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Article: Monster movie: is it possible to sympathize with gay serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer? An intelligent new film tries.
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- July 9, 2002
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Dahmer * Written and directed by David Jacobson * Starring Jeremy Rennet, Bruce Davison, and Artel Kayaru * Peninsula Films
My friend was very quiet as we walked out of Murder by Numbers. When I asked him what he thought of the picture, he launched into a tirade about "all these movies with implied or overt gay sociopaths." My comeback--that the simmering undercurrent of homoerotic tension was the most interesting part of the film; the screenwriter had worked overtime not to make the killers another queer Leopold and Loeb--was quickly scuttled as we overheard two gay men who had also just seen the picture bitching over the same thing.
As we emulate the ...