Nov 01, 2017 my friend dahmer, from writerdirector marc meyers, is an eerie and effective portrait of serial killer and cannibal jeffrey dahmer in his beyondtroubled teen years, a quick hop into the mind of. Its a study of a very disturbed mind and what drove dahmer to his horrific deeds. Ross lynch, best known for the disney channel, which isnt a joke or an insult. Nov 03, 2017 all 34 songs from the my friend dahmer 2017 movie soundtrack, with scene descriptions. Although my friend dahmer does not resolve the impossible question of nature vs nurture, it approaches it with a humanity that is. Dec 17, 2017 my friend dahmer studiously avoids overt violence, but the suggestion that its imminent is always present.
My friend dahmer, a comingofage drama tracing the struggles of an adolescent jeffrey dahmer to fit in at his high school, is going to make some viewers uncomfortable. My friend dahmer is one of the most uncomfortable movie experiences ive had in a very long time i dont know if cringe horror is a term, but along with split and creep it seems like were witnessing the emergence of a burgeoning genre comprised of films centered around deeply flawed, awkward, and dangerous characters. The biographical drama, my friend dahmer, is based from the 2012 graphic novel that had the same title and was made by a cartoonist named john derf backderf. My friend dahmer, from writerdirector marc meyers, is an eerie and effective. Get my friend dahmer dvd and bluray release date, trailer, movie poster and movie stats. The source material, written by john derf backderf, provides an insight into the high school years of this his then friend, jeffrey dahmer, who is most infamous for his serial killing spree of his male lovers and also his cannibalistic tendencies. From the moment i saw the dead gaze and emotionless expression of lynchs dahmer, i got an uneasy feeling.
May 15, 2017 the movie costars alex wolff, vincent kartheiser, anne heche, and dallas roberts. Portrait of a future serial killer never comes into focus disney alum ross lynch plays teenage jeff dahmer in a movie that fails to explicate his later crimes. Ross lynch stars as jeffrey dahmer in my friend dahmer, a film based on the graphic novel by derf backderf. The dahmer character was exactly like someone i knew in high school and even looked like him. My friend dahmer is a 2012 graphic novel and memoir by artist john derf backderf about his teenage friendship with jeffrey dahmer, who later became a serial killer.
Biopic about notorious american serial killer jeffrey dahmer, taking place in both the past and the present. Meyers makes my friend dahmer a convincing high school drama, but his portrait of the serial killer as a young man telegraphs dahmer s future all too clearly. The movie based on the graphic novel about serial killer jeffrey dahmer s teenage years. This is a wellacted, unexpectedly engrossing and surprisingly. Oct 28, 2017 my friend dahmer handles these matters with a brusqueness thats offputting, though thats perhaps indicative of the films period milieu, where american flags are ubiquitous and deviations from social norms are cool until theyre simply creepy. The guy who wrote and drew my friend dahmer, derf backderf, grew up in a small, rural town in ohio called bath in the 1970s. At home, dahmer tries to tell his mother that he has friends coming. The movie says, implicitly, that if jeffrey felt like he could. My friend dahmer 2017 soundtrack complete list of songs. Based on the acclaimed graphic novel, this is the haunting, sad, funny, true story of. For me to pick up a graphic novel it really has to peak my interest, and i am intensely interested in crime. It is based on the 2012 graphic novel of the same name by cartoonist john.
Jeffrey dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the american midwest, becoming one of historys most infamous serial. Twentyoneyearold ross lynch explains his remarkable pivot from squeakyclean childrens fare to americas most notorious serial killer in my friend dahmer. Derf pitched the project as a 100page graphic novel, but failed to. Teen beach movie star ross lynch has signed on to play infamous serial killer jeffrey dahmer in the indie my friend dahmer lynch will play dahmer in his high school years in. Later, the boys join dahmer, spazzing out in the hallway. My friend dahmer trailer 2017 serial killer movie youtube. One of his high school classmates was jeffrey dahmer, who went on to kill 17 people. He develops a crush, if you could call it that, on a male jogger who turns out to be a neighbouring doctor vincent. The idea for my friend dahmer came to me just a few weeks after the news broke, derf tells pwcw. Released november 3rd, 2017, my friend dahmer stars ross lynch, alex wolff, anne heche, dallas roberts the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 47 min, and received a score of 68 out of 100 on. My friend dahmer star ross lynch on going from the.
Listen to and download the music, ost, score, list of songs and trailers. I picked the graphic novel up as i had no idea when i would find the time to travel to see the movie, but im pleased i experienced the story in its original form first. Reviewed in the united kingdom on december 24, 2018. An experimental documentary that uses archival footage, interviews, and fictionalized scenarios to tell the story of the people around jeffrey dahmer, during the summer of his arrest in 1991. It was announced monday that distributor filmrise has acquired the north american rights to my friend dahmer. The result is my friend dahmer, an acclaimed 2012 graphic memoir that has just been adapted into a film directed by marc meyers. My friend dahmer 2017 my friend dahmer dvd and bluray release date was set for april 10, 2018 and available on digital hd from amazon video and itunes on february 6, 2018. In this film, dahmer is the son of a dysfunctional family that enjoys to study animal bones, collecting dead animals on the road. My friend dahmer opens a window into the making of a serial killer.
The movie is about serial killer jeffrey dahmer, one of the most infamous murderers in u. The final panel in john derf backderfs chilling graphic memoir, my friend dahmer, is a haunting portrait of the author after getting a call from his wife, a reporter in akron, ohio, that his. High school friend recounts time with serial killer in my. Then, along came my friend dahmer to answer some of those questions. What undeniably works in meyerss film is ross lynch as dahmer. Biografie misdaad film geregisseerd door marc meyers. He would become one of americas most infamous serial killers. My friend dahmer is based on an acclaimed 2012 graphic novel by derf backderf, who was at high school with dahmer in the late 70s and was part of a. The film shows the teenage dahmer going on a school trip to. He gives a strong performance, finding the hurt, fear, frustration, and power that drives dahmer to his ultimate fate. Ross lynch a 21yearold former disney channel actor who starred in austin and ally and the teen beach series plays dahmer in the new film. The book evolved from a 24page, selfpublished version by derf in 2002. Nov 03, 2017 pop cultures current obsession with true crime continues with the new film my friend dahmer.
My friend dahmer premiered at the 2017 tribeca film festival on april 21, 2017. My friend dahmer is an intimate look at some of the formative years of a disturbed young man who would grow up to be a twisted killer. Different than the usual movies that are so quick to get to the gore and horrors, my friend dahmer. The present of the film runs in ordinary chronological order covering the period of onetotwo days. My friend dahmer the film, based on the graphic novel by derf backderf, is neither lurid nor sensationalistic instead, its a nuanced and sad high. My friend dahmer will have you looking at the serial killer. Its the last look we get at dahmer as a human being. Pat padua, the wahington post a warped wonder of a movie about a cannibalistic serial killers awkward teenage yearsit takes twisted to areas few have investigated. You watch this movie naturally tense, this sort of subject matter always starts with an uneasy sense of place and time. Former disney kid ross lynch right plays the boy who would become the serial killer and cannibal jeffrey dahmer in my friend dahmer.
The friends that he does have view him as weird and humorous but they are mostly school friends not the kind of guys who are hanging out dahmer after school. Here to talk his new movie my friend dahmer and new music coming for r5 from playing austin in disneys austin and ally to serial killer, jefferey dahmer, austin has definitely taken a 180 in his acting career. Jeffrey dahmers childhood friend talks about his graphic novel my friend dahmer and its new movie adaptation. Mar 02, 2018 based on the graphic novel of the same name, my friend dahmer, attempts to take a new perspective on the serial killer film. Nov 02, 2017 portrait of the killer as a young man. Derf opens up about his high school friend jeffrey dahmer. The movie shies away from easy psychoanalysis of the murderer, choosing instead to let the audience draw their own conclusions. Alex wolff plays dahmer s friend derf, who wrote a graphic. The performance that lynch delivered in my friend dahmer gutted my view of him. Ross played jeffrey dahmer in 2017s my friend dahmer.
My friend dahmer lives in that space for a full hour or more. The film is tonally brilliant, coming across like the breakfast club 1985. Based on the acclaimed graphic novel by derf backderf, this is the true, haunting story of jeffrey. Marc meyers, john backderf based on the book my friend dahmer by as derf. But once in a while, there comes a film that raises the question so forcefully, its impossible to ignore. Jan 30, 2018 disneys ross lynch stars as the awkward, adolescent jeffrey dahmer before he became one of americas most infamous serial killers. My friend dahmer is only my fourth graphic novel the other three being the march series by my bae congressman john lewis. My friend dahmer portrait of the serial killer as a. Meyers does his best work subtly characterizing the midwest in this post. Marc meyerss my friend dahmer is the haunting, sad, funny, true story of jeffrey dahmer in high school, based on derf backderfs critically.
My friend dahmer is based on the 2012 autobiographical graphic novel by. Whether dahmer would have turned out the same way if his youth had been different is a philosophical question, which means its pretty useless in terms of real life. How disney star ross lynch came to play serial killer. Ross lynch reveals how he prepared to play jefferey dahmer. Ross played jeffrey dahmer in 2017s my friend dahmer ross lynch played the lead in the 2017 biopic my friend dahmer about the serial killer jeffrey dahmer. Ross lynch to play young jeffrey dahmer in my friend. On may 15, 2017, filmrise acquired distribution rights to the film, planning to release it in the fall. He collects roadkill, fixates on a neighborhood jogger vincent. Several dead animals are seen some roadkill and some deliberately sliced open. Come to think of it, thats probably not a place anyone wants to be, but a compliment is a compliment.
Be the first to watch, comment, and share indie trailers, clips, and. How disney star ross lynch landed the role of serial killer jeffrey dahmer my friend dahmer is an origin story about one of americas most notorious murderers. Check out the new trailer starring anne heche, vincent kartheiser, and ross lynch. Its one that my friend dahmer seems to asking, though, even as it depicts how dahmer became the killer he was with frightening clarity. My friend dahmer synopsis jeffrey dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the american midwest, becoming one of historys most infamous serial killers. Dahmer and backderf graduated from high school in 1978. The film was released in limited theaters on november 3, 2017, with a wider release the following month. My friend dahmer star ross lynch on leaving disney.
My friend dahmer is a slowpaced film disclosing his coming of age in the highschool. My friend dahmer will be an odd footnote on a disney channel. That comes across in lynchs performance, which goes beyond a portrait of a bullied, awkward teen to look ahead to what dahmer will become. Lynch plays the infamous serial killer, jeffrey dahmer. Meyers previously directed 2017s my friend dahmer, based on derf backderfs graphic novel about his connection to serial killer jeffrey dahmer, and the filmmaker has an obvious interest in the way societal outcasts can turn into murderers. Something terrifying happened when actor cursed jeffrey. My friend dahmer 2017 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Matthews catches on and lets dahmer know that he does not seem to have any illness and send him home. God only knows, but in marc meyers absorbing and oddly beautiful film my friend dahmer, were given some clues. Disney star and r5 singer ross lynch stars in the movie adaptation of my friend dahmer, about serial killer jeffrey dahmer. My friend dahmer takes a comedic turn on jeffrey dahmer.
Those serious themes are only a small part of this generally silly, overthetop movie, though. Jeff dahmer disney channels ross lynch is an awkward teenager. Mar 28, 2012 in a scene thats typical of my friend dahmers strange blend of horror and pathos, dahmer lures a local dog into the woods, intending to kill and dismember it, but he cant quite do it, and he sets the dog free instead. Director marc meyers my friend dahmer, based on a graphic memoir of the same name by john derf backderf, is a comingofage story unlike any other.
Originally i would have rated this film 7 or 8 stars but i had to bump it up to 9 because it absolutely haunted my memory after watching it. Before that, ross had primarily starred in films aimed at younger audiences. After the initial blast of media feeding frenzy died down a bit, i got together with two of. The film might have risked more empathy for him, if that werent the. All joking aside, this film takes a touchy subject and makes it something more than a comingofage dramody about a serial killer, something. A teacher hears it, and proceeds to blame other students for the disturbance, never suspecting dahmer.
My friend dahmer takes a comedic turn on jeffrey dahmer s story. My friend dahmer 2017 stream and watch online moviefone. The release date of the movie my friend dahmer is set to november 3, 2017. The movie costars alex wolff, vincent kartheiser, anne heche, and dallas roberts. Based on the 2012 graphic novel of the same name by derf backderf, writerdirector marc meyerss my friend dahmer is a fresh and oddly successful union of.
A new movie titled after the graphic novel its based on, my friend dahmer, explores dahmer s behavior in high school. My friend dahmer is a 2017 american biographical drama film written and directed by marc meyers about the american serial killer jeffrey dahmer. My friend dahmer isnt out to excuse, explain or rationalize dahmers ghastly killings or do anything of the sort. It is based on the 2012 graphic novel of the same name by cartoonist john derf backderf, who had been friends with dahmer in high school in the 1970s, until the time dahmer began his killing spree. Mar 01, 2012 i dont read many graphic novels theyre just not my thing. On the eve of its debut at the tribeca film festival, we caught up. I actually found myself laughing during much of this film, because dahmer and friends were into making comic spectacles of themselves. My friend dahmer remakes a serial killer into a sympathetic. Brian rasicgetty at night, jeffrey dahmer dreamt about having sex. Apr 28, 2017 my friend dahmer is the movie that gus van sants elephant wanted to be. Its the true story of serial killer jeffrey dahmer in his high school days as told by his friend who created a graphic novel about the experience etc.
My friend dahmer is one of the most uncomfortable movie. Unfortunately, it turns out the jogger is a physician to one of dahmers friends, and this leads to him faking an illness to get more up close and personal with this man he has been enamored with for a long time. We are talking because backderfs acclaimed 2012 graphic novel, my friend dahmer, has been adapted into a wellreceived movie, featuring a. My friend dahmer is the culmination of a comic book project first started in 1994, shortly after jeffrey dahmer was murdered in prison. I was given this as a recommendation by a couple of friends who dont usually watch films about serial killer origin stories. Parents need to know that my friend dahmer is a drama based on a graphic novel about the authors reallife experiences in high school with future serial killer jeffrey dahmer.
Jeffrey dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the midwest united states between 1978 and 1991 before being captured and incarcerated. My friend dahmer is basically the coming of age story of jeffrey dahmer, lynch told ew last month. My friend dahmer is basically the coming of age story of. Now 21, lynch is promoting his first movie since his contract with the mouse house ended. Check out the first official trailer of my friend dahmer, the upcoming biography drama thriller movie written and directed by marc meyers and starring ross lynch. Dahmer smiles, glad to be getting attention, and perhaps even friends. And now the graphic novel has bee turned into the film my friend dahmer. High school friend recounts time with serial killer in my friend dahmer. Jeffrey dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the american midwest, becoming one of historys most infamous serial killers.
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