THE SECRET LIFE: JEFFREY DAHMER

Made less than two years after Jeffrey Dahmer’s arrest—and inspired by Dahmer’s own highly-publicized confessions—David R. Bowen’s brutally intense biopic has the aesthetic of a snuff film, and a no-holds-barred lead by writer/actor Carl Crew as one the 20th Century’s most notorious serial killers. Over one-thousand hours of research went into this creepy-ass film, and the facts are presented without affectation—like an industrial training film. What really tips the meter into the red is the incredible voiceover. Seamlessly collaged from actual Dahmer quotes and set to a muted synth score, the narration counterpoints and transform the visuals of Dahmer’s murder spree into Barry White-like love rhapsodies, macabre Hallmark cards, and the maudlin diary entries of a depressed teenager.