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.

gacy is a movie that come out right in the serial killer boom of the early noughties following 'ed gein' 'ted bundy' 'dahmer' 'monster', but for some reason gacy wasen't as well received by the critics, hence the score on here, but i jus cannot see why, because it was a great movie, with a good story and a briilliant performance by the lead, there is very little blood, and murder here, and thats probably why some people didn't like it, but i thought it was done good, not really seeing anything graphic about what he did, it was a lot scarier how he was such a well respected member of society, and such a friendly man in the day, but such a monster at night. some people moan about certain liberties took with the story, but any 'true story' movie does it, so what's the problem, this is a good solid movie based on monster, i recommend

If I wanted to see a story about John Wayne Gacy, I would tune into A&E, as they do biographies. I was looking for something that had more horror and thriller than biography. The horror was that I sat through the whole thing.Forget the "stars" in this film. All of them are forgettable, including the one that played Gacy. It was a slow story that had so little horror that it could have been rated G.Gacy was someone who went after young men. He had sex with them, killed them and buried them in the crawlspace under his home. All you saw in this movie was him dragging bodies to the crawlspace. Exciting, huh? Maybe Gacy had a bad father, but you only get one incident in the film. That's not enough to make a decision. I want to know about his wife also. Why did she marry him after coming out of prison for molesting a boy? Serves you right, dummy.Fine something else to watch.

Gacy is set in the small Chicago, Illinois town of Des Plaines & starts during 1976 where local businessman John Wayne Gacy Jr. (Mark Holton) lives with his wife Kara (Joleen Lutz) & their two young twin daughter's. Gacy is a well respected member of the Des Plaines community, he holds huge parties, employs various young men & likes to do volunteer work in the community like attending children's parties dressed up as Pogo the Clown. However his respectable reputation seems at odds with the fact that he is a huge liar & brutal sadistic rapist & killer of young men...Co-written & directed by Clive Saunders this true-life biopic of notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy is one of several Indie produced films that profile some infamous serial killer or other from Dahmer (2002) to the enjoyable Ted Bundy (2002) to the God awful The Hillside Strangler (2004), I can't say Gacy as a film did much for me & even at a short 80 odd minute run time I doubt I would ever want to watch it again. The film starts with a caption that explicitly states several character's & events in the film have been fictionalised so Gacy is maybe not as true to life as some may like, having said that whether it's true to life or not it's still not a very good film. It's rather slow going for the most part & almost all of Gacy's crimes are omitted, at no point in Gacy do we actually see Gacy kill anyone which, considering it's a film about a serial killer, could be thought of as a definite flaw. Gacy is more of a drama than an exploitation flick, I thought the story & character's were alright but a distinct lack of gruesome incident & the total omission of Gacy's crimes meant that Gacy didn't really feel like a biopic of one of the most notorious serial killers ever. Surely those crimes & evil acts were a huge part of him? Surely they are the only reason anyone even knows who he is? How can the film almost totally ignore them?The film looks alright, it's reasonably well made although there's a distinct lack of blood or gore, there's plenty of maggots & cockroaches in Gacy's corpse strewn crawlspace but surely they would have totally overrun the entire house & not just stayed down in the crawlspace. Apparently Gacy is also known as 'The Killer Clown', in reality he was convicted & later executed (he was given 21 consecutive life sentences & 12 death sentences) for the rape & murder of 33 boys & young men (ranging between the ages of 14 & 21) between 1972 & his arrest in 1978 (27 of whom he actually buried in his crawlspace). Rumour has it Gacy's last words before his execution on May 10th in 1994 were 'kiss my ass!'. Bizarrely after his execution Gacy's brain was removed & is now in the possession of Dr. Helen Morrison although I have no idea what she intends to do with it or why she has it.Although set in Chicago the film was actually shot in California, it looks alright & has reasonable production values but it doesn't have much of a 70's feel or vibe to it. The acting is alright, Adam Baldwin has a small role at the start.Gacy is a film about a serial killer that completely misses out all of the killings, as a drama it's alright I suppose & at least it's short but I doubt I would ever want to see it again & by all accounts it's not that accurate.