It's not a slasher film - it's a very melancholy tale full of regret and remorse that shows this young kid spiraling into madness.'ĭirector Meyers also looked for other ways to make the movie as authentic as possible, including shooting much of it in the Akron, Ohio neighborhood where Dahmer grew up - including the house he lived in - and making sure all props were correct for the time period. 'Where you go into it expecting a certain thing and you get to the end and it's something completely different. 'It a lot like the book,' Backderf told Rolling Stone's Bryn Lovitt of the film.

Backderf also appears as one of the main characters in the film, portrayed by Alex Wolff opposite Ross Lynch's Dahmer.īackderf's account of the adolescent Dahmer in his comic includes instances of his then-friend showing up to school drunk, obsessing over a local jogger, and acting out by pretending to be handicapped - all scenes that are depicted in the movie as well. Backderf was actually one of Dahmer's best friends in high school, and catalogued his experiences in the acclaimed comic, which was nominated for an Eisner Award. My Friend Dahmer was both written and directed by Marc Meyers, who based the film upon the graphic memoir of the same name by cartoonist John 'Derf' Backderf. The film certainly strives to for accuracy in its depiction of Dahmer's teen years. But just how accurate is My Friend Dahmer? Does it get the details of Dahmer's early life right, or is it a fictional origin story for the notorious serial killer? The new film doesn't focus on those heinous crimes, but rather shows what Dahmer was like in high school, before he became a murderer and cannibal. In 1992, Dahmer was convicted of killing 17 boys between 19, boys which in many cases he had also raped and eaten in addition to murdering them. The movie is about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, one of the most infamous murderers in U.S.

Pop culture's current obsession with true crime continues with the new film My Friend Dahmer.

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