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The Jeffrey Dahmer Files documentary

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Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (TV Miniseries)

Original title: The Jeffrey Dahmer Files
Year: 2012
Running time: 76 min.
Country: United States
Director: Chris James Thompson
Screenwriter: Andrew Swant, Joe Riepenhoff. Biopic about: Jeffrey Dahmer
Cast: Documentary
Music: Robert Mulrennan
Cinematography: Michael T. Vollmann
Producer: Good / Credit Productions
Genre: Documentary | Biography. Experimental Cinema
Movie Groups: About Jeffrey Dahmer
Synopsis: An experimental documentary that uses archival footage, interviews, and fictionalized scenarios to tell the story of the people around Jeffrey Dahmer, during the summer of his arrest in 1991.

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"If the film’s spare re-enactments are a little awkward, they also smartly repurpose Dahmer’s studied reserve into a meditation on perversion as hypnotic as it is repulsive."

Jeannette Catsoulis: The New York Times
"The whole film seems dead set against offering up any kind of salaciousness. Like the overly arty "Zoo" and other indie experiments, it misses the point in a disturbing way."

Joshua Rothkopf: Time Out
"Teasing out a subversive portrait of a complex monster (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Slant
"Thompson assembles his footage with an expert's touch, but what his film lacks is its own perspective on these atrocities."

Nick Schager: The Daily Beast
"Far from closing the case, 'The Jeffrey Dahmer Files' opens up a whole new perspective, acknowledging the banal and the baffling."

Mark Olsen: Los Angeles Times
"The filmmakers don't reveal a lot of new insights into Dahmer's character (...) In some ways, we are left to fill in the blanks - and that can be a queasy experience."

David Lewis: San Francisco Chronicle
"Quite frankly, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files would have been better if it had a little more meat on its bones."

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