HorroRated archive entry
Gacy
HorroRated verdict
- Directed by
- Clive Saunders
- Written by
- David Birke
- Produced by
- To be confirmed
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Why it’s HorroRated
Mark Holton's performance as John Wayne Gacy is the film's main asset, grounding what could have been pure exploitation in something more unnerving. The focus on Gacy's social life and the way his community failed to see what he was is a more disturbing angle than pure violence. Uneven in places but worth watching for Holton's work.
Synopsis
Mark Holton plays Gacy with a studied ordinariness that makes the film more disturbing than any theatrical approach would have. The focus stays on his social life and the community's failure to register what was right next to them rather than on the crimes themselves. A serious true crime portrait that trusts restraint over shock.
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Quick facts
- Release date
- May 13, 2003
- Runtime
- 1 hour 28 mins
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Content rating
- Not rated
- Entry type
- Movie
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