charlie Hunnam as the isolated psycho killer. We sat down with the actor and talked about the effects of playing a polarizing person.
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Q: How has play Eddie Gein changed you as an actor?
CH: It’s changed me enormously. I was desperate to really challenge myself and do something to rise to the level of my ambition. I thought this was an amazing opportunity to utilize everything I know and require me to learn a bunch of things I didn’t know. I was terrified. I thought it was impossible as I started this journey, and I realized that’s exactly where I need to be in the start of every job now. If I read a script and say, ‘I know exactly what to do with this.’ It’s going out the window. I want to feel terrified and that there’s no chance I can possibly pull this off. I know that’s the good starting point.
Synopsis
Serial killer. Grave robber. Psycho. In the frozen fields of 1950s rural Wisconsin, a friendly, mild-mannered recluse named Eddie Gein lived quietly on a decaying farm – hiding a house of horrors so gruesome it would redefine the American nightmare. 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. 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. Gein didn’t just influence a genre — he became the blueprint for modern horror.
Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s anthology series returns with its third, most harrowing installment yet. Monster: The Ed Gein Story tells the story of how one simple man in Plainfield, Wisconsin became history’s most singular ghoul. He revealed to the world the most horrific truth of all — that monsters aren’t born, they’re made…by us.
Monster: The Ed Gein Story is streaming on Netflix.
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