![]() Infected with an insatiable lust for the kill, Dahmer took his first life at age eighteen when he picked up a hitchhiker off the side of the road, brought him back to his parents’ house for sex, drugged the man, beat him to death, woke up, and remembered nothing. Eventually caught in 1991 and sentenced to fifteen consecutive life sentences (937 years) in federal prison, Dahmer is responsible for the murder of at least seventeen young men, most of whom were African American, and some of whom had their remains mutilated, eaten, or both. Most people are at least vaguely aware of who Jeffrey Dahmer is. Ross Lynch, a well-known Disney heartthrob, portrays Dahmer, adding an air of controversy to an already suspect film premise, which will supposedly be quite sympathetic to the serial murderer. ![]() “Derf”, a famous cartoonist who went to high school with Dahmer, My Friend Dahmer details the teenage years of the notorious serial killer, all leading up to his first murder which occurred two weeks after his high school graduation. ![]() That’s what director Marc Meyers hopes to explore in his new film, and it will be exciting to see the result of his efforts – especially since he’s so committed to authenticity that he’s willing to shoot scenes in the real life old Dahmer home, and hire a Disney star to elicit the empathy needed to relate to someone so innately sinister.īased on the graphic novel by John Backderf, a.k.a. The majority of Americans are familiar with Dahmer’s murderous tendencies as a fully grown adult, but what about the period of his life that led to that point? What about the ignored little boy who grew to be so desperate for attention that he resorted to killing and containing cadavers in his very own home, just so he could get some people to spend some time with him? There’s been a few noteworthy horror films that outwardly brought Dahmer’s infamous existence to the big screen, such as Dahmer (2002), Jeffrey Dahmer: The Secret Life (1993), The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012), as well as some not-so-obvious inspirations, such as The Voices (2014) and Silence of the Lambs (1991), but what’s so intriguing about the upcoming My Friend Dahmeris the particular moment in time that it chooses to focus on Dahmer’s life – his adolescence. This is the photo of the first official image for the upcoming 2017 Tribeca Film Festival pick My Friend Dahmer, and it is as haunting as it is effective. Shoving himself in where he didn’t belong, acting out, screaming for help, only to have his many cries for attention fall on deaf ears. He holds an empty gaze the numb subdued look of an apathetic boy who’s used to having his face blacked out in the school yearbook. A young blonde shaggy-haired Jeffrey Dahmer stares out blankly from behind the cover of large thick glasses and a plethora of other children.
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