The Jeffrey Dahmer Files

The Jeffrey Dahmer Files

He lived next door.

2013 · 76 min · ★ 5.5 · Documentary, Crime

An experimental documentary film that uses archival footage, interviews, and fictionalised scenarios to tell the story of the people around Jeffrey Dahmer during the summer of his arrest in 1991.

Directed by Chris James Thompson · Written by Andrew Swant

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