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The Netflix true crime phenomenon will continue until morale improves. But since that likely won’t happen anytime soon, the streamer will keep on giving the greenlight to documentaries and other dramatized accounts based on some of the most fiendish serial killers in American history. One of the streamer’s biggest true crime hits is the Emmy Award-winning horror-drama series “Monster” from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. After its controversial first entry “Dahmer” made a huge splash on the service back in 2022,<\/a> it was only inevitable that the Murphy industrial complex would rear its terrible head again by tackling the Lyle and Erik Menendez case for its second season. Now, we come to the third installment “Monster: The Ed Gein Story,” which stars “Sons of Anarchy” veteran Charlie Hunnam as the titular serial killer whose gruesome murders shocked the nation.<\/p>\n Gein’s story served as the inspiration for horror classics like Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” Tobe Hooper’s “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” and Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs.” Those films have largely served as his screen legacy to date, barring some documentaries here and there. But arising out of the ashes came Murphy and Brennan to present Gein in the guise of Hunnam looking surprisingly attractive<\/a>. With Lizzie Borden set to get the “Monster” treatment next, there’s an innate curiosity about who’s going to end up being the focus down the line. However, one name you can expect to never<\/em> see get a season of their own is the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. “When you look at those crimes […] What are the themes there? It doesn’t ask you any questions about society,” Murphy explained in an interview with Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n