Culture news Made 20 years before the Netflix series, this film about the killer Jeffrey Dahmer is available for free HERE!
It’s available for free on france.tv: the film Dahmer with Jeremy Renner precedes the successful Netflix series.
In 2022, fans of morbid stories discovered on the Netflix platform Dahmer: Monster, a mini-series produced by the service which was intended to be a biopic of the life of Jeffrey Dahmer. The man being a serial killer, author of 17 murders and cannibalism, who naturally inherited the sweet nickname of “Milwaukee cannibal”. A particularly oppressive show which has also suffered from some controversies and complaints from the real families of the victims, but which has still garnered more than 701 million hours of viewing since its release. Clearly, Dahmer’s story finds a lot of interest among spectators since 20 years earlier, the criminal was entitled to another adaptation, this time into a feature film.
We are not talking here about the role of Ross Lynch in the film My Friend Dahmer, but of Jeremy Renner, who we know much better today for his character of Hawkeye, who played the leading role of Dahmer, a film written and directed by David Jacobson. The feature film focuses on a very specific time in the killer’s life, when he was employed in a chocolate factory. He also allows himself a lot of liberties, even inventing a character for the needs of the narration, that of Rodney, who manages to escape the murderer. It was thanks to his remarkable performance in the film that director Kathryn Bigelow spotted Renner and invited him to join the cast of the cult film Minesweepers.
On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, one of the world’s most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This film is inspired by the story of his life – Synopsis france tv
Free on france.tv
Good news for those interested, the film is currently offered free of charge on the France.tv online platform. In the thriller genre, the site also offers Midnight Silence, a Korean thriller by Oh-Seung Kwon released in 2021 which focuses on the escape of a deaf mother and daughter while a serial killer is launched. their kits. A success which is entitled to a perfect score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. You can also watch Bone Collector, City of Lies, or Summer of 84 and A Private Affair. In another style, the catalog also offers a nice handful of animated films like Your Name, but also the film adaptation of Cowboy Bepop, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Miss Hokusai, Maraï my little sister, and Amer Béton.