Evan Peters plays Jeffrey Dahmer in Ryan Murphy’s upcoming crime series

No stranger to creepy characters, Evan Peters will play one of America’s most infamous serial killers for a new Netflix series.

The “American Horror Story” and “X-Men: Apocalypse” actor will take on the title role in “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which will be co-created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. According to Deadline, the series’ cast also includes Richard Jenkins, Penelope Ann Miller, and Niecy Nash.

While details are sparse, “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” will be more of a psychological thriller than a horror, and is said to describe the subject’s multi-year murder spree from the perspective of one of its victims.

The series will also look at Dahmer’s case through the current lens of white privilege, dramatizing at least 10 instances where the Wisconsin resident – described in press notes as “ a tight, handsome white man ” – was given a free pass by mild police. and judges. While no release date has been announced, the pilot episode will be directed by Carl Franklin.

Dahmer, known variously as the “Milwaukee Cannibal” and the “Milwaukee Monster,” murdered and mauled 17 men and boys from 1978 to 1991. He also committed necrophilia and cannibalism to several of his victims, many of whom were human of color and some underage. Convicted of 16 murders, he died in 1994 at the age of 34 after being beaten by another inmate, Christopher Scarver.

“Monster” isn’t the first Hollywood project inspired by Dahmer’s crimes. The 2002 biopic ‘Dahmer’ starred Jeremy Renner in the title role, while Disney Channel star Ross Lynch portrayed the serial killer during his teenage years in 2017’s ‘My Friend Dahmer’, based on the graphic novel of the same name by John ‘Derf’ Backderf.