“A riveting look at Jeffrey Dahmer through his parents’ eyes.”—Independent Film Quarterly
Quickly after his 1991 arrest, Jeffrey Dahmer was declared one of America’s most gruesome and notorious serial killers. This disturbing but even-handed film examines a new angle on the infamous case by reconstructing the life of Dahmer’s father (played in the film by Scott Cordes). Raising Jeffrey Dahmer poses intriguing questions as it probes the responsibility and the helplessness of a murderer’s parents, offering different hypotheses concerning the origins of evil itself.