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Charlie Hunnam is terrifyingly unrecognisable in new Monster trailer

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Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam has never looked scarier as he does in the newest trailer for Netflix’s upcoming serial killer series Monster: The Ed Gein Story.

The new trailer, which you can watch below, gives us a deeper look at Charlie Hunnam’s awkward, social outcast Ed Gein and his mother. “Eddie you’re a mess,” says his mother,” only a mother could love you.” However, their relationship turns darker when Ed presents his naked body to his mother. When his mother dies, Gein can be seen touching her body inappropriately which leads to him wearing her skin.

MONSTER: The Ed Gein Story | Official Trailer | Netflix – YouTube

The rest of the clip, which includes the song ‘It’s a Sin’ by The Pet Shop Boys in the background, shows Gein preserving human skin, wearing other peoples faces, and abducting young women. The trailer also gives us our first look at Thanksgiving star and musician Addison Rae as one of Gein’s victims.

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The series is based on the real life serial killer Ed Gein, a grave robber who was later found to have murdered several women. The killer would exhume corpses from local graveyards and make clothing and keepsakes from skin and other body parts. Gein’s heinous acts went on to inspire such horror movie villains as Norman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs, and Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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I am an Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, covering TV and film for SFX and Total Film online. I have a Bachelors Degree in Media Production and Journalism and a Masters in Fashion Journalism from UAL. In the past I have written for local UK and US newspaper outlets such as the Portland Tribune and York Mix and worked in communications, before focusing on film and entertainment writing. I am a HUGE horror fan and in 2022 I created my very own single issue feminist horror magazine.

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