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Ted Bundy / Dahmer / Ed Gein

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I wasnt expecting much from these films.I know Bundy played in his hometown when it was released but i think the others went straight to video. This set features 3 Dvd's. Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and Ed Gein.

Dahmer Review- One man 17 Bodies , 957 Years , His story is finally told. This Dvd stars Jeremy Renner as Jeffrey Dahmer. He gives an excellent performance as a teenage Dahmer and Young man. Dahmer dares to explore the truth of a man many called an abomination of nature. These Dvds are inspired by life events. This dvd will take you into the twisted personal pain that led him to do some of the most extreme cases of human cruelty. This one was well acted but i was hoping for more information at the end. The begining was great, describing Jeffrey's early years but i was hoping they would show where they found the bodies at the end and maybe a bit of the trial. But other than that its good.

Ted Bundy- Charismatic and Handsome but a monster inside. Starring Michael Reilly Burke who does a fantastic job as The young Republican Serial Killer Bundy. I almost believed it was the real Bundy. Bundy was virtually Undetectable and changed the mass murderer profile forever. Step inside the mind of the psychotic madman and ask yourself, if it were to happen again would you seem him coming?

Ed Gein- ''Before there was the term serial killer, there was ''Ed''. This one was horrific. After seeing this video I always wondered why Eddie Gein was considered one of the most gruesome serial killers in history. After all he killed only 2, which wouldn't make him a serial killer since 3 is the lucky number. Just the overall weirdness and the extremes he went to is disturbing. He is a truly unique serial killer. He is the inspiration for Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho and other horror movies. The things he did and the extent of his weirdness is unparalleled by most. The story looks back on Ed's Life and contains some real clips from when Ed was caught back in the 1950's. Ed is played by Steve Railsback who gives an excellent and haunting performance as Ed. The mother of Ed, Carrie Snodgress was great as well. Noone will ever forget the True Story Of Ed Gein.

Recomended for True Crime lovers or anyone interested in learning more about their lives, Why they did what they did or
who they were I highly Recomend these DVD'S. Enjoy.

I am a resident of Milwaukee, and remember very well the shock and awe of the Dahmer discoveries. For this reason, and that it received some prestigious nominations at the Indie Spirit awards, I was compelled to rent it. Indeed, the performances are fine, including those nominated actors Jeremy Ronner (Jeff) and Artel Kayaru (Rodney). Director David Jacobson wanted to explore the mind of a serial killer without gore or blood, and he is to be commended. His attempt to humanize Dahmer is admirable, though the film lacks focus. As I know it, Dahmer was diabolical in his methods, a lot more than the film shows. He had vats of acid in his apartment to aid in his disposal of bodies. The film left off at a time when his killing spree was at its peak (hoping for a sequel?), and there was no indication of his capture and trial and eventual incarceration on charges of mental instability (Duh). NOTE: The smell in the apt buiding was so bad, they finally tore it down. As an Indie, it was fine in handling this atrocious subject with dignity and true quality. As history, you can only be left baffled and confused. One of his victims, Joe Bradehoff, was my friend. I can understand why he might've been taken in by Dahmer's charm and smarm; Dahmer was a lot more good-looking than Mr. Renner. It's enough to give gay people a bad name. God forbid!

If you're looking for a slash and gash horror movie, you're not going to get this here. It recollects on Dahmer's killing history. I would definitely recommend this movie if you have some sort of fascination with Jeffrey. I think they casted very well, the acting was good assuming it was low budget, and they did a really good job with the settings. All and all it was a great movie for any serial killer fan, but isn't really something for someone who wants a horror movie.

This movie is worth watching if you're looking for more of a story and less gore. I think it was done well and the flashes between current events and childhood events went well together. Jeremy Renner did an excellent job playing Dahmer, so much so, that whenever I see anything on about Jeffery Dahmer, I picture Jeremy Renner. This movie is more like having free time to kill and watching a little cable on a Saturday night. Not worth a trip to the movie theater but something to watch to see a little more "human" side of Dahmer. Good movie altogether and I would watch again.

U gotta buy this movie to better understand this man....blew my mind thought I had heard everything previously.

Thks !!

The acting in Dahmer the movie was pretty good in some places but perfectly horrible in others. Dahmer was a card carrying mad man and the movie did very little to convey how truly sick demented and twisted Dahmer was. The Movie gets low marks from me because it just was NOT a realistic portrayal of serial killers in general or Dahmer in particular. Ok in a scene where Dahmer dismembers his victims he is made to look foolish, inept and hessitant. Serial Killers murder because; death fascinates them in the most twisted perverse and direct ways. A true mad man embraces, looks forward to and relishes the act of killing. For a real serial killer the act of doing evil provides a sick joy filled feeling that is so much better than sex or any other pleasure that no words can describe it. The movie wrongly makes Dahmer out to be somehow emotionally torn or troubled in the task of taking his first human body apart and likely doing more. For a serial killer I suspect murdering your first victim is like the the experience of your first killer high after your first hit of intraveinous herion. Just like a dope addict Serial Killers likely spend the rest of their lives killing till they are caught chasing the killer high that came with their first murder. Come on the movie is about a serial killer who got his jollies off killing and dismembering people. The actor that played Dahmer injected way too much of his own innate humanity at key points in his portrayal of Dahmer that made his acting seem lame. Dahmer was in every way a certified mad man who had no redeeming humane attributes whatsoever and to be real he had to be acted in an unflinching sadistic way as such.

The actor that played Dahmer was not able to suspend his own humanity and truly get into the role of being a guy who lived to explore, expand and satisfy his own sick needs at the expense of every other being or living thing in his path. In too many places in the movie Dahmer apears to have limits that he carefully expands by some sort of trial and error when nothing could be further from the truth. The most basic thing about a Jeff Dahmer is his mind had no limits, NONE WHATSOEVER! The lives of others be they human or animal existed only for his pleasures or sick WHAT IF SADISTIC EXPLORATIONS THE POSED THE QUESTION, "HOW EVIL COULD HE BECOME IF HE REALLY WORKED AT IT WITH A CONSTANT UNDYING PASSION!"

The best Serial Killers do not look like crazied nutt jobs. The best Serial Killers look just like the most normal person you could ever imagine. Key to being a successful serial killer is trying to become that guy or gal that everyone looks straight through or right past. Key to being a successful serial killer is to be more charming, more attentive, more humane appearing than all the sainted people who ever roamed the Earth. Key to being a successful serial killer is to achieve social invisibility until your prey is isolated and unsuspecting that their time of torture till the ultimate moment death is at hand. To pull off the aforementioned acts a successful serial killer must be a genius in the understanding the most basic inner workings of the human mind. The serial killer must be in tune with human society in the weird ways a hunter must get inside the head of his prey.

A serial killer is hunting humans whose cognitive and other thinking skills have placed them at the top of the predatory food chain on Earth so he can not afford to hesitate or be unsure in his actions or make stupid mistakes like the Dahmer protrayed in this movie did. The killing of the Crow I think was attempting to show how most serial killers start life by killing small animals without any sense of conscience whatsoever. Unfortunately the makers of the movie were weak hearted so the scene left the audience to infer what happened to the crow rather than suggest more forcefully that Dahmer tortured and killed the bird without mercy or remorse. This movie dispite all its pseudo-graphic and pseudo-violent tricks is an extremely timid forray into the inner workings of a monster like Dahmer.

The movie is oddly funny because of its almost sensitive way of portraying a serial killing monster devoid of all humane attributes like Dahmer. This movies well acted but ill informed portrayal of what passions motivate serial killers gives ZERO INSIGHT into the real twisted sick serial killing mind of the real Jeff Dahmer. This Dahmer movie is more like the old 1970's era Movie of the Week tripe that took a topical almost family friendly look's at killers and other fascinating issues when I was a kid. This movie was worth buying if you wanted a good laugh or if you want to understand how NOT to make a movie about a serial killer.

The one cool thing this movie did well is develop the story about the relationship Dahmer had with the one victim that he let get away. That one story thread made the movie worth buying for me. It showed in most realistic terms that even in the most evil minds the faintest flicker of love can still exist even if it does so in the most fleeting of moments. Dahmer gets three stars from me because at a movie about a serial killer it is a ripe stinker that omits so much of what made Dahmer a true monster. However Dahmer the movie is funny for all the things it gets totally wrong. Dahmer is also funny because; the movie attempts to humanize Dahmer who was about as close to FULL BORE OUT AND OUT MONSTER as any living creature can get. Dahmer gets 3 stars from me because; while it was NOT a serious movie about Jeff Dahmer the serial killer it was at least amusing to see sick how EVEN the SICK TWISTED story of Jeff Dahmer could be spiffed up, SANITIZED NEAT and CLEAN in true 1970's Movie Of The Week Fashion. All I needed was a many mirror faceted disco ball and my favorite pastel leisure suit and watching this movie would have made me feel like a kid again!

This 3-pack is a steal if you love studying serial killers as much as me. From someone who has researched the "careers" of these guys, the movies are very accurate and definitely the best version, as compared to other movies made about Bundy, Dahmer and Gein. I would definitely buy this set again...in fact, I did buy it a second time for my boyfriend. Hope you enjoy~

I've seen several recent films based upon the lives of prolific serial killers (Bundy, B.T.K., etc.), and none of them have been any good. Dahmer is no exception; in fact, it is worse than the others. I'm afraid I can't buy into any of the artsy-fartsy, pseudo-intellectual spin this film gets in some quarters. Quite frankly, all I saw was a really bad movie. I simply don't see how you can present any kind of story about Jeffrey Dahmer without at least alluding to the fact that the man freaking ate his victims. All the psychological nonsense this movie throws your way with its endless flashbacks and fictionalized recreation of dialogue and events is patently useless because it ignores the most telling and significant of his psychological problems. My problem is not the fact that this film is really just a character study of a troubled young man; rather, it's the fact that it's a very bad character study.

I'm afraid I really have nothing good to say about this film. I wasn't really impressed by Jeremy Renner's performance as Dahmer, I despised the constant flashback loops (which I consider the sole domain of weak directors) throughout the story, and I thought the ambiguous ending pretty much encapsulated everything that was wrong with the entire film. This is a film almost wholly lacking in substance.

Obviously, with the whole cannibalism thing totally off the table, this film barely registers on the blood and gore meter. I don't have a problem with that, especially since I was already well aware of the exceedingly disturbing nature of Jeffrey Dahmer's murderous acts. I do have a problem with the fact that this film really only hints at the scope and depravity of all the murders. If you already know a good bit about Jeffrey Dahmer, you won't learn anything new in this film. If you know nothing about Dahmer going in, you won't know much more about him at the end - but you may think you have some insight into his character. That, in my opinion, is the crux of this film's many problems.

Dahmer's acts were barely touched on in this film. I felt this movie delt more with him on a light level. The director tried to make him too human for my taste. There should have been more of his acts (not gore), but just how twisted he was. However, if you just want a light, yet creepy feel for Dhamer, then this movie is for you. It's not a bad film, just disapointing.

David Jacobson wrote (with David Birke) and directed this probing psychological study of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. It is an extraordinarily fine film on every level, not the least of which is the manner in which Jacobson elected to dissect the slowly rotting mind of an avatar (as in the incarnation of evil) model of alienation, profound loneliness, and victim of sexual frustration that eventually explodes into the heinous results of those unrecognized symptoms. It is a masterpiece of understatement, not straying away from the horror of the idea of what is happening, but at the same time not relying on the graphic depictions that so many film on similar subjects stoop to in order to attract audiences. The Dahmer of Jacobson's vision is a lonely youth, a man who craves attention and affection of others but must resort to drugs and violence to reach his goals of partnering with a fellow human being, a coming together that though the means are abominable the end result is an expression of tenderness that few films have been able to reveal.

Much of the success of this superb film is due to the acting of Jeremy Renner as Dahmer. He has created a character whose shy and desperate needs progress until he is able to achieve his obsession of feeling affection from others. The scenes in the bars where he repeatedly dances with attractive men, drugs their drinks, and then helps them to the back rooms where, comatose, they become his lovers for the moment (so very subtly suggested by the fine cinematography technique of strobe lighting momentary glimmers by Chris Manley with the able assistance of editor Biasha Shom). So much of the seduction and actually killing is left to the viewer's imagination that it is only with three encounters - played with virtuosity by Artel Kayàru, Matt Newton, and Dion Basco - that include the verbal interplay that reveal Dahmer's submerged yet profound needs and frustrations. Jacobson's use of flashbacks to Dahmer's experiences that fed his inability to relate to feelings that were denied him by society spare us also of witnessing all of the murders and associated atrocities that Dahmer committed, and in the end that technique helps us understand how a boy to man can alter in the direction of maturation to become one of the most famous serial killers of our time. (FACTS: Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 - November 28, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender. Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys - many of whom were of African or Asian descent - between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1987 and 1991. His murders were particularly gruesome, involving rape, torture, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism. On November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by an inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution, where he had been incarcerated.)

Made in 2002 and garnering many Indie awards, it is amazing that this film was not taken more seriously by the public. Perhaps the immaturity of the audience prevented those who usually flock to the blood and slaughter films of the 'Saw' series, 'Freddy Krueger' films, etc from accepting this story as a true one, not a festival of CGI effects. Jeremy Renner is now recognized as one of our leading actors: perhaps this film should be released again so that audiences can appreciate the masterful degree of his acting skills. Grady Harp, October 10