TO a week after the third season dedicated to Ed Gein arrived on Netflix, filming began of the fourth season of Monster 4. A season which, surprisingly, puts a female serial killer at the center for the first time: Lizzie Borden, accused in 1892 of the murder of her parents.
Monster 4the Netflix series will be made, cast and serial killer
Ella Beatty was chosen to play Borden, young actress daughter of Annette Bening and Warren Beatty appeared in the series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (He’s now in theaters with a part in the film If I Had Legs I’d Kick You). Alongside her, in true Ryan Murphy style, co-creator of the show, several faces present in past seasons. For example Charlie Hunnam, interpreter of Ed Gein, who will return as Andrew Borden, Lizzie’s father. While Vicky Krieps (there show Ilse Koch in Monster 3) will be the family’s maid.
Rebecca Hall (The Prestige, Vicky Christina Barcelona) will instead play the role of Lizzie’s stepmother; Jessica Barden (The End of the F***ing World) will play her friend Nance O’Neill. Another welcome return is that of Billie Lourd: Carrie Fisher’s daughter, who participated in several seasons of American Horror Story, in Monster 4 she will be Lizzie’s older sister. Max Winkler (director of all episodes of Monster: The Ed Gein Story) will direct the first episode of the new season of the series, created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.
Ella Beatty and Charlie Hunnam in the cast of “Monster 4”. (Ryan Murphy Productions)
The true story of Lizzie Borden, who was the serial killer
Lizzie was born in 1860 in a small town in Massachusetts. His father Andrew was a very rich man, owner of banks, land and farms, and, at the same time, very thrifty: their house had no bathroom or running water, considered unnecessary expenses. At the time of the events, Lizzie’s mother had been missing for some time: Lizzie and her sister Emma live with their stepmother Abby, who they resented.. The tense domestic climate worsens when the father, so stingy with the family, gives a house to his wife’s sister.
Elizabeth Montgomery plays Lizzie Borden in the 1975 film “The Legend of Lizzie Borden” (Getty)
On August 4, 1982, Emma is on holiday with distant relatives: Lizzie, her stepmother and her father remain at home. Suddenly, the maid discovers the latter’s body dead and lying on the sofa. Inspecting the house, Abby’s is also found, both torn apart by numerous and violent ax blows to the head. Lizzie she is immediately accused of the crime; in the trial, despite the clear evidence against him (including the discovery of the weapon in the house), she is incredibly acquitted. In fact, his lawyer manages to convince the jury that the violence and brutality of the murder (18 shots for the man and 13 for the woman) exclude the possibility that the person responsible could have been a woman.
Having cashed in on her father’s rich inheritance, Lizzie became very rich and died in 1927. Subsequently, his fame and his crimes remain imprinted in the collective memory and imagination, also as a source for various films and television programs, to which the new season of Monster.