A CRIMINAL WASTE OF GOOD FILM STOCK!

I finally got to watch this atrocity for myself this afternoon, and all I can say is that perhaps I'm in the wrong business. After all, if the hacks responsible for THIS crap got a green light, maybe I should give up the film industry and go back to working at a hot dog stand at Wrigley Field!

I was just starting high school in suburban Chicago when Gacy was finally brought down, and remember well the seemingly endless weeks of bodies being brought out of that crawl space, as well as the weeks, months and years of news reports and stories, some truly graphic, about what went on in that house. Years later, in fact, as a young soldier stationed in Germany, the locals there, upon hearing I was from Chicago, never seemed to run out of questions about this case. True, Dahmer and others may very well have done far more evil, but in the late 70's, Gacy changed the way boys from Chicago saw the world. For us, it was the first time WE were potential victims.

As such, this film did a tremendous disservice to history. Budget constraints aside, very little (if any) of the horror and evil Gacy perpatrated was accurately portrayed. In addition, BECAUSE of the budget constraints, the fact that these events took place in the Greater Chicagoland area was completely disregarded. The whole sorry mess looks like it might have happened in Van Nuys, Reseda or Encino. For Christ's sake, am I the only one who remembers the snow on the ground as body after body was taken out of Gacy's front door? The visible breaths of the Cook County Sheriff's Deputies? What do WE get? Some undercover detective with a mullet smoking a cigarette on a warm summer night!

Complete and utter waste of time. A lesson for future filmmakers here: if you can't afford to tell a true story accurately, don't try telling it at all!!!!!