My Friend Dahmer

My Friend Dahmer

2017 · 107 min · EN · R · 6.5 (667 votes)
Dir. Marc Meyers · Starring Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche, Dallas Roberts, Liam Koeth, Nancy Telzerow · Music Andrew Hollander

“Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. This is the story before that story.”

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Jeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy. During his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he was to become.

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A deeply uncomfortable and awkward look at teenage isolation. It captures the cringey desperation of a social outcast, slowly revealing the unsettling path toward darkness. The 70s Ohio setting feels palpably mundane and bleak.

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