Most of us are well aware that truth is often stranger - and more horrific - than anything a genre filmmaker can come up with. Case in point: serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who is the subject of this week's Motion Picture Purgatory review - The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer from director David R. Bowen and screenwriter Carl Crew, who pulls double duty portraying the title character in the film.
Synopsis:
The shocking assaults. The grisly murders. The horrific story you only thought you knew: Carl Crew stars as infamous sex offender, serial killer, and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, whose 14-year odyssey of evil continues to shock the world. Take a graphic trip inside the mind of a madman, from his sick fantasies and inner torments to his gruesome experiments and depraved souvenirs. This is the still-controversial film directed by David R. Bowen and produced two years before Dahmer was beaten to...
Synopsis:
The shocking assaults. The grisly murders. The horrific story you only thought you knew: Carl Crew stars as infamous sex offender, serial killer, and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, whose 14-year odyssey of evil continues to shock the world. Take a graphic trip inside the mind of a madman, from his sick fantasies and inner torments to his gruesome experiments and depraved souvenirs. This is the still-controversial film directed by David R. Bowen and produced two years before Dahmer was beaten to...
- 9/16/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Prior to writing this review, I considered quoting several clunkers from the dreadful narration featured in this film. Carl Crew, who plays Dahmer despite looking not even a little like the infamous serial killer, wrote the screenplay, which piggybacks on facts while detailing the murders with little tact and a grisly fascination. Not helped by a minuscule budget, tone-deaf performances and music that sounds like it’s on rent from a skin flick, The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer is just plain bad.
The DVD transfer…ahem, I’m sorry, the scratched up film print or beat-up VHS tape that was ported unceremoniously to DVD looks almost intentionally beat, with print scratches, dull colors, all rendered in disappointing full-screen and a stereo soundtrack. More than the technical problems plaguing this film, artistically speaking the narration hurts the film more than I can express. Crew must have willfully ignored the golden rule of “show,...
The DVD transfer…ahem, I’m sorry, the scratched up film print or beat-up VHS tape that was ported unceremoniously to DVD looks almost intentionally beat, with print scratches, dull colors, all rendered in disappointing full-screen and a stereo soundtrack. More than the technical problems plaguing this film, artistically speaking the narration hurts the film more than I can express. Crew must have willfully ignored the golden rule of “show,...
- 7/24/2011
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- JustPressPlay.net
Not to be overshadowed by the Things release, Intervision's other new DVD this week, The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer, is a must-see for those with any passing interest in how real-life serial killers are portrayed on screen. Filmed after his imprisonment and before he was murdered two years into his life sentence, this film chronicles Dahmer's life from first kill to capture. Director David R. Bowen and star Carl Crew keep things accurate and unsettlingly clinical. Narrated by Crew, the killer's voice in constantly in the viewer's head and, whereas this type of voice over work is used too often as a crutch, it becomes extremely effective in keeping the viewer connected directly to the Dahmer.
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- 7/12/2011
- by Brian Kelley
- GordonandtheWhale
The good people at Intervision Picture Corporation have announced two unique DVD releases scheduled for July 12th, one a twisted little piece of filmmaking from our neighbors to the north and the other based on a famous serial killer.
First up is Things, the 1989 Canadian gorefest starring Amber Lynn and Barry J. Gillis. Things will be resurrected from its VHS roots and reborn on DVD dripping with over four hours of special features for you to sink your teeth into.
And speaking of sinking teeth, also being released on July 12th is The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer, an accurate retelling of the serial killer's gruesome true life tale. This 1993 film is directed by David R. Bowen and stars Carl Crew, who appeared in the 80's cult film Blood Diner.
From the Press Release
Things
In 1989 it became the first Canadian shot-on-Super 8 gore shocker commercially released on VHS. Today...
First up is Things, the 1989 Canadian gorefest starring Amber Lynn and Barry J. Gillis. Things will be resurrected from its VHS roots and reborn on DVD dripping with over four hours of special features for you to sink your teeth into.
And speaking of sinking teeth, also being released on July 12th is The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer, an accurate retelling of the serial killer's gruesome true life tale. This 1993 film is directed by David R. Bowen and stars Carl Crew, who appeared in the 80's cult film Blood Diner.
From the Press Release
Things
In 1989 it became the first Canadian shot-on-Super 8 gore shocker commercially released on VHS. Today...
- 6/24/2011
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Intervision has another title debuting on DVD this July. It's called The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer . Look for it on July 12. Details below! The shocking assaults. The grisly murders. The horrific story you only thought you knew: Carl Crew (Blood Diner) stars as infamous sex offender, serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, whose 14 year odyssey of evil continues to shock the world. Take a graphic trip inside the mind of a madman, from his sick fantasies and inner torments to his gruesome experiments and depraved .souvenirs.. This is the still-controversial film directed by David R. Bowen . and produced two years before Dahmer was beaten to death in prison . whose release outraged the media, the victims. families and the public, yet remains acclaimed as an uncompromising...
- 6/23/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
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