My Friend Dahmer
The origins of Jeffrey Dahmer as a serial killer are explored in this teen movie based on the recollections of a high school classmate.
"Before Jeffrey Dahmer became one of the most notorious serial killers of all time, he was a teenage loner. Conducting grisly experiments in a makeshift backyard lab, Jeff was invisible to most. That is until his increasingly bizarre behavior unexpectedly attracted friends. Based on the cult graphic novel, My Friend Dahmer chronicles the origins of the man. The monster. The high school senior." (Tribeca Film Festival)
2017Rating: M, Mature themes, sexual references and coarse language107 minsUSA
CrimeDramaHorrorThrillerTrue Story & Biography
- Director:
- Marc Meyers ('How He Fell in Love', 'Harvest', 'Approaching Union Square')
- Writer:
- Marc Meyers
- Cast:
- Ross LynchAnne HecheVincent KartheiserAlex WolffDallas RobertsMiles RobbinsCameron McKendryHarrison Holzer
My Friend Dahmer / Reviews
Variety
It sees Jeffrey Dahmer for what he was: a young man who could express himself only through the most hideous violence. Yet it shows you that what he had to express was real.
Full reviewTime Out
Writer-director Marc Meyers turns Backderf's celebrated book into an absorbing, dramatised portrait of casual cruelty and teenage desperation, equal parts The Virgin Suicides and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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The New York Times
This film is sensitively wrought. It's credible in its evocation of mid-'70s suburbia. The acting is excellent throughout, and Ross Lynch in the role of Dahmer elicits genuine sympathy for an increasingly lost but not yet monstrous soul.
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Rolling Stone
A warped wonder of a movie about a cannibalistic serial killer's awkward teenage years-it takes twisted to areas few have investigated.
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Los Angeles Times
The world may never tire of being fascinated with serial killers, but "My Friend Dahmer" avoids exploitation often enough to forge its own perceptive, tense, character-driven path.
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Hollywood Reporter
My Friend Dahmer is one of the most disturbing coming-of-age features in memory. But it's also exceptionally moving.
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