![]() ‘Do a Dahmer!’ they command of him, and he obliges your heart sinks when their interest wanes and their plaything is discarded.Īs a viewer, it’s weird to be put in the situation of feeling anything at all for so notorious a figure. ![]() ![]() Receiving his wish, he’s adopted as a dorky mascot of sorts by a pack of cool kids who like the way he ‘spazzes out’ in public places. Behind Dahmer’s clunky aviator glasses, Lynch’s eyes shine with the hope of communion with his peers. It’s anchored by a dangerously glum performance by 21-year-old Ross Lynch, who becomes more interesting the more you watch him. Writer-director Marc Meyers turns Backderf’s celebrated book into an absorbing, dramatised portrait of casual cruelty and teenage desperation, equal parts ‘The Virgin Suicides’ and ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’. But graphic novelist Derf Backderf did go to high school with the future serial killer and ’70s teen loner Jeffrey Dahmer, who, back then, who was just another Midwestern kid with a fetish for dead animals. ![]() Okay, so maybe he’s not your best friend.
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