My Friend Dahmer is a film adaptation of the comic book styled novel of the same name, starring Ross Lynch as Jeffrey Dahmer and Alex Wolff as his high school friend, Derf. This movie is a true story told by Derf. He recounts the times he spent with Dahmer and how he acted throughout high school and before he killed seventeen people. The movie begins with Dahmer watching a jogger intensely through a bus window on his way home from school. When he gets home from school every day, he goes into his family's shed which he calls "the lab" and dissects animals, often putting roadkill in acid so he can burn off the skin and have only the bones remaining. Dahmer collects roadkill every night and does his regular routine. As he grows older, he starts trying to be "funny" by faking epileptic seizures in the hallway or acting like he is mentally disabled. For some odd reason, the kids at school think this is funny, and three boys become Dahmer's friends. They prompt Dahmer to perform more "pranks" which they end up calling "doing a Dahmer". His friends even start a Dahmer fan club. As even more time goes on, Dahmer's mental state worsens. He begins to have strong, murderous urges towards people and he starts drinking heavily and constantly to cope. Dahmer finally graduates high school towards the end of the movie. Dahmer lives all alone in his house at this point, becoming more and more psychotic every day. A few days before him and his friends leave for college, Dahmer is walking alone on the side of the road when his friend Derf pulls up next to him in a car. Derf drives Dahmer home, worried about Dahmer. Dahmer invites him inside for a beer, which Derf continually declines, but eventually goes inside anyway. He realizes that something isn't right, so he says he has to go because his mom would kill him if he was out for much longer. Derf quickly walks out to his car and tries to start it. The car won't start for a few moments, but when it does, Derf looks up and sees Dahmer outside the car with a baseball bat. Derf gets away, and that's the last he ever saw Dahmer. You can find out the ending of the movie by watching it yourself! This movie was very disturbing but also very interesting. It showed how the infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer grew up. I liked the movie, but I was truly, truly disturbed. You don't want to believe that this really happened in real life. I think to truly understand this movie, you have to do a little research on Jeffrey Dahmer first. It was an okay movie with okay acting. I would give this movie a 6/10.
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Tailor Pope
3/9/2018 06:36:41 am
I was actually wondering if this would be a good movie, it had a lot of hype when it came out and I agree that you would have to know the backstory of Jeffrey Dahmer to understand the movie.
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Daria Goptsii
3/11/2018 06:55:35 pm
Sounds like a good movie, now I want to find out the ending! I will add it to my "Movie Bucket List"
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Valerie
3/12/2018 06:10:59 am
I have watched this before! I honestly expected more from the movie. It was very intense and disturbing. I totally agree with your rating though. The acting was alright and I didn't like how it made the ending his first kill. I wanted to know what happened during and after he killed those people to understand what was wrong with him.
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Alayna Sizemore
3/16/2018 06:20:26 am
I wanted to watch this movie so much, but the way you describe it makes it sound not so good. :(
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