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Movie iceberg12/27/2023 ![]() The concentration of those killers and their ubiquity in the news ended with Dahmer, who was caught in 1991, Vronksy says. "They have kind of a mythical status almost," said Vronksy, the author of several books on the history of serial killers, "because we knew so little about them, they were so mysterious."īut the reason there are so many productions now has to do with that "golden age" and what happened after. The three decades between 19 saw roughly 88 per cent of all American serial killers, he said, and laid the groundwork for their transition to what might, unfortunately, be referred to as celebrity. He, together with Bundy and Gacy, are the three most well-known killers from what investigative historian and author Peter Vronksy calls the "golden age of serial murder." The glut of shows about Dahmer is just the tip of the iceberg. Serial killer Ted Bundy waves to reporters after being informed of his indictment by a grand jury in 1978. Though Berlinger said in a recent interview he was completely unaware of the other show while making his, he was "sure Netflix programmed it with the Murphy show in mind." Even with Renner's Dahmer, which saw a generally positive critical reception, the Seattle Times criticized it for not offering "any insights that haven't been thoroughly debated in the media already" - 20 years before Monster was to release.Īnd Netflix is already offering another: the newest season of Joe Berlinger's Conversations with a Killer series premiered Friday with a focus on Dahmer, after previously profiling serial killers Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. Of course these are not the only pieces of media about him in fact, they're just the ones I've seen myself. Alongside are so many TV specials, books and podcasts analyzing a man who murdered 17 people - mostly Black men - that it's become hard to imagine there's much more ground to cover. Ten years before, an early-career Jeremy Renner took on the role in Dahmer, from director David Jacobson. That book arrived in 2012, the same year as the documentary The Jeffrey Dahmer Files, which looked at Dahmer from the perspective of a detective who interviewed him and a neighbour. The series from writer-director Ryan Murphy comes roughly five years after the feature film My Friend Dahmer (about the Milwaukee serial killer's high school years), itself an adaptation of a graphic novel by childhood friend and cartoonist Derf Backderf. The new Netflix series Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has a title nearly as long as the trail of Dahmer shows and movies it follows.
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