The first bone-chilling teaser-trailer for Netflix‘s “The Monster of Florence” from Italian genre specialist Stefano Sollima has been unveiled. In an exclusive with Variety, the streamer has released the first footage from the hotly-anticipated serial killer series, about a string of sex-related murders that took place outside Florence from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.
Sollima, known for the gritty TV hit “Gomorrah” and movies “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” and “Without Remorse,” spent more than a year researching the still unsolved case of “The Monster” (“Il Mostro,” in Italian), the moniker given to the alleged serial killer who committed eight double murders, preying on couples parked in cars in secluded places around Florence. “The Monster” always used the same weapon, a 22 caliber Beretta.
The cold case marks one of the longest investigations into the most brutal serial killings in Italian history.
“‘The Monster of Florence’ is not only an unsolved judicial case, but a mystery that marks our relationship with pain, fear and silence,” Sollima said in a statement to Variety. “The murdered couples, the horrors perpetrated on young women, never fully understood, are a wound that has remained open for too long. The story of a shadow, that has never disappeared.”
The four-episode limited series, which was shot largely on location, reunites Sollima with writer Leonardo Fasoli and ace Italian cinematographer Paolo Carnera, both of whom Sollima worked with on “Gomorrah” and cocaine trafficking drama “ZeroZeroZero.”
Netflix has set a still unspecified Fall 2025 global release date for “The Monster of Florence,” which was created by Fasoli and Sollima and produced by Fremantle-owned The Apartment and Sollima’s AlterEgo shingle. The show’s producers are Lorenzo Mieli, Sollima and Gina Gardini.
