Family members of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims protest the Netflix series

The Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story series, which has just landed on Netflix, is making a lot of talk. Many, in fact, are intrigued as often happens when we tell the stories of serial killers and borderline personalities who manage to escape justice for a long time despite committing the most heinous crimes. Being a series signed by Ryan Murphy, a brilliant author but with an extremely glossy taste (just think of his previous project like Ratched), some have nevertheless noticed how the story is told by aestheticizing the figure of this serial killer, interpreted with great skill but also with an ambiguous charm from Evan Peters, with comments that are even said to be "nauseated" by the vision. However, the family members of the victims of Dahmer himself are especially lashing out against this production, who say they are scandalized by the spectacularization that the series offers.

Eric Perry, cousin of Errol Lindsey, nineteen year old killed by Dahmer in April 1991 after a terrifying torture involving muriatic acid poured into a hole in the skull, he tweeted: "I won't be the one to tell what people are to watch, I know the true crime genre is cool, but if you're really interested in the victims, know that my family is very upset ”, and then adds:“ It means going through the trauma again and again, and to what purpose? How many films / series / documentaries do we need? ". Perry also showed a picture of Errol's sister, Rita Isbell, who in the series is seen having an emotional breakdown in the process.

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Isbell herself, in an article written for the American site Insider, wrote: “I have never been contacted by the series. I think Netflix should have asked how we felt about the project. They didn't ask me for anything, they just made it happen ”. In fact this is not the first project that has been made on the figure of Jeffrey Dahmer, a figure so sadistic and complex that has fascinated many filmmakers: Jeremy Renner, the Hawkeye of the Marvel films, had given him his face in the 2002 film Dahmer. , as Ross Lunch did in 2017's My Friend Dahmer, not to mention numerous documentaries like 2012's Jeff and Conversations With a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes, also released on Netflix. Each time, for those who have experienced those brutalities and losses very closely, it is a trauma that is renewed.