Gacy: Serial Killer Next Door

Very bad acting. Feels like a play at times or just a lifetime movie. Iit's available on tubi so I'm not surprised but the picture quality is actually pretty good. It is the only reason I could even give it 3 stars. Someone needs to make a movie about Mr. Gacy that's good it is an interesting story. The documentaries are way better this story is a real story and should be portrayed better. Think it falls by the waist side when is compared to the Jeffery Dahmer incident and docu-series. Hopefully one day we will get a real adaptation of John gacy real life and why he turned out the way he did. I kno it's not about his upbringing just the boy next door vision but it could have been better just my opinion .

This is touted as being the true story of the life and crimes of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

It's not.

Basically nothing in this movie EVER happened, some of the names are the same, but that's IT. Total fabrication on every level. The blurb at the end telling you what happened to Gacy, makes out as though the events in this film happened as they are portrayed - that's utter nonsense.

This story has been done better, many times before.

The acting is school play quality - total garbage. The kids who play the friends of Bobby are just abysmal, I've seen better acting at a primary school play.

The principal actors are bad, the script is atrocious.

The actress playing the Mother can barely move her lips and looks like a store mannequin, couldn't take my eyes off the awful plastic surgery. It's the ONLY gripping thing about this pile of junk, seriously hypnotic. She looked more like a clown than Gacy did in full clown makeup.

The slow motion sequence at the end is laugh-out-loud pathetic and cringeworthy.

Seriously, everyone involved in this pile of junk needs to hang their head in shame. Watched it out of morbid curiosity to see how bad it would get - trust me, it gets very bad.

FAKE story, waste of time, BAD BAD BAD.

I have since found out that the "actress" who plays the Mother is married to the director and writer of the film. What a surprise she was cast in the role (NOT).

If the God awful acting doesn't make you turn this off in the first 15 minutes, you have a much more optimism inside you than I do. Wow!

This movie was suggested to me on Amazon Prime, not surprisingly, as I'm a big true crime movie buff. Having said that, I figured I'd give this a whirl knowing good & well that it was going to be low budget, but still hoping it would be worth my time. Oh boy, I was so wrong!

The acting is cheesier than any lifetime movie you've ever seen, I promise you that. There's a fight scene in the first five minutes in which the sound effects used for punches literally made me laugh out loud, so I guess above all else, I got a laugh worth $4.99 out of this movie. Fifteen minutes in I was done and accepted my loss to Amazon's marketing strategy.

Amazon: 1 Me: 0.

A fictionalized film about a teenage boy who lives next door to serial killer John Wayne Gacy and becomes suspicious of him.

Seriously, that's it. It's not like he befriends him for a while and then becomes suspicious. It happens in the first 20 minutes. The movie has no where to go. His attempts to convince his friends and family are shot down throughout the film. It's both boring and infuriating.

The acting is amateurish all around. The dialogue is awful. The actor playing Gacy is unconvincing and even more so when he decides to take on the persona of The Joker, complete with an over the top maniacal laugh. Make it to the it end and you'll also get to experience the tonally bizarre Chariots of Fire moment.

If you really need to see a film about John Wayne Gacy, please pass on this and watch one of the already too many films / documentaries that exist.

Rifftrax take notice. This can be your next film.

I know alot about Gacy and wanted to watch to see what Hollywood would do. There was 2 other movies done about him, but this one is more about the neighbors, so it makes if a fictional story. They got Gacy right as he was a serial killer, but his neighbors didn't suspect him of anything. So watching this, I am like the kid, Bobby, his parents are very old to be playing parents of a teenager. His mom, geez, couldn't stop looking at her oversized clownish lips. The father, another older actor. Gacy lived in a ranch style home, not a 2 story tudor style home. They really didn't show Gacy as he really was. Most of his victims were teenagers or young men he promised jobs to. This movie shows him just picking up male prostitutes. Also, Gacy had an accompliace which would bring people to him. So while this was a different spin, it still was awful.