Dahmer – The Beast: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story ★★★★
Creators: Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan
Address: Carl Franklin, Jennifer Lynch, Gregg Araki and others
Distribution: Evan Peters, Richard Jenkins, Molly Ringwald, Niecy Nash
Country: United States of America
Duration: about 50 minutes (10 episodes)
Year: 2022
Gender: horror drama
premiere: September 21, 2022 (Netflix)
After a cold-blooded review of their latest project (incomprehensible in the case of ‘Halston’), the producer said, Ryan Murphy (‘Glee’, ‘American horror story’, etc.) rejected the chroniclers’ probationary period and almost surprisingly published a new portrait of the murderer: the infamous Jeffrey Dahmer is also known as the ‘Butcher of Milwaukee’, who killed seventeen men and boys, mostly of color, between 1978 and 1991, in some cases by dismembering them and eating them in the final stages of his career..
There’s not much filmography about the character, but the two most standout titles do emerge. David Jacobson, now twenty years ago, directed the elliptical and disturbing (obviously). ‘The Dahmer, Butcher of Milwaukee’with Jeremy Renner in one of her first leading roles. Trial came to Sitges in 2017 ‘My friend Dahmer’Adapted from John ‘Derf’ Backderf’s comic book about his high school friendship with his future ghoul killer. That adolescent Dahmer played by an actor ross lynching Before ‘Sabrina’ she failed to kill on screen: The movie ended when she carted up hitchhiker Steven Hicks, who would become his first victim.
‘Dahmer – Monster: Jeffrey Dahmer Story’, which we will leave in ‘Dahmer’ for language economy, shows us what happened after Hicks got into Dahmer’s car. But it begins at another point in his story: 1991, the year he was finally arrested in his Milwaukee apartment. This first episode is a kind of brilliant half-length horror movie directed by a master craftsman with a steady hand and wit. Carl Franklin, we owe a good episode of ‘Mindhunter’, the best series about serial killers. Other interesting companies, for example Clement Virgo, Jennifer Lynch or a lot Gregg ArakiThe old dark lantern of the ‘new queer cinema’.
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The existence of this gay banner should come as no surprise, not only because Araki has been making television for a long time. ‘Dahmer’ was advertised as an attempt to tell not only the story of Dahmer, the psychology, vital and existential conditions that might have driven him to do what he did, but also the story of both the murderer and some of the people who were equally victims of the murder. A police investigation dominated by homophobia and racism. The attention to these people fulfills a dual function: On the one hand, it makes the terror of the series too effective and too convincing, on the other hand, it confirms the desire to criticize the institutions. Far less could have died, starting with the 14-year-old boy the police brought back to Dahmer’s apartment after relativizing the situation as simple friction between homosexuals. Nicey Nash (Emmy was nominated for her role in The Way They See Us) She shines as Glenda Cleveland, Dahmer’s black neighbor who insists on calling authorities about the smells and even screams coming from the apartment next door.
‘Dahmer’ isn’t getting the attention it deserves, partly because of Murphy’s declining reputation, and partly because of its almost-secret premiere rather than surprise. Murphy should have been more certain of what he had. Because this is something really serious: ‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace’ is the one that he remembers most (said as the best compliment) of all his productions. that patient rhythm, that political resonance or that capacity for shame. Something very serious with the signature of the original music. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
Source: Informacion
