The latest of serial killer direct to video is "Gacy". Filmed in California that passes for Chicago, except for the mountains behind Gacy's house, this movie is really a good look at Gacy from certain angles. Played by Mark Holton who you would remember as the younger Buxton in Pee Wee's Big Adventure, does a superb job as Gacy. Overall, the story doesn't fit, the time frames are weak at best, and the overall truth of the crimes are overlooked. The Gacy residence yielded over two dozen bodies, and the film never gets close to those facts. The smell of Gacy's home is overplayed with black comedy that just doesn't work, and the supporting cast's sub-plots are led nowhere. Horror seekers are fooled by the vicious clown "Pogo" on the cover of the DVD, only to be let down when there isn't much violence paraded here. The next round of real-life serial killer DVDs will emerge with even more incorrect facts and sensational killing chapters just to satisfy an audience of horror seekers looking for Freddy/Jason/Meyers violence only to be let down to find out real serial killers look and sound like anyone else. The gruesome reality of Gacy's sick and demented mind couldn't be painted onto a canvas like a simple Pogo watercolor. The suffering he caused and the torture he inflicted is way too perverted and ghoulish for any audience at any age. To show these hideous events unfold and act out on your DVD is too graphic for even the most hardened splatter fan. Real people died, and the memory of them I'm sure says in someone's scarred mind somewhere including the people who knew Gacy and watched him die on the lethal machine May 94.
Review of Gacy
