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- Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. According to Deadline, the latest dramatization of Dahmer’s life became Netflix’s second-biggest series of all time within three weeks of its release.
- Conversations With A Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes. If you prefer to learn about Dahmer in a documentary, the latest Conversations with a Killer installment may be worth watching.
- Jeffrey Dahmer: Mind Of A Monster. Another recent documentary, Jeffrey Dahmer: Mind of a Monster, approaches the serial killer’s history starting with his childhood — and even includes an interview with his father, Lionel.
- My Friend Dahmer. This 2017 adaptation of a graphic novel by John Backderf, who attended high school with the serial killer, focuses on Dahmer's high school years.
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- My Friend Dahmer (2017) First up on this list, we have My Friend Dahmer. Released in 2017 and based on the graphic novel of the same name, the film stars Ross Lynch as Jeffrey Dahmer, and follows the story of John “Derf” Backderf, a friend of Dahmer until the serial killer began killing in 1978, and now, he tells his story about his time as a friend of the murderer and what he was like in high school.
- Dahmer (2002) Released in 2002 and starring Jeremy Renner, Dahmer is another film that tells the story of Jeffrey Dahmer, going into the crimes that he commited and the reasons as to why, and how after everything, it all came crashing down when one of the men he tried to kill escapes.
- Fresh Meat: Jeffrey Dahmer (2021) If you were looking for a documentary to watch, you have to check out Fresh Meat: Jeffrey Dahmer. An original TV movie from Tubi, this documentary tries to get into the mind of Jeffrey Dahmer and show the reasons behind his gruesome nature, and the reasons as to why he turned to cannibalism.
- The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012) Next up, we have a film called The Jeffrey Dahmer Files. This is an independent documentary that features a fictionalized retelling of the story of Dahmer during the summer of his arrest, but also features interviews from both his next-door neighbor, the medical examiner and many more that detail into the discoveries of his murders.
- In Dahmer’s Own Words
- Witness Testimony Spotlights Dahmer’s Inhumanity
- The Documentary Doesn’T Cut Deep Enough For True Revelations
- A Banal Portrait of Banal Evil
Like the Bundy tapes, the draw here is the audio of Dahmer’s interviews with his attorney, giving the audience never-before-heard firsthand accounts of Dahmer’s crimes in his own voice. Our surrogate into this tale is Dahmer’s untested young defense attorney Wendy Patrickus, who at one point compares her situation to that of Clarice Starling in The...
To the documentary’s credit, a true effort is made to center on the stories of Dahmer’s victims, and the deeper social and cultural context of his murders. Most of his 17 victims were young gay men of color within the Milwaukee nightlife scene. Michael Ross, an older gay black man who was acquainted with a few of Dahmer’s victims, provides insight ...
After one particularly compelling victim anecdote, Berlinger zips us back into Dahmer’s childhood, where his school friend, Eric Tyson, describes his young classmate’s infatuation with dead animals and skulls. Dahmer corroborates this information in his own words, saying how he liked to cut them up and examine their insides, almost as another man w...
Despite Berlinger’s best attempts, it is hard for anyone to really care what happened to Dahmer. Dahmer himself admitted that he probably deserved to die, that his illness was irreversible and he didn’t know how to get better. His only remorse was his lack of remorse. The killings and implications of the killings were ultimately more fascinating th...
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Oct 6, 2022 · The three-part "Conversations With a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes" tells the story of Dahmer's arrest and confession to a horrifying string of crimes, including murder, necrophilia and ...
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Dahmer was a serial killer who convicted of murdering 15 boys and men in the Milwaukee area between 1978 and 1991, many of whom were people of color, and confessed to murdering two more men.
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Nov 8, 2022 · Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: as heartbreaking as it is chilling. Foregrounding the humanity of all concerned parties, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s complex, discomfiting 10-part miniseries examines the shaping of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and the responses of his victims’ loved ones.
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Oct 7, 2022 · Thirty years after Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in 1991 and charged with killing 17 men and teenage boys over a 13-year span, two of the victims’ friends are speaking out in the Netflix ...
