It's a brave choice for the film's writer director Marc Meyers, working from a critically acclaimed 2012 graphic novel by John "Derf" Backderf, who spent several months during his time in high school as one of a group of band-nerds who come together to form The Dahmer Fan Club, a group that is seemingly attracted to Dahmer's offbeat and increasingly bizarre behavior and that subsequently fuels his increasingly depraved antics. The most disturbing thing about My Friend Dahmer may very well be that for a good majority of the film you will actually like the young high school student known as Jeff Dahmer, a socially awkward teenager struggling to make it through high school and to survive life with a family in ruins.ĭahmer, played masterfully by Disney Channel's Ross Lynch, isn't quite portrayed as a "normal" high school student in My Friend Dahmer but he also isn't really portrayed as the monster that we know he would become.
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