Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

When you read the true stories of these horrible serial killers such as Gacy, Dahmer, and Bundy, its easy to think that those stories would make great and terrifying films. However time after time these serial killer bio flicks just fall flat and don't seem to capture the horror of these killers, and "Gacy" is definitely not the exception.My first complaint is just the whole tone of the movie. It never seems very serious, I felt as if I was watching a comedic made for T.V movie with all the funny parts ripped out. The story was flat and moved at an unusual and unappealing pace. I can't say I am very familiar with the true story of John Wayne Gacy (I know the basics, just not everything there is to know) but I doubt this movie followed it to a tee, some things just seemed out of place.Overall "Gacy" just doesn't do a very good job of telling the story of John Wayne Gacy. Its rather boring and just not very interesting.3/10

Gacy tells the story of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man whom many believed to be a noble and friendly man. His death toll is approximately 33 young men, who were found buried in his crawl space.Reading up on John Wayne Gacy is more terrifying than watching this half baked attempt at telling this man's story. Out of the three serial killer films I have seen,Ted Bundy, Dahmer and now Gacy, I have to say that this was the least interesting, the least inspired and the most boring. I thought Dahmer was pretty boring, but at least that film tried to get in the mind of the character, Gacy doesn't try to do anything except tell the bare bones story, at least what they decided to read about him, and put it on film. The film makes no real attempt at portraying the man behind the murders. We are introduced to his father abusing him as a child, then apparently he hears voices and kills young men. The torture sequences are tame and the death scenes come off as 'accidents'. You never fully experience the terror this man brought onto the lives of others. The film almost plays out like a comedy, I honestly can't tell if that's what it was trying to be. If so, bad taste, if not, bad filmmaking. The script is bad, full of ear bleeding dialogue. The actors seem to make no real effort here and the movie itself has a lot of inaccuracies. The film begins with the title card saying that names, places and events have been fictionalized to protect those people. This immediately gives you a bad feeling that the filmmakers have taken the story of Johny Wayne Gacy and purposely distorted facts to make an entertaining and emotional film. Fail on both accounts. It's more of a slap in the face to the families of those who went through this. The film seemed more fixated on the rotting stench beneath Gacy's house, rather than a cohesive story. I know what that smell was, not the dead bodies, but this excuse for a film.

Mark Holton effectively portrays notorious 70's serial killer John Wayne Gacy in this cheap portrait of his life. We get an understanding that treatment from his dad in a sense spawned the monster he'd become. He's seen in the early goings of this biography as a husband in a rather benign marriage with daughters who look completely miserable. He's an obvious mama's boy and Mrs. Gacy is often seen watching programs on the television with her son as they enjoy time together with Kara Gacy(Joleen Lutz)often rolling her eyes in bemusement. Soon Kara discovers male nudie mags in his tool box and peculiar-enough, the jeans of young men in his dresser drawers. Soon Kara and the kids are gone and John takes to the streets, suckering young males in various ways to his house before sodomizing and murdering them, burying their bodies in a crawlspace under his home. A running "joke" is how everyone becomes so sickeningly overcome by the smell emanating from his house's crawlspace. Gacy hires young males to work for him, and we get an idea of how others can see his homosexuality..it's often used as a source of ridicule when talked about by those who can read between the lines. The film doesn't elaborate on the obvious sadomasochistic pleasures Gacy had with chosen unfortunate victims, but we see glimpses of severe mistreatment to several males by handcuffing them using a rope twisting a stick into their throats, gagging them with a sock. We Gacy hit an employee over the head with a hammer, later bribing him to remain quiet. We see Gacy pick up a male promising weed and money, only to commit atrocities towards him(..not shown in the film, but subtly hinted at). We see how the stench from his crawlspace was a constant reminder of his unforeseen activities. We get an idea of how the image of clowns was of such importance in his life as the camera points out pictures among other artifacts. We do see him in "clown-face" as well. The film always makes it a point to point out the kind of mean-spirited, profane, and slippery human being he really was, and director Clive Saunders unveils to us who he really was behind the masquerade others were fooled by. And, we see how he is defeated by his obsessions for teenage males, both sexually and sadistically. The man we are presented with is a heathen with few qualities, quite unlike the character who duped a community. Saunders and David Birke do the right thing by proclaiming this as "based" on true events, embellishing a bit so that the particular audience interested in this sicko could get an understanding of who he really was, not perceived to be. There is a garden party where important political figure claims he's the "embodiment of the American Dream", but we rarely see the Gacy figure which impressed a great number of people. He holds out paying his workers, and we see where the money often goes to..drink and drugs. Once his marriage to his second wife ends, Gacy's activities increase, with his desire for Jimmy(Oren Skoog)taking center stage as he offers a free room to him cheap. This sets in motion what would ultimately damn him..through an attempt to murder Jimmy(who was planning to leave for the West Coast)and not paying a disgruntled friend he owed cash to, his true menace would soon be discovered. The film is shot mostly with a steadicam and often up close, I guess so that the setting within the 70's wouldn't be so unrealistic. I think the filmmakers were more concerned with the character of Gacy and his activities than how purely authentic Chicago of that period looks. You can go on IMDb's trivia portion and discover just what mistakes the director made regarding the the goofs of 70's Chicago and how this film doesn't accurately convey the city. Through small clips, we get a small glimpse into his past before Chicago..the monster that was in Iowa before he took his exploits to Chicago. I say watch this for Holton's performance as Gacy, because I think he brings out the person who this psychopath really was. He has the right look for the role and has that certain disturbing quality about him that Gacy needs for this film. Covers a lot of ground in a short amount of time, and perhaps the budget just wasn't quite large enough to really provide a stronger narrative of one of America's most infamous serial killers...using, say, Spike Lee's Summer of Sam(..which does cover a period of life in NYC during the murderer's grip over the city)as an example. The film does spend ample time building the sinister atmosphere of that crawlspace with it's maggots and roaches, sun beaming light through the smallish windows.

This movie implies some grisly violence following homosexual activities. And to many a dismay, there is no scenes of rape or even an execution finale. Nevertheless, GACY is worth a gander. The telling of one of America's most prolific serial killers, John Wayne Gacy. The monster kept his secret by being a model citizens in his suburban Chicago neighborhood. He was know to perform as a clown at hospitals and any place he was asked. He also provided work for desperate boys and young men. That was a giveaway leading to his downfall. Who knew of the horrors transpiring in his modest home, where bodies rotted in the crawlspace. Thirty brutal murders were traced back to Gacy with most of the bodies found beneath his house and some in the Des Plains River. It is estimated that Gacy picked up over 2000 men and boys. The cast includes: Charlie Weber, Tom Waldman, Kenneth Swartz, Jeremy Lelliot, Edith Jefferson, Joleen Lutz and Joe Roncetti.