Gacy

Gacy (2003)

  • 17% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 26% of users liked it
    (4,020 ratings)

For those who don't know the name and legacy of John Wayne Gacy, the movie is based on the true story of one of the nation's most prolific serial killers (33 murder convictions). Gacy depicts the methods upstanding citizen and neighborhood party clown Gacy (Mark Holton) used to seduce young… More

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Genres
Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Jan 1, 2003 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is

    i'm pretty sure Gacy's life wasn't this boring

  • Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com

    Was this movie really necessary? Sickoid film content is far from entertaining.

  • Martin Scribbs, Low IQ Canadian

    Gacy channels its horror through bicentennial suburban kitsch, clowns-in-the-closet visuals, and a heaving, foul, maggot-carpeted crawlspace deep with death and lies.

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

    We barely learn a thing about [Gacy], other than the fact that his father abused him and he hates his wife.

  • Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly

    In this unenlightening, dramatized account of Gacy's crime spree, first-time writer-director Clive Saunders, working with television writer David Birke, displays little genuine interest in why Gacy killed.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Cassandra M


    John wayne Gacy a real life serial killer, now a horror movie. I liked this movie, but beware it is kind of a slow moving movie.Based on a true story of a serial killer, model citizen,loving father and husband. serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys… More

  • Lady D


    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.

  • Wahida K


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

  • _kelly .


    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… More

  • Nicki M


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

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