Spoken in the voice of American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, with a soundtrack of a picked-apart Black Sabbath song, "Fairies Wear Boots." Dahmer has a monologue for each of his seventeen victims. The artist's autobiography as a serial killer.

The Chocolate Factory is a suite of monologues in the voice of a fictionalized serial killer, one monologue for each victim. The camera, with an almost structuralist rigor, pans up and down simple line drawings of each of the seventeen victims. A Black Sabbath song, picked apart and extended, serves as punctuation and soundtrack. Reinke has described the tape as, "My autobiography as Jeffrey Dahmer." But really, as the tape's narrator says, "It's all about the victims."

"The Chocolate Factory marries Steve Reinke's previous concerns of goofy boredom and witty self-absorption with an unprecedented and disturbing pathology." (Pleasure Dome program notes)

 

 

[To hear the soundtrack from this video, click here.]