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Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2022
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  • 1h
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Jeffrey Dahmer in Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes (2022)
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.
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Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to his gruesome crimes in unguarded interviews, offering an unsettling view into a disturbed mind.

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    • Park Dietz
    • Wendy Patrickus
    • Anne E. Schwartz
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      • Park Dietz
      • Wendy Patrickus
      • Anne E. Schwartz
    • 21User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
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    Park Dietz
    Park Dietz
    • Self - Forensic Psychiatrist for the Prosecution
    • 2022
    Wendy Patrickus
    Wendy Patrickus
    • Self - Dahmer's Defense Attorney
    • 2022
    Anne E. Schwartz
    Anne E. Schwartz
    • Self - Reporter, Milwaukee Journal
    • 2022
    Kenneth Smail
    Kenneth Smail
    • Self - Forensic Psychologist
    • 2022
    Michael Ross
    Michael Ross
    • Self - Friend of Victims
    • 2022
    Gerald P. Boyle
    Gerald P. Boyle
    • Self - Dahmer's Lead Defense Attorney
    • 2022
    E. Michael McCann
    E. Michael McCann
    • Self - Milwaukee District Attorney
    • 2022
    Dennis Murphy
    Dennis Murphy
    • Self - Detective, Milwaukee PD
    • 2022
    Kenneth Meuler
    Kenneth Meuler
    • Self - Lieutenant, Homicide Division, Milwaukee P.D.…
    • 2022
    Jeff Fleming
    Jeff Fleming
    • Self - Reporter, Milwaukee NBC Affiliate
    • 2022
    James Causey
    James Causey
    • Self - Reporter, Milwaukee Sentinel
    • 2022
    Jeff Connor
    Jeff Connor
    • Self - Tony Sears' Friend
    • 2022
    Heather Kelly
    • Wendy Patrickus
    • 2022
    Vernell Bass
    Vernell Bass
    • Self - Dahmer's Neighbor
    • 2022
    Eric Tyson
    Eric Tyson
    • Self - Childhood Friend
    • 2022
    Fred Berlin
    Fred Berlin
    • Self - Forensic Psychiatrist for the Defense
    • 2022
    Michail Takach
    Michail Takach
    • Self - Curator, Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project
    • 2022
    Jeffrey Jentzen
    Jeffrey Jentzen
    • Self - Milwaukee Medical Examiner
    • 2022
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    8kosmasp

    Companion ... piece

    No pun intended - Dahmer seemed to be looking for someone ... because he felt alone. And if you are bleak about life (or realistic), we are alone! Well mostly - hopefully you can find someone that you want to spend your time with. And the same goes for the person when it comes to you. Something that Dahmer was unable to get - or unable to sustain. At least he never felt he could.

    There was way more and he was complex on some levels. He was also quite evil - and evil in a sense that he didn't even seem to care. Apart from what it would do to him. He was always in the center of everything. That's why he was not taken aback by the fame he garnered or gathered.

    The docu series is ok and works as a companion piece to the show Dahmer - Monster. Which is really good. If you only want to watch one of those two - I'll say watch the other one. Even if it is way longer ... it is worth it, believe me!
    9amandabedson

    This should've been aired BEFORE the dramatised version.

    Netflix has done the same thing it did the Ted Bundy duo. They released 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile' (2019 with Lily Colin's & Zac Efron), and a week later released 'Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes'. The latter being far superior to the former. If I knew 'Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes' was being released, I wouldn't have watched 'Dahmer - Monster'.

    These confessional documentary type mini series are full of witness accounts, conversations with his defence attorney, the people who knew the victims & were the last people to see them before Dahmer took their life. This is the stuff that makes a series interesting, news report clips, policemen on the record saying they stand by the actions of those on duty at the time.

    Everything is laid out in a very logical fashion. It made things clear which had been muddied by the 'Dahmer - Monster' dramatisation. No recreation. You HEAR the phone call made by the neighbour asking about the 14 year old boy who was found stumbling out the apartment building, no clothes on, incoherent. You HEAR the officer inform her it had "been dealt with" & the boy had been returned to his boyfriend's (Dahmer's) apartment.

    The final episode closes off with individual testimony that is deeply respectful to the victims. Their friends, their neighbours talk about the kind souls who were taken by Dahmer. Victim names are repeated, displayed at the end.

    The series ended with my thoughts reverent for everyone who had been forever changed by the hurt caused by Dahmer that had spread like a disease in that community. I wish I could erase that Netflix dramatisation from my mind, by comparison it is camp, jumbled and very distanced from the facts.
    6VioletViolette

    Cinema of the Unsettling

    Interesting and very eerie to hear Dahmers voice speak about these horrific acts, as we have never heard this before.

    The thing that bothered me was the over the top and near CONSTANT cut scenes of creepy masks, melted face masks, film, and other super random imagery that honestly reminded me of Gabes Cinema of the Unsettling video from The Office which took me out of it.

    The editing was weird and annoying. There's so much information and it would have been absorbed and more compelling if you weren't constantly distracted by the stupid choppy and unrelated videos interspersed throughout. They're trying to overly dramatise something that is already dramatic enough.
    9Comphunk

    This broke me even more

    I have been fascinated yet horrified when I first read about Dahmer crimes back in 2016 I guess. I had no clue what his standing was amongst all serial killers. Then like in last 3 years I have watched pretty much whats available on the internet about him including the 10 part series just released on Netflix. But what this 3 part docuseries has to offer is something that would make you wonder even more, what actually went Dahmers mind. TBH I felt probably a 0.0001% sympathy for him.. But once I heard his actual confessions here with his defense attorney, I was shocked to no end. I mean this takes everything else you would have seen or read about. The shocking details and his chemistry with his young defense attorney. I mean how could they even represent this guy. The prosecution angle is something very very interesting. Theres toness of stuff out there about Dahmer, But this one is the most realistic, as it contains the words of man himself during or around his trial. I lost whatever sympathy I had when I heard about those drillings.
    10nourilouati-99251

    Just wow.. If u felt any sympathy for DAHMER its gone now..

    Excellent review of the horrific events unfolding. Even though i liked the series DAHMER now i understand some of the backlash about glorification.

    In some way after seeing CWaK seems the series feel like My Little Pony........

    The events are unfolding are told in an excellent way. And this is all about the terror this man committed and the sick**** that he was. There are many more details here then in the series. I felt Dread throughout all the way, and sometimes i really got nauxious. Also had a few moments of total goosbumps.

    The, pace, narrative, interviews, audio score, cinematography, details and time line are top notch 10 stars here.

    Also they really made me feel much more attached for the victims and made me see Dahmer as much more of a monster that he was.

    Stuff of nightmares right here..

    Excellent documentary making though.

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      • October 7, 2022 (United States)
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