Review – Dahmer

How can a movie about a serial-killing cannibal possibly be this dull? Well, for starters it features almost none of his murders and nary a bite of human flesh. Instead it focuses on Jeffrey Dahmer’s sexual orientation. Though I was relieved that this wasn’t just another stupid “true crime” exploitation flick, I didn’t think an undergraduate-screenwriting-class-quality exploration of homosexuality and murder was a tremendous step in the right direction. If nothing else, the ties were too tight between coming to grips with natural sexuality and coming to grips with a compulsion to rape and kill. It made me wonder if this was stealthily one of those “homosexuality is a disease” pictures, though proponents of that position generally aren’t the masters of stealth. See if desperate