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The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer (1993)

The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer poster
Directed by
David R. Bowen
Genre
drama film, horror film, biographical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 39m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 26 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This low budget biopic gives a firsthand account of how Jeffrey Dahmer lived and killed. It shows his apartment became a chamber of horrors where he tortured young men, later dismembering them and storing the body parts.

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What happens

The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer is a 1993 American low budget biographical crime drama film directed by David R. Bowen. It stars Carl Crew as Jeffrey Dahmer, an American serial killer, necrophile, and cannibal. The film is a firsthand account of Dahmer's lifestyle as a serial killer. When he was finally caught, it was revealed that his apartment was a chamber of horrors, where, according to the film, he tortured his young victims to death. Then he sliced up the bodies and stored the parts in his freezer, among other places. The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer was produced one year before Dahmer was murdered in prison. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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