I wasn't expecting much going into this film. It was direct-to-VHS, so i figured it would be bad. It lived up to that. The writing is the main problem in this movie. Sometimes the scenes are set up to be akin to a horror movie, while others are written like a drama. The writing is so bad it's like a joke. In one scene, a man goes to Gacy's house and tells Gacy's elderly mother that her son is a serial rapist. Her response to the man is "You son of a b***h!" and slams the door. It was hilarious for all the wrong reasons. In another scene, two undercover cops go to Gacy's house. One of them asks Gacy, "We'd like to look around, if you don't mind," in what is either a terrible Canadian accent or a parody of a terrible Canadian accent. Gacy's response is "do you have a warrant," followed by "F**k off... d*****bags." It qualifies to be one of the worst lines in movie history. The acting for the most part is horrible. Gacy's wife in particular is a terrible actress in this film, but that goes for most of the acting. I could tell that Mark Holton was trying to act good in this, but it was impossible with the shitty, laughable script. The story is poorly structured with events not being tied together in any significant way. Gacy kills a boy, the cops look for the boy, then they forget about it until he kills someone else. Most of the movie is just isolated events. It doesn't even really show how the cops know he's the killer. I guess at one point they decide to assume he's the killer based on evidence we aren't shown they have. There is no character development but i wasn't expecting any. The first scene is Gacy being slapped by his father when he was a kid, and that is literally the only back story we get for Gacy, so it isn't even explained how that turned him into a killer. This movie could have been good if it was structured like a documentary or if the writing was good, but instead we get this. This movie might be worth a rent/view on the internet if you look at it as a B movie, even then it's not a good one. The only good part about it are the occasional "so bad it's funny" line or in one scene, Gacy hires an exterminator played by Carl from Billy Madison, so I thought that was cool. Still, if you want the real Gacy story, watch a documentary about it on Youtube. 2 out of 10
Review of Gacy
