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16 April 2008 (Italy) moreTagline:
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. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
What's that smell? Oh, it's just the movie. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 |
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Rated R for strong grisly violence, language, some sexuality and drug use.Parents Guide:
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Iceland:16 | Finland:K-15 (video rating) | Australia:MA | Germany:18 | New Zealand:R16 | UK:15 | USA:RFun Stuff
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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 moreGoofs:
Factual errors: The film opens in the year 1953, when Gacy was 11 years old. The actor portraying him is obviously much older. moreMovie Connections:
Featured in "Cinemania: Oi pio diavoitoi dolofonoi: Alithines istories!" (2009) moreSoundtrack:
Cruel World moreFAQ
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I'd like to know what the purpose was behind the making of this film. The Gacy story would have been served better by a more documentary approach, instead of this weak "grand guignol" version which spends more time focusing on maggots and bad smells than on Gacy and his background. Are we to believe that he's a psychopath because his dad whacked him around on a fishing trip (and maybe elsewhere)? His married life is brushed over casually (what happened in all the OTHER years of his marriage?), and his business and social life was also given short shrift. Why did he kill the first boy? When did he lose control over his anger and perversion? He's just a hair-trigger, vulgar and angry guy through the entire film.
BUT HERE'S WHAT BUGS (sic) ME MOST ABOUT THIS FILM...when will L.A. producers realize that other parts of the country look different from California? This story took place in Des Plaines, IL, my wife's home town. (In fact, Gacy's last "pickup" was at a store just a few blocks from her house.) In the movie, Gacy's house and neighborhood look nothing like Chicago. The trees are wrong, the sky is wrong, the other buildings are wrong. They didn't even get the colors quite right on the Chicago police cars. Worst of all...as in many other Hollywood productions about Chicago...you can actually see MOUNTAINS in the background (during Gacy's party scene). Hollywood morons need to get out a little more! There is life beyond L.A. (At least they confessed to it in the closing credits.)