Has anyone been watching this Netflix docu-drama and the accompanying documentary, Conversations with a Killer: Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes? I'm still only on the third episode and thankfully, the show glosses over some of the gore, at least so far, but the scene with the 14-year-old kid really affected me. I'm sure this isn't a spoiler alert, but the fact the police who responded to the scene not only were reinstated, given backpay, but also promoted and only recently retired is shameful. Anyway, just started the thread to promote the show...so far, pretty damn good.
I’m watching. My wife quit half way through the first episode. Richard Jenkins is a national treasure. I also think the guy playing Dahmer is very talented. Good stuff.
it goes back to his childhood in episode 2. Still disturbing but yeah that first episode is hard to watch in points.
I binged it. The guy playing Dahmer did a great job. Had forgotten how so much of Dahmer’s depravity took place in a small apartment.
We’re with your wife. We suddenly asked ourselves why we were watching it and turned it off. Enjoyed You Don’t Know Me much better, though not the ending.
Yep. I'm a horror movie buff, and rarely ever phased by them...years and years of being desensitized, which might say more about me. But this show, i just dread watch, yet I still watch. It's like seeing a train wreck, knowing what is going to happen, yet unable to avert your eyes.
I thought it was pretty good. Maybe I'm unique, but I get more disturbed by watching interviews of serial killers than I do by watching shows or movies about what they did. That has nothing to do with the acting quality because this guy is really talented. Perhaps it's just because I know it's not real and because gore (at least fake gore) doesn't bother me.
From all accounts and interview footage of him that’s exactly how he sounded/behaved. The actor absolutely nailed the Milwaukee accent too.
I am not a horror movie buff, but I just read a long BBC article about the 1922 silent movie, Haxan. Sounds intriguing. have you seen it? Why documentary horror Häxan still terrifies, a century on
My bologna has a first name, it's .......... It is better when told in person to the tune of the Oscar Meyer jingle.
Maybe this isn’t on the same level, but Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) was a movie I shouldn’t have watched but couldn’t stop watching. About Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole serial killers. Ottis was born in Jacksonville so his ugly mug was on local news quite often when I was a kid.
The documentary suggests that he knew he was evil but was powerless to resist it. we have all given in to temptation, but thank God it was never anywhere the magnitude of his. He lived a tormented life.
I haven't seen the show and only vaguely know the story. Can you, perhaps in a Cliff's notes kinda way, explain what happened with the police and the 14yr old?
