A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

These serial killer films are really hit or miss, most of them are misses, for a variety of reasons. They are usually cheaply made, direct-to-video films, with an inexperienced cast, trying to profiteer on the infamy of these evil men. That being said, I decided to watch Gacy anyway, because of all the insane people who became infamous, John Wayne Gacy, may have been the craziest. This married man with kids, ran a construction business, that only employed young boys, and on the weekends, he made extra money by dressing up as a clown for children's birthday parties. This man was seen as a wimpy, harmless, closeted guy, no one would have ever thought they'd find 27 bodies underneath his house. The producers of the film, Gacy, decided to take it in a different direction than similar films by introducing Gacy as this lovable loser. If you didn't know the story and just popped in the film for the hell of it, I'd have thought this was some kind of comedy....until it wasn't. Veteran character actor, Mark Holton, stars as Gacy and was terrific, he was honestly the only reason to watch the film, especially after it turned. The story is horrific and the rest of the cast amounts to little more than eye candy, but Holton really pulls everything together, takes you inside Gacy's tortured mind, and makes this movie more than just another slasher film. After watching Gacy, I did what everyone else would do and Wiki'ed John Wayne Gacy. I wasn't surprised to see that the film is considered to be wildly inaccurate. Obviously five people aren't going to live in a house with 27 rotting bodies underneath and be almost completely oblivious to it, so I knew the film probably had a lot of bull in it. The film does have a talented star that really makes this film much more interesting then the other serial killer bio-pics.

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.

Beat up on a fishing trip, John Wayne Gacy (Mark Holton) grows into a creepy suburban Chicago citizen. Everyone who comes into contact with him senses Mr. Gacy's a dangerous psychopath, except his wife, mother, and sour-faced daughters. After discovering her husband's handcuffs, Mrs. Gacy gets suspicious, and leaves town. Then, hunky Charlie Weber (as Tom Kovacs) becomes a house-mate.Apparently a repressed homosexual, "Gacy" likes to torture young men, then bury them in the crawlspace under his house. The bodies provide nourishment for maggots and such. People notice the growing stench, and the missing men, but are powerless to stop the pot-smoking part-time clown. This dramatization, of an actual serial killer, is very difficult to understand. Some strong performances help.**** Gacy (5/13/03) Clive Saunders ~ Mark Holton, Charlie Weber, Joseph Sikora, Jeremy Lelliott

I wasn't expecting much when I rented this. But I just didn't expect to be so dull and boring, especially the serial killer Gacy. Nothing much about Gacy's back story is explained thoroughly and when it shows some aspects of it, it is just really boring which I usually won't have a problem with but most of the movie is about the boring daily life of Gacy. From Gacy having a douche of a father, to him not paying his bills, to him making the neighbors angry cause of the smell that is coming from his house, to finding ways to get rid of the smell, to hiring teenage boys to work for him. Which would be okay if it wasn't dragged on so much, but it really seems to drag cause it's just that boring to watch. The story is about John Wayne Gacy who is just a pathetic modern citizen but has a gruesome secret of murdering young men and boys and entombed them in the crawl space under his home. But when he is not killing people, he is a not so great husband to his wife and two daughters. Gacy has no aspect that the audience will find amusing or intriguing, he was just a uncharismatic loser fat guy living in suburban home in Chicago. Just about everything about this movie was dumb and boring, and the character decisions don't make any sense. One of the teen gets a hammer to the head and is almost killed by Gacy, but he keeps his mouth shut about the whole incident cause Gacy gives him a few bucks and to top it off he comes back to work for Gacy again. Gacy's decisions don't make any sense besides the fact that he isn't a very intelligent killer, he kidnaps a young teen and rapes him than he just lets him go. And it doesn't explain the reason behind this, he killed multiple other people so why let him go? Also it doesn't show why Gacy is so obsessed with clowns, cause the camera seems to focus on the posters of clowns in his house a lot. It is said Gacy use to volunteer for the children at the local hospital, but it doesn't even show that. A lot of scenes seem to be missing in this film as well, cause stuff seems to happen out of nowhere. There is no suspense in this movie, no true horror and most of it is hysterical to watch in a bad way. While showing the dull life of John Wayne Gacy it doesn't even explain what led to him becoming such a monster except maybe the boring 2 minute start of the film where he goes fishing with his father. Mark Holton however did a great job portraying Gacy though, it's a shame that it didn't delve more into the psychological insight into Gacy.3/10