The film 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.

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. My Friend Dahmer is a 2017 American biographical drama film written and directed by Marc Meyers about American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Approaching graduation, Jeff spirals further out of control, inching ever closer to madness.

But this camaraderie can’t mask his growing depravity. He begins to act out at school, and his goofball antics win over a group of band-nerds who form The Dahmerįan Club, headed by Derf Backderf (Alex Wolff, “Patriots Day”). 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). A warped wonder of a movie about a cannibalistic serial killers awkward teenage years-it takes twisted to areas few have investigated. 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 would become one of America’s most infamous serial killers. my-friend-dahmer-trailer Video Thumbnail.

Summary: Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the Midwest United States between 19 before being captured and incarcerated. This is the story of Jeffrey Dahmer (Ross Lynch), a high school loner whose. My Friend Dahmer, the movie based off of the graphic of novel of the same name by Derf Backderf, about none other than the infamous serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, in his high school years, before he ever took a life, is yet another project to release their trailer at this years San Diego Comic Con.

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