I realized pretty quickly that I would really like to do both, working on movies and working in music. I started taking piano lessons and playing in a band with a bunch of friends of mine. Q: What first interested you in film music and how did you get involved in the business?Īndrew Hollander, photo by Michael Scott SlosarĪndrew Hollander: I grew up really loving movies, and I had started playing music when I was 12 or 13. Hollander describes his challenges and stylistic decisions in scoring MY FRIEND DAHMER in the following interview. With a purposefully minimalist, understated score, Hollander skirts around the Dahmer bio to provide emphasis when needed for dramatic purposes but otherwise lets the storytelling immerse the viewer in time, place, and character keeping them tautly focused on the psychological drama whose ending most of us recall all too well.
MY FRIEND DAHMER MOVIE SPOILER SERIAL
What is it like to create music for a film that follows the nuanced origin story of a serial killer? Enter composer Andrew Hollander (WAITRESS, SLEEPWALK WITH ME, SERIOUS MOONLIGHT) who was tasked with the unique opportunity to really get inside Dahmer’s head and soundtrack his young life.
Disney Channel’s Ross Lynch provides a striking portrayal of Jeff Dahmer, interpreting the young man’s mannerisms and quiet, shy nature with only momentary glimpses of the hidden rage that would become exhibited in the months to come, as witnessed with growing unease by those who knew him in those early years. Released this month on home video, MY FRIEND DAHMER is populated with a very good cast, as the film examines Jeffrey Dahmer without commentary, showing how he was treated in high school and at home while increasingly indulging in the kind of behavior that would eventually erupt into depravity and murder. One of those friends, John “Derf” Backderf, documented his experiences knowing young Dahmer in a 2012 critically acclaimed graphic novel, which has been written for the screen and directed in 2017 by Marc Meyers. His bizarre behavior at school attracts unexpected friends who find his behavior admirably obnoxious. MY FRIEND DAHMER is the story before that story, portraying Dahmer as an awkward teenager struggling to make it through high school with a family life in ruins. Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the American Midwest, becoming one of history’s most infamous serial killers. Andrew Hollander: Scoring MY FRIEND DAHMER