The new film about Jeffrey Dahmer may be an unglamorous portrayal of a damaged soul – but it still adds to the legendMy Friend Dahmer is about as unglamorous a serial-killer movie as you could hope for: it doesn’t even feature any murders.
Instead, it lays out the warning signs that all was not right with the teenage Jeffrey Dahmer: his unstable parents, his repressed sexuality, his high-school victimisation, his unwholesome interest in anatomy.And yet, by its very existence, the movie can’t help but glamorise its subject, who went on to variously rape, murder, dismember, violate and cannibalise his 17 male victims.
It doesn’t matter if you portray them as damaged souls or psychopaths; you’re still adding to the legend.
Faced with this realisation, much of our current serial-killer fare has cast realism aside to embrace the glamour.
That was certainly true of Ryan Murphy
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