Los Angeles, Aug. 28 -- Charlie Hunnam steps into the skin-crawling role of Ed Gein in the forthcoming third season of "Monster", the acclaimed anthology by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.
Subtitled "The Ed Gein Story", the series will debut globally on October 3, with all episodes dropping simultaneously, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
Promoted by the streamer as its "most harrowing season yet", the series delves into the unsettling duality of Gein's existence, an ostensibly mild-mannered recluse who concealed a grotesque obsession within the decaying confines of his family farm.
His macabre legacy later led to the creation of some of Hollywood's most enduring fictional villains, from Norman Bates in "Psycho" to Leatherface in "The Texas ...