Dahmer

My Friend Dahmer (2017)

My Friend Dahmer first published by RealCrime Magazine The actions undertaken by Jeffrey Dahmer in his adulthood are well documented. One of the twentieth century’s most notorious serial killers, between 1978 and 1991 he raped and murdered 17 male pickups, committing various outrages (dismemberment, necrophilia, cannibalism, trophy preservation) on their corpses. My Friend Dahmer, however, is not so much about the monster…

Hereditary

Hereditary (2018)

Hereditary first published by Sight & Sound, July 2018 Review: A family has lost its head. After text announces the passing of elderly Ellen Taper Leigh in her daughter Annie’s home, Hereditary opens with a long fluid take of three proximate houses: first a treehouse (also the film’s final image), then a workroom in the house…