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Dahmer (2002) is, at first glance, a fairly run-of-the-mill bad guy biopic, tracing the exploits of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer from late teenagerhood to just before his arrest, for a smorgasbord of crimes, at age 31. Jumping back and forth between the past and the present, the film fills in Dahmer’s personal history through frequent flashbacks, and paints a picture of him that turns out to be surprisingly—almost uncomfortably—compassionate. However, the flashbacks give the film a disjointed quality that makes it less effective as a thriller (or a horror film) than many of the more infamous serial-killer epics, such as those comprising the Silence of the Lambs oeuvre.

Filmed shortly after the nightmare that occurred at Columbine High School, Duck! was the first (and by far the worst) movie that presumed to make sense of the tragedy. If you enjoyed Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine you might as well force yourself to sit through this piece of tripe in order to get a different take on the subject. Where one film exploits both victims and survivors, the other attempts to poke fun at the media responsible for exploiting both victims and survivors. A rather clever idea to satirize something that is so blatantly unfunny; unfortunately, it was an idea that landed in the incapable hands of William Hellfire (Derwin) and Joey Smack (Derick).