My Friend Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. This is the story before that story.

Late 1970s Wisconsin: an ordinary high school student conceals a mounting darkness beneath a façade of normalcy. Marc Meyers traces Jeffrey Dahmer's formative years through the eyes of his classmates, revealing how the charismatic, disturbed teen gradually descended into monstrosity. Between suburban banality and overlooked warning signs, the film dissects the psychological anatomy of an emerging predator, asking what society refuses to see.