We can probably all agree that societies don’t “create” serial killers, yet in the last 50 years they’ve created the context for them. This is where the movie really starts to get interesting. Except that a trio of brainy bohemian types (or, at least, the 1978 Ohio version), led by Derf (Alex Wolff), decides that the sight of Jeffrey “spazzing out” is actually a so-crazy-it’s-cool outsider art stunt. It becomes an obsession, and when his dad dismantles the shed, Jeffrey reacts by faking a “spaz” attack at school - a clear sign that he’s had it with interacting. When he retreats into the chemistry shed in the rustic backyard of their home in Bath, Ohio, fixating on the insides of animals, he’s really trying to locate his own soul. Jeffrey’s dad (Dallas Roberts) can’t handle it, and neither can Jeffrey. (He gets pummeled for being a “faggot” without acting on any of his desires.) His home looks normal from the outside, but his mother, played with disquieting authenticity by Anne Heche, has been in and out of mental institutions Heche, all righteous temper and frazzled impulse control, conjures the insidiousness of mental illness - the way it creates an atmosphere of instability that worms its way into the people around it. Jeffrey is the target of bullies at school, and his crush on the bearded jogger (Vincent Kartheiser) he sees each morning from the school bus is a feeling he doesn’t know what to do with. Lynch, as surely as Jeremy Renner 15 years ago in “Dahmer” (the movie that put him on the map), has fearlessly thought and felt his way into this role.

Lynch, in aviator frames, with a shaggy coif, looks remarkably the way Dahmer did in 1978, and he acts with a spooked gravity - his face frozen, as if he were literally afraid to smile - that’s highly suggestive of unformed inner demons. The casting of Disney star Ross Lynch as Dahmer sounds like a stunt, but it works for several reasons. After “Bates Motel” and “Hannibal,” mainstream audiences are edgier now, and they’re more than ready for a movie that looks into the dark heart of the adolescent abyss. “My Friend Dahmer” is disturbing, compelling, and original, and with the right handling it could prove a specialty-market sensation.

As you watch the movie, its central idea - that Jeffrey Dahmer wasn’t just born, he was made that he started off as an actual human being - has a shocking validity that never undercuts the extremity of his crimes.

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