When Ryan Murphy first announced that he'd be adding the story of Jeffrey Dahmer to his chamber of horrors alongside a new season of "American Horror Story" and upcoming miniseries, "The Watcher," the gut check first reaction from many was to question, "Why?"
Dahmer's cannibalistic killing-spree — in which he primarily preyed upon gay men of color in Wisconsin between the years 1978 and 1991 — has already been told in gruesome detail via umpteen documentaries, movies, true crime books and even comic books. The question of why "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" needed to be added to that list was, and is, a valid one. And Murphy offers what he sees as a valid answer. This latest retelling, which stars "AHS" alum Evan Peters as Dahmer, uses Murphy's near formulaic skill for curating horror to shift the focus away from the killer and tell the stories of the people he killed in a way that's never been done quite this effectively before.
