Ryan Murphy’s “Monster” series has just announced that the third chapter will see Charlie Hunnam play serial killer Ed Gein, who inspired the character Buffalo Bill in “The Silence of the Lambs.”
A macabre inspiration. After Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers, Ryan Murphy’s anthology, “Monster”, has chosen to dedicate its third season to serial killer Ed Gein, whose murders in the 1950s served as inspiration for the horror film “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, and the character Buffalo Bill in “The Silence of the Lambs”, announces the American website Variety. Actor Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) will play the lead role.
Ed Gein was a reclusive farmer living on a remote Wisconsin farm. He would become the prime suspect in the murders of two women—one in 1953 and the other in 1957—after being identified by witnesses following a third disturbing disappearance. When the sheriff went to his home on November 17, 1957, he discovered the carcass of the last victim hanging from the ceiling.
Bodies unearthed
The dismembered bodies of the other two women were found on the farm, as well as the heads of ten other women, whose bodies he had dug up shortly after their burial. A chair made of human skin, noses, female organs, among other horrors, were recovered at the scene. He was declared insane at his trial.
A huge success with a first season centered on Jeffrey Dahmer, “Monster” returns this Thursday on Netflix with a season 2 that will tell the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez, two brothers convicted in 1996 for the murder of their parents, committed seven years earlier. During a sensational trial, they will recount the abuse they suffered – including the multiple rapes by their father – and plead self-defense. The verdict rendered by the jury will however result in their sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. They are still incarcerated in a prison in southern California.
