Gacy (film)

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Movie
German title Gacy
Original title Gacy
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 18 / without youth approval
Rod
Director Clive Saunders
script David Birch ,
Clive Saunders
production Larry Rattner ,
Tim Swain
music Mark Fontana ,
Erik Godal
camera Kristian Bernier
cut Fritz Feick ,
Jeff Orgill ,
Chryss Terry
occupation

Gacy is the title of a psychological thriller produced in 2003 that freely tells the biography of the American serial killer John Wayne Gacy . He had murdered around 33 boys and young men in the late 1970s. The film was released on May 13, 2003 in the US as a direct-to-video production.

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Construction worker John Wayne Gacy lives with his wife Kara, their two daughters and his mother in the suburbs of Chicago in the US state of Illinois . He is politically active, very popular in the community, and entertains children as "Pogo the clown" at birthday parties. But Gacy leads a double life, because he drives on the street at night and lets young men get into his car. He kills her in his garage and buries her in the crawl space under his house. Although Gacy's neighbors complain about the bestial smell emanating from the basement and the numerous bed bugs that populate the property, Gacy is free to go on unhindered.

Even Gacy's own employees are not safe from his rampage. When Little Stevie, who works on Gacy's construction site, calls Gacy a fagot one day , and Gacy, because he does not want to pay him his wages, beats down with some buddies, his fate is sealed. Since Gacy's employee Dave and Stu cannot cope with the work alone, Gacy hires the unemployed Tom Kovacs with the plan in mind to kill him too one day. Tom moves in with him one day, not knowing who Gacy is. Some rooms in his house are empty because his wife has left him with the children. Not long before, she found gay magazines in her husband's garage, as well as a pair of handcuffs .

But Gacy gets careless. When one day he kidnapped the boy Roger and tortured him in his garage, he let him go the next day. Roger can then identify Gacy to the police - the chain of evidence is just too thin for a search warrant. From then on, two police officers guard Gacy's property around the clock. One night the door opens. Tom Kovacs stumbles out, handcuffed to his back, a rope around his neck. At the last second he was able to escape John Wayne Gacy before he could kill him too. While investigating Gacy's property, investigators come across Gacy's victim.

According to the insert , John Wayne Gacy is executed with lethal injection .

Background information

Like other thrillers that deal with historically authenticated crimes, Gacy is a film in which the biography of the serial killer was freely told. Even the victims in the film are fictitious. The character of Tom Kovacs, for example, tells the fate of two young men who lived in Gacy's house during Gacy's deeds.

The film was shot in Los Angeles ( California ) and in the surrounding area. This also explains the fact that palm trees can be seen in the background when shooting outdoors and mountains in the background when shooting wide-angle. Neither is there in Des Plaines , where the story was originally set. Another mistake: Gacy's house search and the evacuation of the victims took place in December 1978 when it was snowing in Illinois. In the film, the scene takes place in a summery atmosphere.

The film has also been available on DVD in German-speaking countries since November 6, 2003. As part of the America's Most Wanted Serial Killers DVD edition , the film was given a new DVD cover on September 18, 2008 and was re-released.

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