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CAST & CREW
Jeremy Renner, Bruce Davison, Artel Kayaru
Directed by David Jacobson
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SYNOPSIS
One of the most notorious serial killers in America was Wisconsin's Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer's exploits included killing 15 boys and resorting to cannibalism on their corpses. more...
MPAA RATING
Not Rated
RUNTIME
1 hour, 42 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jun 21, 2002
Video: Aug 27, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Peninsula Films
GENRE
Dramas, Drama, Suspense, Killer, Character Study, Serial Killers, Homosexuality
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 "This film was made by and for those folks who collect the serial killer cards and are fascinated by the mere suggestion of serial killers. For the rest of us, sitting through Dahmer's two hours amounts to little more than punishment."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
 "The movie makes for watchable and interesting fare about the darkest side of human nature."
-- Rod Armstrong, REEL.COM
"Chilling, well-acted, and finely directed: David Jacobson's Dahmer."
-- Mike Bracken, MIKE BRACKEN'S HORROR FILMS
"In Dahmer's pillow game the atrocity is all about existential tragedy."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"It's shocking, intense, and totally creepy, yet compelling and sad. Jeremy Renner gives a career-making performance."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"Not a cheap slasher flick, as the subject matter would suggest, but is a little like a nature film, showing a patient predator and his foolish prey."
-- Curtis Edmonds, TXREVIEWS.COM
"The film is also sexy in parts. Just don't tell anyone you respect you're turned on.
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-- Brandon Judell, POPCORNQ
"Star Jeremy Renner seems shorter than Dahmer, but is otherwise a look-alike and gives a convincingly intense and weird performance."
-- Andy Klein, NEW TIMES
"A chilling movie without oppressive gore."
-- Wesley Lovell, OSCAR GUY
"It's a hellish, numbing experience to watch, and it doesn't offer any insights that haven't been thoroughly debated in the media already, back in the Dahmer heyday of the mid-'90s."
-- Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES
"Renner?s face is chillingly unemotive, yet he communicates a great deal in his performance. See it for his performance if nothing else."
-- Karina Montgomery, CINERINA
"A story which fails to rise above its disgusting source material."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
"But this is not a movie about an inhuman monster; it's about a very human one."
-- Nathan Shumate, COLD FUSION VIDEO REVIEWS
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"...too slow, too boring, and occasionally annoying."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Does what should seem impossible: it makes serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer boring."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
"Since Dahmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer, it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyche."
-- Jeremy Heilman, MOVIEMARTYR.COM
"Chilling but uncommercial look into the mind of Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"Writer-director David Jacobson and his star, Jeremy Renner, have made a remarkable film that explores the monster's psychology not in order to excuse him but rather to demonstrate that his pathology evolved from human impulses that grew hideously twisted."
-- Shawn Levy, OREGONIAN
"Director David Jacobson gives Dahmer a consideration that the murderer never game his victims."
-- Dan Lybarger, NITRATE ONLINE
"Renner's performance as Dahmer is unimpeachable, fascinating without being charismatic."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Baby-faced Renner is eerily convincing as this bland blank of a man with unimaginable demons within."
-- David Noh, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"Less the sensational true-crime hell-jaunt purists might like and more experimental in its storytelling (though no less horrifying for it)."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
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ROTTEN 56%
Avg. Rating: 5.4/10 |
"It lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho, without making him any less psycho."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"As gamely as the movie tries to make sense of its title character, there remains a huge gap between the film's creepy, clean-cut Dahmer (Jeremy Renner) and fiendish acts that no amount of earnest textbook psychologizing can bridge."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Jacobson produces a remarkably creepy piece of cinema that disturbs by suggestion, nuance and ambiguity."
-- Robert Koehler, VARIETY
"The movie should be credited with remembering his victims."
-- Carla Meyer, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Ambitious, unsettling psychodrama that takes full, chilling advantage of its rough-around-the-edges, low-budget constraints."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Renner's performance as Dahmer is unforgettable, deeply absorbing."
-- Tom Sime, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Suffers from a lack of clarity and audacity that a subject as monstrous and pathetic as Dahmer demands."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"All the more disquieting for its relatively gore-free allusions to the serial murders, but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subject."
-- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST
"It's difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie, beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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-- HOUSTON CHRONICLE
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"Renner carries much of the film with a creepy and dead-on performance."
-- Christopher Null, FILMCRITIC.COM
"It's not that "Dahmer" was a bad film, which it certainly wasn't, but it was a pointless one that was more unsettling than informative or
penetrating."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
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