Claysaba
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
FirstWitch
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Scarlet
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
douglas lally
First, anytime a film's tagline includes the five words "based on a true story" prepare for anything but the truth. This film is loosely connected to the real John Wayne Gacy and his rampant mid 1970's murder spree. However the story bears little resemblance to the actual events nor does it deliver an accurate portrayal of Gacy. In essence, most of the script is fictional. Once I accepted that then I had to accept a story line and direction style that I found quite frustrating. The tale sort of jumps around and introduces plot points, people, and events, that don't have any explanation or get fleshed out. These things just come and go throughout the film. It didn't seem to have flavor or focus, if I had to pick a word to describe this viewing experience it would be flat. There's not a lot of scary moments, thrilling moments, highs or lows, it's just sort of bland. I will say Mark Holton was believably creepy and disgusting in the title role. Otherwise this film serves no purpose historically, artistically, or otherwise. It just makes you want to take a shower after watching it.
HorrorOverEverything
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
Matt_Layden
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.
Arlis Fuson
So this movie is based on John Wayne Gacy and his killing spree of young boys and how he buried most of them under his house...There is so much to Gacy and it wasn't touched on in this film. He had an interesting story and none of that was told here, just you set for 90 minutes watching a movie and learning what you read on the back of the box.It was a straight to video flop and with every good reason. The director is a nobody and he did a horrible job. It was so basic and felt just like a Lifetime movie of the week. The lighting was god awful. Apparently they had no budget on this one.I was happy to see Adam Baldwin had a small role at the start of the film. I have always been a fan of him. The guy portraying Gacy, Mark Holton, is not a familiar face and I was happy of that, no one on this film was a big actor or familiar face, and I love that in movies. I kept thinking I had seen Holton somewhere and a friend said he was in Pee-wee's Big Adventure and I was like "oh yeah". I just now read on here he was in the Teen Wolf movies, Naked Gun and Leprechaun all of which I have seen numerous times, but had forgotten him, so yea he's easily forgotten.Brian Dennehy portrayed Gacy in a movie called To Catch A Killer, I would love to see that one, but this being my second viewing of this film, I can say I hope I never have to set through it again.It gives some insight into Gacy, but its not too in depth. I couldn't recommend it. 2 out of 10 stars.
