Monster (2022)
Monster (2022)
This series examines the gruesome and horrific true crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer and the systemic failures that enabled one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.
Callum reviewedOctober 28, 2025
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⭐⭐⭐⭐ (out of 5) Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story – The Banality of Horror
There’s a quiet dread that seeps through Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, not from jump scares or music cues, but from the cold, procedural reality of its subject. We all know the name Jeffrey Dahmer — it’s one of those that sits heavy in true-crime history — but this series makes you feel the weight of it.
It’s a drama, not a documentary, but it walks the line so convincingly that it might as well be both. Evan Peters delivers a haunting, eerily restrained performance that turns revulsion into reflection. The production design and pacing immerse you in the drab, unsettling normalcy that made Dahmer’s crimes all the more terrifying — not the stuff of myth, but of apartments and alleys and neighbours who heard something and didn’t want to believe it.
If Silence of the Lambs made us fear the intellect of fictional evil, Monster terrifies us with its ordinariness. Hannibal Lecter may have dined with fava beans and a nice Chianti, but Dahmer? He was real. And that’s far scarier than any movie monster.
Pairing: Fava beans and a nice Chianti — but only if you can keep your appetite.