Mark Holton was fine in the part, and really seemed to be inhabiting the house where Gacy lived. He makes your skin creep seeing him with his nasty ways and his contempt for everyone else. Was the mother ever implicated in any of the murders? How could she have avoided knowing what was going on? In the movie you see her sleeping in her chair with the TV Guide open in her lap. It's almost as though she never wakes up. Is the mother still alive? Maybe someone could ask her what she thinks of her portrayal in this movie.



The film is lousy with cliches, and the actors who play the different victims are soap opera-bad. They're not even soft porn bad, they're soap opera bad. The one who plays "Tom," Gacy's foreman, is better than most of them, but he (Charlie Weber) is still perfecting his craft.



That clown makeup is a doozy, isn't it. They probably spent more money on making Holton look like a demented clown than they spent in all the other details of the movie, including the script.



I felt sorry for the boys who had to plunge their hands into the maggots. Hope they got combat pay for that one. Otherwise I kept watching, wondering how Gacy was going to get caught. Why did he ever let Roger go? That was his downfall, wasn't it? Or was it just annoying the cops who were after him? You rile a cop long enough, he's going to bust you for something. It was like a fantastic double bluff on Gacy's part, just daring the detectives, who were by then camped out in his front yard, to catch him with something.



Didn't Gacy live in Chicago? And yet they filmed the whole movie in Reseda or somewhere like that. Totally bogus.