Everybody has a past, even one of America's most notorious serial killers. Jeffrey Dahmer's formative years and the people who populated his life before his murderous years are explored in the new film My Friend Dahmer, and ahead of the movie's release from FilmRise, we've been provided with exclusive character posters to share with Daily Dead readers.
Keep an eye out for My Friend Dahmer when FilmRise releases it in the US this November, and check out our exclusive character posters below, including Dahmer's mother, father, and the leader of The Dahmer Fan Club, Derf Backderf (author of the graphic novel upon which My Friend Dahmer is based).
Written and directed by Marc Meyers and based on Backderf's graphic novel of the same name, My Friend Dahmer stars Ross Lynch, Anne Heche, Dallas Roberts, Vincent Kartheiser, and Alex Wolff. In case you missed it, read our own Heather Wixson's review of the film and interview with Meyers.
"Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the Midwest United States between 1978 and 1991 before being captured and incarcerated. He would become one of America’s most infamous serial killers. This is the story before that story.
Jeff Dahmer (Disney Channel’s Ross Lynch) is an awkward teenager struggling to make it through high school with a family life in ruins. He collects roadkill, fixates on a neighborhood jogger (Vincent Kartheiser, “Mad Men”), and copes with his unstable mother (Anne Heche) and well-intentioned father (Dallas Roberts). He begins to act out at school, and his goofball antics win over a group of band-nerds who form The Dahmer Fan Club, headed by Derf Backderf (Alex Wolff, "Patriots Day"). But this camaraderie can’t mask his growing depravity. Approaching graduation, Jeff spirals further out of control, inching ever closer to madness.
Marc Meyers’s MY FRIEND DAHMER is the haunting, sad, funny, true story of Jeffrey Dahmer in high school, based on Derf Backderf’s critically acclaimed 2012 graphic novel of the same name and Meyers’s own 2014 Black List script."
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