My Friend Dahmer

Name: My Friend Dahmer
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Released: November 3, 2017
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Adam Kroloff, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche, Brady M.K. Dunn, Cameron McKendry

2017

METASCORE

Generally favorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews

See All

USER SCORE

Generally favorable reviews based on 33 Ratings

See All

7.2

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

7.2	Your Score
7.2	User Score Generally favorable reviews based on 33 Ratings

Would you like to write a review?

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Your review may be edited for content. 0/5000

Check box if your review contains spoilers

Play Sound

Please enter your birth date to watch this video:

You are not allowed to view this material at this time.

My Friend Dahmer

Now Playing: My Friend Dahmer

Movie Details & Credits

Altitude Film Entertainment | Release Date: November 3, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Adam Kroloff, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche, Brady M.K. Dunn, Cameron McKendry, Dallas Roberts, Dontez James, Harrison Holzer, Lily Kozub, Michael Ryan Boehm, Miles Robbins, Ross Lynch, Tommy Nelson, Vincent Kartheiser, Zachary Davis Brown

Summary: Jeff Dahmer (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 hisJeff Dahmer (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.… Expand

Director: Marc Meyers

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 107 min

See All Details and Credits

Watch Now

Stream On

Buy on

Stream On

Expand

Metascore

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Critic Reviews

100

Sheri Linden

Oct 31, 2017

In its fusion of craft and narrative, My Friend Dahmer is exquisite. In its portrayal of Jeff's agonies, it can be excruciating. Read full review

William Bibbiani

Nov 7, 2017

Unsettlingly intimate, and nearly bursting with dread, My Friend Dahmer is an intriguing biopic about the early life of one of America’s most notorious serial killers, with an extraordinary and breakout per-formance by Ross Lynch at its center. Read full review

Richard Lawson

Dec 9, 2017

My Friend Dahmer doesn’t present some rueful wish that, oh, young Jeffrey might have made it if only someone had reached out to him. But it does extend him some human compassion, letting us see how the tragedy of his loneliness, spurred by the horror of his dark compulsions, made pre-murderous Dahmer something of a victim himself. Read full review

David Edelstein

Nov 6, 2017

It would be misleading to call My Friend Dahmer “entertaining,” but I got off on its fuzzy sense of dread, its poker-faced ghoulishness. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Nov 15, 2017

My Friend Dahmer becomes one of the year’s most chilling true-life dramas. Read full review

Empire Alex Godfrey

Jun 4, 2018

A small, slight window into a mixed-up soul, this is more intriguing than engaging. Its restraint, though, is admirable, resulting in a mood-piece with an ongoing sense of unease. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Nov 2, 2017

If we’re not supposed to pity Dahmer while watching the unfortunate progression of his sad life, why are we watching? Is it to reinforce the notion that he was always a monster? Or is it to forgive Derf (Alex Wolff) and his buds for assisting in his descent? In the end it really doesn’t matter because we don’t buy any of it. Read full review

SEE ALL 26 REVIEWS

Write a Review

Negative:

User Reviews

40mangunshot

Mar 13, 2020

One of the best biographical films I've ever seen. An amazing, deep look into the childhood of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Great performance by Ross Lynch.