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Black Friday and the Death of Jeffrey Dahmer

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9 years ago

November 14, 2014

Jeffrey Dahmer

Nov 28^th marks the anniversary of the death of Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, a man that lured young men into his home and bludgeoned, mutilated and in some cases ate them. The body count for this serial killer reached 17 when he was done.

Netflix is offering a few streaming movies on Dahmer’s life, “Raising Jeffrey Dahmer” and the superior pseudo-documentary “The Jeffrey Dahmer Files”. The former is based on Dahmer’s father’s account of events, while the latter is a moody and charismatic blend of documentary and live action filmmaking.

Lionel Dahmer, Jeffrey’s father, has said that as a child his son was fascinated with dead animals, finding them in a crawlspace under his house, Jeffrey would collect the animal’s blanched bones and place them in a bucket to fondle over later.

Depending on which psychological journal you read, Dahmer apparently suffered from Asperger’s disorder, a pervasive developmental disorder that can hinder the sufferer’s ability to socialize or interact with others. Whether this is true or not, Jeffrey Dahmer certainly had no intention of making friends and keeping them in one piece.

In June of 1978, just out of high school, Dahmer picked up his first victim; Steve Hicks. Dahmer brought Hicks back to his parent’s home. There, after drinking and intercourse, Dahmer crushed the young man’s skull with a barbell, detached all appendages and buried Hicks in the woods behind the house. But that wasn’t the last time Dahmer would interact with Hicks.

A few years later, Dahmer’s alcoholism consumed him and he was discharged from the Army. Once home, he exhumed Hick’s remains, ground them up, and replanted them elsewhere.

For 13 years Dahmer continued to kill, nearly getting caught in May of 1991. But only a few months later in July, police discovered the gruesome photographs of his victims and took into custody.

It was discovered that Dahmer drugged, raped and quartered his marks, he saved the genitals and skulls as collector’s items. Dahmer also photographed his crimes, keeping snapshots of his victims for later viewing.

Once caught—one lucky victim escaped and led authorities to Dahmer’s residence– police found that Dahmer kept a collection of heads in a freezer and a stew of penises and hands in a kettle in the cupboard. His obsession with male genitalia was evident once more as an investigation revealed more male parts soaking in formaldehyde in a jar.

Jeffrey Dahmer’s mattress being taken out of his apartment after his arrest

If you are brave enough to search the basement of the internet, some crime scene photos are available for viewing, but be warned, they are in full color. By the end of his reign of murder, Dahmer had been indicted on 17 counts of murder and ordered to serve 15 life terms.

On November 28, 1994 while Dahmer was serving his sentence at Columbia Correctional Institution, a fellow inmate, Christopher Scarver, attacked and killed him. Ironically, although never proven, the weapon Scarver is said to have used was a metal bar taken from the prison gym, just like the one Dahmer had used to kill his first victim Steve Hicks.

Whether he was mentally ill, morbidly curious or the pure evil itself, Jeffrey Dahmer is an icon of real-life horror history.

So this year, on Black Friday, when you’re shopping for deals to celebrate the holidays, also remember it was the day in a true-life horror story that the devil died.

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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening

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April 26, 2024

Timothy Rawles

Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.

Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.

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Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.

Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.

Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.

The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date

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3 hours ago

April 26, 2024

Timothy Rawles

Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.

Jake Gyllenhaal’s in ‘Presumed Innocent’

Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.

These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:

According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”

Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.

Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.

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Trailer for ‘The Exorcism’ Has Russell Crowe Possessed

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21 hours ago

April 25, 2024

Timothy Rawles

The latest exorcism movie is about to drop this summer. It’s aptly titled The Exorcism and it stars Academy Award winner turned B-movie savant Russell Crowe. The trailer dropped today and by the looks of it, we are getting a possession movie that takes place on a movie set.

Just like this year’s recent demon-in-media-space film Late Night With the Devil, The Exorcism happens during a production. Although the former takes place on a live network talk show, the latter is on an active sound stage. Hopefully, it won’t be entirely serious and we’ll get some meta chuckles out of it.

The film will open in theaters on June 7, but since Shudder also acquired it, it probably won’t be long after that until it finds a home on the streaming service.

Crowe plays, “Anthony Miller, a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film. His estranged daughter, Lee (Ryan Simpkins), wonders if he’s slipping back into his past addictions or if there’s something more sinister at play. The film also stars Sam Worthington, Chloe Bailey, Adam Goldberg and David Hyde Pierce.”

Crowe did see some success in last year’s The Pope’s Exorcist mostly because his character was so over-the-top and infused with such comical hubris it bordered on parody. We will see if that is the route actor-turned-director Joshua John Miller takes with The Exorcism.