Ryan Murphy, the creative mind behindAmerican Horror Story, has revealed the release date for the upcoming season 3 ofNetflix’s true-crime series,Monster. As well as teasing some intriguing insights into the serial killer Ed Gein, who will be played by Charlie Hunnam, Murphy has also warned fans that they may need a hard stomach this time around.
Season 2 ofMonsterchronicled the case of the real-life brothers Lyle and Erik, who were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise Menendez. However, it was season one ofMonsterthat really caught fans' attention in 2022 as the series shone a huge spotlight on the disturbing story of Jeffrey Dahmer, which starred Evan Peters as the sadistic serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.The record-breaking first season of Murphy and Ian Brennan’s anthology reached 1 billion hours of viewing in its first 60 days, making it the third most popular Netflix English language series at the time. Now that season 3 has a release date and Murphy’s early warning of presumably gory and bloody scenes, this season ofMonstercould be its most shocking and captivating yet.
Ryan Murphy’s Monster Season 3 Gets a 2025 Release Date
According toWhat’s On Netflix, in a recent interview on the podcast, This is Gavin Newsom,Ryan Murphy explained that the upcomingMonsterseason 3 will release in October 2025 but warned that it’s “not for the squeamish.”Murphy also went on to say that he was shocked at how successful season 1 ofMonsterwas, which earned the prestigious Golden Globe forEvan Peters, who played Jeffrey Dahmer: “I realized what was the thing that made Dahmer so popular: It was scary. It was your secret about the guy next door who’s doing dastardly things. Menendez, I always thought was smaller because it was a Rashomon story whodunit, like not who done it, but why they do it. I was very surprised it became such a lightning rod literally within a day.”
Murphy also gave a little insight intoEd Gein that some true-crime fans may not have known before going into season 3, and one of the main reasons why he wanted to tell this particular story about “The Butcher of Plainfield”. “But really, what it is about is, this was a person who was mentally ill, who was an undiagnosed person diagnosed with schizophrenia spectrum disorder his entire life. Not until it was too late, when he was in prison, I believe in his 50s, was he diagnosed,” Murphy continues. “So it really is sort of a story about mental health and awareness. That’s what I love about telling those sorts of stories. I’m not in it for the blood. I’m not in it for the gore. I’m in it for: What is it? Was he made or was he born that way? I think that story of Ed Gein is both. He was born that way and made that way.”
Ed Gein’s horrendous crimes ended up inspiring many popular films and TV shows over the years, and it’s understandable to see why, as they easily promote fear and unease in viewers, something that many avid crime and horror fans crave in their media. FromPsychoandThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre,toThe Silence of the Lambs,Ed Gein’s lampshade made of human flesh and house of unspeakable horrors has influenced many movies over the years. As forseason 4 ofMonster, fans already know what story the series will adapt next, as the Lizzie Borden murders will see the series going further back in history than ever before.
