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“Once Dahmer kills, however – and I can’t stress this enough – my sympathy for him ends. Meyers eschews Backderf’s troubled omnipresent narration, but he remains rooted in the source material, by working certain panels into shots of the film and by honouring the author’s original intention as laid out in a prose introduction: “It’s my belief that Dahmer didn’t have to wind up a monster, that all those people didn’t have to die horribly, if only the adults in his life hadn’t been so inexplicably, unforgivably, incomprehensibly clueless and/or indifferent,” Backderf writes. Here was the concept, but even better: a real story all laid out.” So when I came across My Friend Dahmer I thought it was a blessing. I was also, just separately, looking at graphic novels whenever I could.

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“I initially thought I was going to create a fictional story using composite details, a kind of road map towards becoming a serial killer.

“The idea of a portrait of a serial killer as a young boy was interesting to me,” Meyers says. The film is adapted from the autobiographical graphic novel of the same name, from 2012, by the cartoonist John Backderf, aka Derf, who had been friends with Dahmer at high school in the 1970s. Marc Meyers’s My Friend Dahmer is a sobering riposte to these earlier, often sensationalised representations. He has subsequently inspired books, plays, documentaries, a novel, by Joyce Carol Oates, and two rather glamorous biopics: The Secret Life, from 1993, and Dahmer, starring Jeremy Renner, from 2002.ĭahmer didn’t have to wind up a monster, if only the adults in his life hadn’t been so inexplicably, unforgivably, incomprehensibly clueless and/or indifferent He raped, murdered and dismembered 17 boys and men, sometimes preserving their body parts as mementoes, sometimes dabbling in cannibalism. “It’s hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I’ve done,” he said, “but I know that I did it.”Ī serial killer and sex offender, Dahmer became known in the tabloids as the Milwaukee Cannibal. By the time the authorities caught up with Jeffrey Dahmer, in 1991, even the perpetrator was astonished by his crimes.