Gacy Reviews

A made for tv version of the story based on the real life Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy and as a result it's not a particularly well acted piece. It's a no thrills, straight forward telling of the horrific murders, but it at least tells the events of the remorseless Man.

The Movies based upon true stories and serial killers are the creepy ones.

Watched this after watching the A&E Biography on Gacy. Felt like the screenwriters should have also watched that as they missed out on what could have been stunningly horrifying scenes in the film. In real life, one of Gacy's intended victims and then boarder escaped; he arrived home to find Gacy drunk and sporting his clown attire, he cuffed the young man and began taunting him in the clown voice, until Gacy suddenly snapped into a rage and began chasing and attacking the man, screaming "I'm gonna rape you!". This story was told by the man who lived it in the A&E special, which is available on Youtube if you like to see. In real life, Gacy also invited the police investigating him to dinner at his place where he served fish; the stench of rotting bodies from the crawlspace was overwhelming and enabled them to secure the search warrant ending in his arrest. Instead of recreating these precious eerie and REAL moments, the script distorts things greatly and I'm not even sure what the hell they're going for.

Acting is unanimously terrible, with the lead being the only one to occasionally not suck.

Very minimal on killing and violence; very scarce blood, no rape scenes, and few creepy moments from the actor playing Gacy. Some shitty shots of a few bugs crawling around attempt to add some grotesquery and movie plays with the idea that Gacy is psychologically tormented through audio montage but weakly and only for one scene towards the end.

This is a big SKIP. Go for fiction or the Dahmer movie, or the penultimate real-life based serial killer flick Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

Very poorly edited, but entertaining and horrible. What an awful man!

Another "real life biography" that seems to skim over the true facts to make a more entertaining movie. It does get across the sickness of this serial killer but slowly without much depth. Still... clowns!

Nasty man but a very good film showing how the loony operated....Ive always hared clowns...

This movie was disturbing, he was gay, he liked little boys and young teen boys, and he was abused as a child so is this why he did what he did? But the most disturbing thing was his OBSESSION with clowns... that is creepy, but the movie skims over a lot of details and makes it seem like his mother was an accomplice I mean seriously how could u not know what was goin on??? really??? and NOBODY ever suspected anything but the people who LEFT outta his life, and strangely if he had let Tom leave like he planned to he woulda gotten away to Belgium... but his obsession wouldn't allow him to let him leave and that was basically his downfall... but I'm glad he got his in the end, just goes to show u, GOD works in mysterious ways and u never know when all the horrible things u do, or did will catch up to u... but overall a good portrayal of John Wayne Gacy... but him bein on South Park, now that was FUNNY!!! LMAO!!!

this was an alright horror, not really scary at all but a pretty good back story of one of the worst serial killers in american history. interesting enough, i just wanted to see more killing

Another good film about a sick man... I did not realize he dessed as a clown...Makes me want to revisit the Devil's Rejects

Its kinda crrepy but what makes it creepy is that it's a true story. My dad said I should watch it because its real and nobody makes really good scary movies these days they take it to the extreme and then you end up laughing because their so stupid

I was impressed with Mark Holton's performance in this film. But I felt that the story of John Wayne Gacy was all over the place. So I give this a "C" in my defense.

I know the Gacy story pretty well and was deeply disappointed that this boring, cheap piece of waste isn't it.

A dreadfully slow and fictionalised account of The Killer Clown. So many inaccuracies pepper this made-for-TV-movie making it ridiculous and tedious. With so much real-life subject matter to draw from I can only assume this was made by people unfamiliar with the John Wayne Gacy case and that it was aimed at the mid-morning schedule. Poor characterisation and meandering story. Although it was canny to see Adam Baldwin and Charlie Webber in it. Watch a Nat Geo documentary instead.

The worst serial killer movie I have ever seen. I felt like the director/writer tried to make Gacy look like a good guy for the first hour. It was disturbing...and bad.

Far more than a boogieman from Central Casting rampaging through hordes of teens doing the shing-a-ling at some beach party, what we have here is a story about the true face of evil, which is not Freddy Krueger but his opposite number, a tubby, self-hating building contractor who is openly derided by his adolescent employees. Little do they know the "faggot" they rough up in a parking lot is a psychopath whose sadomasochistic gratification will soon be piqued by listening to their pleas for mercy and screams of pain that must be endured by his victims until at last death could take over where Gacy left off.

While the Hannibal Leckters of the world go about their overplayed theatrics, the banality of evil so well served by the lead character in this film is what makes this writer's blood run cold. The thought of being at the mercy of a sad little man with nothing to lose and a basement full of torture instruments -- the thought there really are monsters walking among us just waiting for their opportunity -- should be carefully noted by all who see this film, What happens to the victims could just as easily happen to you. Or to your child.

Great acting couldn't save this one

Shocked story but not a good movie story tell...

How anyone can make such a boring movie from a intense story?

I know the Gacy story pretty well and was deeply disappointed that this boring, cheap piece of waste isn't it.