The first trailer for Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story revealed

Netflix has finally released a terrifying teaser trailer for Monster: The Ed Gein Story, starring Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein--one of the most horrific killers of the 1950s. Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan take on the story of the Wisconsin grave-robbing serial killer whose house of horrors continues to define nightmares.

The teaser trailer for the third addition to the anthology series from Murphy and Brennan captures the police investigation team discovering the horror hidden inside Ed Gein's home.

Netflix offers a horrifying look inside Ed Gein's home in the teaser for Monster: The Ed Gein Story

Monster: The Ed Gein Story takes its leaves of inspiration from the multitude of horror movies that were inspired by Ed Gein's story. From Hitchcock's Psycho to The Silence of the Lambs, the grave robber left behind a horrific legacy on Hollywood and the multitude of serial killers that came after him.

Monster: The Ed Gein Story will not just tell Gein's tale and the horrifying mother-son relationship through Charlie Hunnam's Gein; it will also head over to the horrifying characters it inspired in Hollywood for filmmakers such as Hitchcock, Tobe Hooper, and Jonathan Demme.

The teaser begins with Tom Hollander as Alfred Hitchcock narrating over a montage of the police inspecting Gein's house of horrors:

"What shocks you most about him? How did he do it? What was his childhood like? Now I'd like to show you something worse."

As the police inspect his home and the desecrated body parts, the teaser then moves into the montage of Charlie Hunnam, which inspired the key art for the series, and then teases the horrifying and thorny mother-son relationship, which we know from Psycho, as Gein's mother (played by Laurie Metcalf) tells him:

"You're working too fast..Just go slow and steady, take your time sweet boy"

The teaser comes to a bone-chilling end as Hunnam's Gein puts on a mask, made out of real human skin, on his face.

According to creators Murphy and Brennan, despite being one of the most influential serial killers of the 20th century, not much is known about Ed Gein himself. Rather, there's a lot of information about the characters and people he inspired. Monster: The Ed Gein Story aims at another season of trying to answer the question of whether monsters are born or they're made. According to Hunnam:

"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."

Hunnam reveals that even though there was a lot of research available when he was trying to dive deep into his role of Ed Gein, most of it was useless to him as bleak, grotesque pieces of writing that told him nothing about the man behind the mask. He then reveals going back to the only known recording of Gein, recorded two days before his arrest, to tap into Gein's energy, his musicality, and his inflection.

Monster: The Ed Gein Story is set to premiere on Netflix on October 3.

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