Dahmer

Dahmer is a 2002 American film, a biopic about the American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Jeremy Renner stars in the title role. Jeffrey Dahmer kills young men. He photographs them, masturbates afterwards, and conducts sadistic experiments on them before he murders them. He killed 17 men in this way in Bath, Ohio and the metropolitan area of Milwaukee. At the same time, he examines his crimes and rationalizes them with the divorce of his parents ... more

Dahmer is a 2002 American film, a biopic about the American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Jeremy Renner stars in the title role. Jeffrey Dahmer kills young men. He photographs them, masturbates afterwards, and conducts sadistic experiments on them before he murders them. He killed 17 men in this way in Bath, Ohio and the metropolitan area of Milwaukee. At the same time, he examines his crimes and rationalizes them with the divorce of his parents and his emotionally isolated childhood. Nevertheless, he can't stop inviting more and more young, mostly gay men from bars and clubs to his home, where he kills them. Only when the young African-American Rodney escapes from Dahmer's apartment are the authorities able to arrest him. Although the script recreates actual events, the names are changed out of respect for the victims. In reality, the escapee who led to Dahmer's capture was Tracy Edwards, and Dahmer's first victim was a man named Stephen Hicks. Certain details are also changed, as is... less