![]() Kennedy recalls, for example, how the striped shirt that Dahmer wore for the courtroom appearance (which fixed his dangerous-dork image in the public mind) was actually one he gave to Dahmer because his teenage son didn’t want it. The documentary segments are interviews with three lives altered by Dahmer: Patrick Kennedy, the detective who took his confession Pam Bass, a neighbor and Milwaukee’s then-medical examiner Dr. ![]() As Dahmer is seen going about his business, buying a disconcerting amount of bleach or awkwardly transporting an oversized plastic drum on a city bus, it all seems mundane in the moment, ghastly in retrospect. The fictional footage features Andrew Swant as the notorious Dahmer, who murdered and dismembered 17 people he seems to be a bland, weird-but-harmless blank slate. Dahmer offered Guerrero 50 to spend the rest of the night. Rather than indulging in exploitation kicks, the film engages more with Dahmer’s impact on the community. On March 24, 1988, Jeffrey Dahmer met twenty-two-year-old Richard Guerrero at a gay bar called The Phoenix. A hybrid of documentary and fiction, the film is directed by Milwaukee-based Chris James Thompson in his feature debut. Mesmerizing and haunting, “The Jeffrey Dahmer Files” is an inside-out serial killer movie, lacking in gore or cheap psychology and made in part for those who think they never want to see another serial killer movie.
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