If You Liked Dahmer: 5 True Crime Films & Shows On Serial Killers

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, the American biographical crime drama series created by Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy, the maker of The Watcher, is one of the most talked about true crime series in recent times. The show premiered on Netflix on September 21, 2022, reached the number one spot in a week, and has been in the headlines ever since because of several controversies.

From Halloween costumes to pizzas, Dahmer has been all over. This disturbing trend has been criticised by the family members of his victims, who were mostly black queer folks. However, actor Evan Peters has received critical acclaim for his portrayal of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

The series revolves around Dahmer and how he became one of the “most notorious” serial killers in America after murdering several men and adolescent boys in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Ohio between 1978 and 1991. If you liked the series, here are five true crime drama series and films based on serial killers that you can watch.

My Friend Dahmer

My Friend Dahmer is yet another film based on Dahmer. The biographical psychological drama film is based on the 2012 graphic novel of the same name by cartoonist John "Derf" Backderf. He had been friends with Dahmer in high school in the 1970s, until the time Dahmer began his killing spree in 1978 while they live in Ohio.

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Mindhunter

Based on the 1995 true-crime book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit written by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker, Mindhunter is an American psychological crime thriller series from the FBI’s lens. The series revolves around FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench along with psychologist Wendy Carr, and the founding of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit within the Training Division. They launched a research project that they operate through the Behavioral Science Unit to interview imprisoned serial killers to understand their psychology expecting to apply the knowledge to solve ongoing cases.

Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of serial killer Ted Bundy’s execution, the American documentary Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes premiered on Netflix on January 24, 2019. Sourced from over 100 hours of interviews and archival footage of Bundy along with his family, friends, surviving victims, and the law enforcement members who worked on his case, makes up four episodes long documentary series. Bundy kidnapped, raped, and murdered several young girls and women during the 1970s and possibly even before that and after over a decade’s denial, he finally confessed to 30 murders across seven states between 1974 and 1978.

The Serpent

Based on the crimes of the serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who murdered young tourists from 1975 to 1976, the crime drama series The Serpent began streaming on Netflix in April 2021. Charles Gurumukh Sobhraj Hotchand Bhawani is a French serial killer, conman, and thief who preyed on Western tourists travelling in South Asian countries during the 1970s. As Sobhraj was at the peak of his crimes along with his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc, a Dutch diplomat began investigating the murders of Dutch tourists and uncovered clues leading to him.

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Zodiac

Directed by David Fincher, the 2007 American mystery thriller film Zodiac stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr. among several others. The film narrates the true story of the manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who terrorised the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The murderer taunted police with letters and bloodstained clothing, and mailed cyphers to newspapers.

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