Long time readers of this site know that literally in its beginning Lizzie Borden was used as an onsite moniker, because I have a bit of a fascination with old girl. So, the fourth installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s anthology series Monster will make Borden is the subject which will have my full attention. The first trailer of Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is here – grab your ax and enjoy.

When the repressed daughter of a wealthy New England family and her rebellious maid find themselves trapped in a house built on humiliation and cruelty, they escape into a fantasy of sex, power, and revenge. The gruesome unsolved murders that follow don’t just shock the world — they give birth to an icon who refuses to live imprisoned in a cage, choosing instead to forge her own legend: shocking, monstrous, and gloriously free.

The cast of Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story includes: Ella Beatty (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) as Lizzie Borden. Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread, Monster: The Ed Gein Story) as Bridget Sullivan, the Bordens’ live-in maid. Charlie Hunnam (Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Sons of Anarchy) as Andrew Borden, Lizzie’s father. Rebecca Hall (Christine, Passing) as Abby Borden, Lizzie’s stepmother. Billie Lourd (American Horror Story, The Last Showgirl) as Emma, Lizzie’s older sister. Jessica Barden (The End of the F***ing World, Dune: Prophecy) as Nance O’Neil, an actor friend of Lizzie’s.

The previous seasons of Monster were DAHMER — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story focuses on Jeffrey Dahmer (Evan Peters), the second installment, Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story, centers on the case of the real-life brothers (played by Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez, respectively) who were convicted in 1996 for the murders of their parents. The third installment, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, follows the story of Ed Gein, the “Plainfield Ghoul” whose story inspired Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, and more.

I have enjoyed most of these seasons except the Ed Gein Story, let’s just say the liberties Murphy took were beyond unnecessary in his attempts to make Gein (like he always does btw) a misunderstood sexually repressed by the pesky women folk hot boy. Gein’s female victims played no part in him being a psycho, but in the series the characters are written to give him a reason for their murders. There is no sympathy due to Ed Gein. Full stop.

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story arrives on Netflix on Sept. 17.