The movie fact that his mom was once in a mental institution is actually true, as is the movie scene when Dahmer draws an outline of a dead body in a school classroom.Īlso real was the dismantling of his family during high school when his parents got a divorce. The scenes of Dahmer being drawn to dead animals, murder and decomposing dead animals in chemicals is all true, as Dahmer claimed that his compulsion towards these things began when he was 14. The names of Dahmer’s family - mom, Joyce, dad, Lionel and brother, Dave - and close schoolmate, Derf, in the film are all true. While Dahmer and Derf are real people and the film is based off of a graphic memoir by Derf, how much of it is actually true and how much is fiction? He later released a full-length graphic novel in 2012, with both titled “My Friend Dahmer,” the eventual name of the film adaptation, as well.

Years later, after Dahmer, who was incarcerated for murdering and raping over 15 men and boys, died in prison, the real-life Derf wrote about his time with Dahmer and released the story as a short graphic novel in 2002.

It’s during those teenage years that Dahmer, who is played by Ross Lynch on-screen, meet John “Derf” Backderf, portrayed in the film by Alex Wolff, and the two, along with a few others, begin a relationship that’s somewhere between friendship and bullying. “My Friend Dahmer,” which released to a limited amount of theaters on Friday, follows the true story of Jeffrey Dahmer’s high school years, including his difficult family and school life, and ends with the beginning of his life as a notorious serial killer.

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