

The Jeffrey Dahmer Files
2013-02-15 · 76 min · ★ 5.5
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.
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- Directors
- Chris James Thompson
- Production companies
- Good / Credit Productions, Echo Bridge, Library Films
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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