In 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee and sentenced to 957 years in prison for killing 17 people and dismembering their bodies. This film explores the city of Milwaukee by meeting those surrounding Dahmer during and after his hidden spree. Recollections from Milwaukee Medical Examiner Jeffrey Jentzen, Police Detective Patrick Kennedy, and neighbor Pamela Bass are interwoven with archival footage and everyday scenes from Dahmer's life, working collectively to disass... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee and sentenced to 957 years in prison for killing 17 people and dismembering their bodies. This film explores the city of Milwaukee by meeting those surrounding Dahmer during and after his hidden spree. Recollections from Milwaukee Medical Examiner Jeffrey Jentzen, Police Detective Patrick Kennedy, and neighbor Pamela Bass are interwoven with archival footage and everyday scenes from Dahmer's life, working collectively to disassemble the facade of an ordinary man leading an ordinary existence.
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| The PlaylistDrew TaylorQuite frankly, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files would have been better if it had a little more meat on its bones. |
| Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAchieving an almost trance-like intimacy by paring its array of voices down to the essentials, Chris James Thompson's Jeff stands apart from the true-crime pack. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasThompson's film is something really different, a film as polite and as unnerving as its subject, one that burrows down deep into your imagination and stays there. |
| San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisIn the end, the filmmakers don't reveal a lot of new insights into Dahmer's character, or answer questions about how all these murders went unnoticed before Dahmer was apprehended. In some ways, we are left to fill in the blanks - and that can be a queasy experience. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe Jeffrey Dahmer Files is for hardcore Dahmer obsessives only. |
| Slant MagazineNick McCarthyTeasing out a subversive portrait of a complex and rather subdued monster, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files unfolds with the same meticulousness exemplified by the eponymous serial killer. |
| Shared DarknessBrent SimonAn art collage project that unnecessarily obscures its sizzle and raison d'être when a more straightforward tack would have worked better. |
| Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenFar from closing the case, The Jeffrey Dahmer Files opens up a whole new perspective, acknowledging the banal and the baffling. |
| Times-PicayuneMike ScottOne gets the feeling that Thompson left a lot on the table with The Jeffrey Dahmer Files, that it could have been something more, something bigger, something elaborate. And that may be true. But the film that Thompson did choose to make - one that is both simple but effective -- is fascinating in its own right. |
| Austin American-StatesmanRebecca OnionThis approach to a true-crime documentary departs significantly from the sensational, and is all the more moving because of it. |
