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| “ | I'm a pervert. I'm an exhibitionist. I'm a masturbator. And a killer... like you. | „ |
| ~ Dahmer to his intended victim Rodney. |
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, referred to most often as Jeffrey Dahmer or simply Dahmer, is the eponymous protagonist villain of the 2002 biographical thriller film Dahmer, and is a fictionalized version of the real Jeffrey Dahmer. He is a serial killer who, over the span of thirteen years, raped and murdered at least fifteen men in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He was portrayed by Jeremy Renner.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- As a child, he killed animals and placed their skulls on wooden stakes.
- At the age of eighteen, Dahmer killed a hitchhiker in his parents' home, and although he was initially horrified by what he had done, the experience was sexually gratifying for him.
- He kept a severed head in his closet while living with his grandmother, and a body is at one point shown lying in his apartment's bed.
- A montage shows Dahmer drugging and raping numerous men.
- He invites a teenage boy to his apartment, where he drugs him, and then tortures him by stabbing him in the head with a power drill, and by strangling him unconscious before resuscitating him. He later rapes the boy, with it being unclear if the victim was even still alive at that point. At the end of the film, Dahmer mutilates the boy's body with a knife.
- He invites a man named Rodney to his apartment, and despite some animosity, Rodney eventually admits that he has genuine feelings for Dahmer. Nevertheless, Dahmer's homicidal urges get the better of him, and he uses a belt to try and strangle Rodney.
- The film's opening states that, in all, Dahmer was convicted on 15 counts of murder.
- Though his unhappy childhood and the refusal to acknowledge its homosexuality by his religious father might count as a Freudian Excuse, this does little in justifying all of the horrendous crimes that he committed.
Trivia[]
- While the real-life Jeffrey Dahmer was a cannibal, this aspect of his crimes is omitted from the film, not being shown or even mentioned, with the same being true of Dahmer's goal of creating a "zombie" sex slave by doing things like pouring acid into his victims' brains. The number of victims is also changed from seventeen to fifteen, though this may have only been the number of murders that Dahmer was convicted of, rather than the number that he actually committed.
- In real life, Dahmer's father was also never known for religious zealotry or homophobia.
External links[]
- Jeffrey Dahmer on the Villains Wiki