Raising Jeffrey Dahmer

2006
R
1h 40m

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Based on the true story of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to his capture.Based on the true story of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to his capture.Based on the true story of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to his capture.

Director
- Rich Ambler
Writers
- Wood Dickinson
- Christopher Ryan
Stars

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4.0/10

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Director
- Rich Ambler
Writers
- Wood Dickinson
- Christopher Ryan
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The film takes place in 1960, 1969, 1973, 1978, 1988 and 1991.

Goofs
When Lionel returns to his mother's house, he turns on the television to see his son, Jeffrey Dahmer's mugshot on the news. In the mugshot, he has a handlebar mustache without glasses. This is a mugshot from his 1986 arrest (another mugshot from 1982 has him with the handlebar mustache with glasses, both arrests for indecent exposure). When Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested for murder in 1991, he did not have a mustache in his mugshot, and wore a windbreaker jacket.

Connections
Referenced in Only Murders in the Building: Two for the Road (2024)

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1/10

Terrible

First of all, I am shocked that this film was even in RedBox. My wife and I did some grocery shopping and then decided on our way out to rent a movie, and RedBox was right there, so it was convenient. We went through the titles it currently had in stock, and we eventually settled on what we would later learn was just a horrible piece of crap entitled "Raising Jeffrey Dahmer". I'm just glad we only paid a dollar for it, considering we only saw about half of the movie. We couldn't bear to see the rest. Just like all of the above reviews read, the acting is horrible, the sets are horrible and very obviously low-budget, the script is terrible and the movie itself just sort of drags along. Each scene is just way too long. You just sit there getting more and more bored. It is, however, laughable, that is, how horrible this movie is. I remember laughing quite a bit, feeling embarrassed for the actors on screen. Give me $3,000 and 2 weeks and I will make a better version of this movie and still have money left to buy a nice Gibson or something.