If fake epileptic convulsions means popularity, then so be it.įormer Disney star Ross Lynch brings a perfect blend of desperation and dread to the complicated lead. Either bullied (nasty) or ignored (worse), Dahmer gains a strange semblance of attention by spazzing out in school. We know there is an explosion coming, but we just don’t know how or when.īased on a graphic novel by a high school chum, “My Friend Dahmer” focuses on the usual tribulations of teenagers searching to belong. Collecting and dissolving road kill in his makeshift shed lab, is certainly cause for concern, but it is Dahmer’s awkward interactions with his peers, family, and authority figures, that bring the shivers. Of course we all know how this plays out, and that ominous shadow creates a vicious tension throughout this excellently unsettling film. Jeffery Dahmer is a mopey, four-eyed moptop, shuffling through adolescence, dealing with a fractious household in the bland and brown seventies. I repeat, this is not a comedy.Īlso of note for the squeamish set: no serial killing here, just the seemingly mundane life of a high school misfit. R for disturbing images, language, teen drug use, drinking and sexual content, and for brief nudity
R | 1h 47min | Biography, Drama, Horror | 21 April 2017 (USA)Ī young Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to belong in high school.
