Gacy (2003) (V)

Regisseur:

Clive Saunders

Drehbuchautoren:

David Birke (writer)
Clive Saunders (writer)

Premierendatum:

16. April 2008 (Italy)

Genre:

Biographie | Krimi | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Werbezeile:

Friend. Neighbor. Killer.

Plot:

Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his house which he shared with his family.

Plot Keywords:

Evil Clown | Video | Killer Clown | True Crime | 1970s

Nutzerkommentare:

Not Bad AT All

Besetzung

Mark Holton	...	John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Adam Baldwin	...	John Gacy, Sr.
Tom Waldman	...	Hal
Charlie Weber	...	Tom Kovacs
Allison Lange	...	Gretchen
Edith Jefferson	...	Mother Gacy
Joleen Lutz	...	Kara Gacy
Scott Allen Henry	...	Young John Gacy
Kenneth Swartz	...	Dave (as Kenneth Swartz)
Matt Farnsworth	...	Stu
Joseph Sikora	...	Roger (as Joe Sikora)
Jeremy Lelliott	...	Little Stevie
Oren Skoog	...	Jimmy
Joe Roncetti	...	Peter
Eddie Adams	...	Duane

Alternativ:

The Crawl Space

MPAA:

Rated R for strong grisly violence, language, some sexuality and drug use.

Länge:

USA:88 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Altersfreigabe:

Iceland:16 | Finland:K-15 (video rating) | Australia:MA | Germany:18 | New Zealand:R16 | UK:15 | USA:R

Drehorte:

Altadena, California, USA

Firma:

DEJ Productions

Dies und das:

The pictures of clowns in the final sequences are supposed to suggest that they were images painted by John Wayne Gacy. Actually, they are copyrighted collotype reproductions of the work of Cydney Grossman published in 1954. I stopped the film and confirmed the Cydney signature on the pictures. Peter22060

Pannen:

Faktische Fehler: The film opens in the year 1953, when Gacy was 11 years old. The actor portraying him is obviously much older.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Neufassung von To Catch a Killer (1992) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Can't Keep Your Body Off My Mind

Not Bad AT All

A lot of people slam this movie because it doesn't "show" the whole life of Gacy, and how he came to be. Well it shows enough, and having studied Gacy and his kind obsessively, I found this movie to be quite accurate in terms of Gacy's personality and behaviors. The acting is alright, mostly it's Mark Holton (J.W. Gacy) that holds up the movie since it IS about him, and the other actors are just standing around waiting to be picked off one by one, or to kick Gacy's ass for not paying him money. This movie portrays him well; Glib, a liar, obsessively mean, and a violent sociopath. No one will ever really know "why" Gacy killed people, but there are parts in this movie that point out to it. Some people expect a movie to play and show them everything in order to learn, instead of paying close attention to how the character's react to one another in the film which can just as much as a story(for example, the wrestling scene in which one of the stupid moron kids calls Gacy a "faggot", a term which his father applied to him, see the rage?) Holton's performance is chilling and he brought the disgust that was J.W. Gacy alive in this film. This is film does have it flaws (mountians and palm trees, a "nude" sex scene in which the male partner is clearly seen still wearing his pants) but the content makes up for it. Good flick.