I would put My Friend Dahmer on a short list of the finest comics-to-film adaptations. There are scenes in the film that so accurately portray scenes in my book that I was left with chills.
Those instincts told me, after doing my homework on Mark and viewing his previous work, of course, that he was a filmmaker who would do the book justice. If it seems a bit reckless to pass off a very personal work like this, well, I can only plead guilty, but my instincts about this project have always been good, probably because I lived with it for so long as it slowly took shape. Filmmaker Marc Meyers started courting me to option the book right around that time. It took me 21 years to finish the graphic novel, which became a runaway critical and commercial success with its release in 2012. When Mark asked me to sign his copy of the book early on, laughing, I simply wrote: “Don’t fuck it up!” My Friend Dahmer is a cautionary tale, one that leaves people unnerved and with much to ponder. In some ways it’s more disturbing than the tale of Dahmer’s crimes, especially since murderous kids like Dahmer keep popping up with depressing regularity here in the States. This is the story before that story, about a deeply disturbed kid who spiraled into madness while the adults in his life stood by, oblivious or uncaring. If you’re expecting a grisly horror film about necrophilia and cannibalism, that’s not what my story is.
WHEN IS MY FRIEND DAHMER MOVIE COMING OUT SERIAL
My Friend Dahmer is the true story of my teenage friendship with the strange boy who would become the most depraved serial killer since Jack the Ripper. Mayhem, while not so much a horror movie as an action-thriller, looks like a ton of fun, and it’s another film that’s been riding high on some festival praise lately. Both Mayhem and My Friend Dahmer are no-brainers as far as a couple of films that are worthy of a look. Kennedy Journalism Award for political cartoons in 2006 and an Angoulême Prize for My Friend Dahmer in 2014. What you should take a chance on: Again, less movies makes these choices so much easier. He was the recipient of a prestigious Robert F. Derf is an American cartoonist and graphic novelist.