Gacy (2003) Widescreen[dvdrip]

Gacy (2003) Widescreen

Came across this recently on a file hosting site, thought I’d make a torrent for it as other versions out there are 4:3 fullscreen, not the best quality and it was a requested upload. Ripped from a Spanish widescreen DVD release but with an English audio track, It’s true 16:9, not stretched fullscreen (see screenshots). Grab it if this is your thing, ‘cause it's good quality and I don’t think there’s another widescreen version out there. Probably not the best film version of the Gacy story and not a gore fest, but a good solid movie that makes you wonder how people can’t see what’s going down right in front of their faces!

Plot/Review

Mark Holton, best known as the villainous neighbor from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, stars here as the bloated deviant John Wayne Gacy, a notorious clown/rapist/murderer who sexually tortured and murdered 33 teenage boys before he was arrested in 1978. The film focuses on the final weeks of Gacy's life as a free man, while he was still busy schmoozing with his neighbors and working hard to cast himself as a sort of "super citizen". If nothing else, the film causes you to wonder how on Earth did an obese, middle-aged man who surrounded himself with good-looking teenage boys and was known to frequently dress up as a clown NOT raise some major suspicions? While his neighbors and associates seemed to be snowed by Gacy's act, the teenagers that he employed were not. In a handful of scenes it is shown to be generally accepted by the young men that Gacy was an unstable, closet homosexual who was more than a little creepy. This fact could be overlooked, since Gacy was generous with cash and drugs, and often came off as more of a buffoon than a violent deviant. Gacy's true nature begins to reveal itself when he bashes one of his kept boys in the head with a claw hammer. That was a relatively minor incident compared to the other crimes the bloated killer was guilty of, as we see later in the film. The film chooses not to linger on the gory details, which is probably a good thing.

It's not perfect; this was obviously not filmed in Illinois, the "seventies" look isn't very convincing, and the film plays fast and loose with the facts of the case. Still, director Clive Saunders took a very low budget and a story much bigger than a small film like Gacy could handle and made it into a legitimately entertaining portrait of one of America's most infamous serial killers.


Format: XviD avi 16:9 Widescreen 25fps
Bitrate: Overall 1328Kps Video 1195Kps Audio mp3 128Kps CBR
File size: 808 Mbs
Runtime: 85mins
Language: English
Subtitles: None
Genre: Biography/Crime/Drama/Horror/Thriller