A newly released trailer for Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story reveals American Horror Story and X-Men star Evan Peters as one of history’s most notorious serial killers. The footage finds Peters cutting a disturbing figure as Dahmer, with the series set to explore the unforgivable failures which took place, allowing the killer to wreak havoc for far longer than he should have been able to. You can check out the trailer for Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story below, which comes courtesy of Netflix.
Much of the footage centers on Evan Peters as Dahmer, whose eyes manage to look both right into your soul and straight through you at the same time. The series is set to explore the stories of his victims, as well as detailing how the killer was able to elude the authorities for so long. Despite his very obvious guilt. “Over the course of 10 powerful episodes, DAHMER shines a spotlight on the as-yet untold stories of Dahmer’s victims, the people who tried to stop him, and the systemic failures that enabled him to continue his murderous spree for over a decade,” Netflix says in a description alongside the trailer.
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“Monster chronicles the story of one of America’s most notorious serial killers, largely told from the point of view of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims, and dives deeply into the police incompetence and apathy that allowed the Wisconsin native to go on a multi-year killing spree,” the official synopsis for Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story reads. “The series dramatizes at least ten instances where Dahmer was almost apprehended but ultimately let go. The series also is expected to touch on white privilege, as Dahmer, a clean-cut, good-looking white guy, was repeatedly given a free pass by cops as well as by judges who were lenient when he had been charged with petty crimes.”
Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is Due to Land on Netflix Later This Month
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Primetime Emmy Award actor Evan Peters will lead Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story as the titular Jeffrey Dahmer, an American serial killer and sex offender who committed the murder and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Known as both the Milwaukee Cannibal and the Milwaukee Monster, Dahmer’s heinous crimes often involved necrophilia and cannibalism, with the killer sometimes preserving the body parts of his victims.
The telling of this grizzly true-crime story is being handled by American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy alongside his frequent collaborator Ian Brennan. The rest of the cast includes Richard Jenkins and Penelope Ann Miller as Lionel Dahmer and Penelope Ann Miller as Joyce Dahmer, Jeffrey’s parents, with Molly Ringwald and Michael Learned co-starring as his stepmother and grandmother. Niecy Nash, Shaun J. Brown, and Colin Ford round out the rest of the cast.
Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is due to debut on Netflix on September 21, 2022. This trailer is just the first of two, with the second due to land on Tuesday at 8 am PT.
