“I actually got that costume here,” she said, “they do princess makeovers in that giant tent at the end of the field.” “I’m glad you showed up,” she said, “remember when you bullied me for posting a selfie of me dressed up as a princess on Instagram?” We teased and bullied each other a lot when we I turned around and saw it was Darcey, a girl who I used to fight with a lot. I decided to stay for a bit just in case one of them came late and to look at all the stalls. It was on once a year and I always came to see how my school was doing and to see my old friends but this year none of my friends had shown up. I was walking around my old primary school’s summer fete. I wrote this story over 2 years ago so when part two is released, it will be much better than this. My Friend Dahmer ends with a reminder of his 17 victims.ĭid you know? The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2014 Blacklist, a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year.Before the story begins, I would like to say something. I also wonder how the True Crime Community (why does Tumblr have to ruin everything?) will react to goofy teenage Dahmer. It’s hard to reconcile Ross Lynch crying on the floor of his empty family home with the real Dahmer interviews. Marc Meyers has created a cautionary tale that does not excuse Jeffrey Dahmer, but it does try to understand him. With so many angry young men going on to commit murder in America, the film feels more haunting and relevant than ever.
As he lurches around his school drinking more and more alcohol, you can’t believe nobody helped him. He obsesses over a local doctor, his sexuality becoming warped as he daydreams of lying next to his corpse. Any warmth or happiness he feels is short-lived – it’s clear that Derf and the gang are never really his friends. Seeing Dahmer start nosediving irretrievably into a monster is a sad, frustrating experience. As Dahmer asks his roommate “Are your insides the same as my insides?”, we know it can’t end well. They sneak him into school photos, meet the vice-president with him, and watch in horror as he savagely mutilates a fish. “I think he’s kind of hilarious”, muses Derf, and for a while Jeffrey Dahmer seems to belong somewhere. Derf, played unsympathetically by Alex Wolff, starts a Dahmer fan club and he becomes a weird mascot to their friendship group. He gains sideshow freak fame for “doing a Dahmer” – pretending to have epilepsy or cerebral palsy in public places, which his classmates find funny. Perhaps spurred on by his well-meaning father to come out of his shell, Dahmer becomes an unlikely class clown. His unstable mother says, “We eat our mistakes” in blissful ignorance. His parents’ marriage is dissolving too, leaving him a festering breeding ground for issues. Inside his hut in the woods, he reveals a dead cat and tells a group of kids “I’m going to dissolve it” like it’s the most natural thing in the word. We’re introduced to Dahmer as an outcast – a dead-eyed loner with a morbid fascination with bones and corpses.
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He doesn’t wave a big sign saying “I’m going to grow up to be a serial killer”, but alarm bells are ringing. Dahmer is strange to say the least played convincingly by a shuffling, awkward Ross Lynch. Seeing his last year at high school, you try to piece together where it all went so wrong. It feels eerie and uncomfortable, despite having the look of a quirky indie film at times.
The uncut hair and politically incorrect humour of the 1970s is spot on, and some scenes were shot in Dahmer’s actual childhood home. You hate feeling sorry for him.īased on “Derf” Backderf’s graphic novel – who was a friend of Dahmer at high school – the film strives to be authentic. Not yet a murderer, Jeff is still just a messed up kid trying to survive high school. Although you never forget this, the most disturbing thing about Marc Meyers’ film is how it humanises Dahmer. Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 young men and did horrifying things with their bodies. My Friend Dahmer is a difficult watch and I still don’t know entirely how I feel about it. Starring: Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche
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