Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, the second season of Ryan Murphy’s true crime anthology series, may be premiering Thursday, but Murphy has already made a major announcement for the third season.
Yesterday Netflix held a special event for Monsters season two, showing its audience the premiere episode, and with the series’ cast on stage Murphy announced he has cast Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) to lead season three as Ed Gein, one of the most infamous serial killers to have ever been caught.
Gein was a serial killer who was active in the 1950s and known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul. He murdered two women and was suspected of many more, but the true reason for Gein’s infamy was for exhuming corpses and allegedly making household items and clothing out of the remains. Gein was the inspiration behind Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs.
Monster was created by Murphy and Ian Brennan. The first season premiered on Netflix in 2022 and starred Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer, while season 2 shifts the focus to Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted in 1996 of the murder of their parents. Watch the Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story trailer here.
Following the massive success of DAHMER, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s true-crime anthology series returns with Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, chronicling the case of the real-life brothers who were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez.
While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed – and remain adamant to this day, as they serve life sentences without the possibility of parole – that their actions stemmed out of fear from a lifetime of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of their parents.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story dives into the historic case that took the world by storm, paved the way for audiences’ modern-day fascination with true crime, and in return asks those audiences: Who are the real monsters?
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story stars Nicholas Alexander Chavez as Lyle Menendez, Cooper Koch as Erik Menendez, Javier Bardem as José Menendez, Chloë Sevigny as Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, Nathan Lane as Dominick Dunne, and Ari Graynor as Leslie Abramson.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story premieres September 19th on Netflix.
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