Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)

Fantastic!

Absolutely Fantastic

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Jason Moss (Jesse Moss) is a normal college kid. Serial killer John Wayne Gacy is appealing his conviction, and Jason wants to do a paper on him. Jason starts to do research. Then he exchange letters and phone calls. He begins to change and becomes more than just a pen pal. More and more he's becoming a protégé and his next victim.Jesse Moss is a reasonable actor who could be an everyday college student. The pace is slow due to the fact that the kid and Gacy don't go face to face until close to the end. When that meeting occurs, the intensity goes off the charts. William Forsythe is incredibly creepy and threatening. That one scene makes up for the rest of the movie.

First, I am not a professional movie reviewer. So with that in mind:I am an expert at spotting a really great, dark, disturbing movie that removes the layers of the onion in 119 minutes and not only reveals the really Dark Side of EVIL, but also the effects it can have on any of us.That is what is the most disturbing and scary about this film. I have learned after 60 years of human experience, that there is more evil than good out there and the only way to survive EVIL is either to kill it or stay away from it. If you can learn this in the outside and unsafe world of ours, then you can have a long and pleasurable life with your own safe family and friends.Jason thinks he can survive EVIL by not staying away from it, but as we see at the end credits, he loses the psychological battle of sustaining his own identity, which ultimately destroys him. The best comparison to this movie is "In Cold Blood", where Truman Capote crosses over the psychological boundary into the "Heart of Darkness" of Perry's mind. Capote losses his fragile identity under the pretense of trying to write a book about Perry and Dick, but just as in Jason's journey, he too loses to the Evil from within himself by exposing himself to the EVIL manipulations of John Wayne Gacy, expertly acted by William Forsythe. A must see, but only for those who are really sharp enough to know what the real world is like and the stomach enough too survive what a real Human Monster looks like.

This is a difficult movie to watch. I rented it over the holiday week for entertainment.I felt the movie draws the viewer into the emotional sea of conflict and any flick that can do that, in my estimation is superior.Certain parts are very difficult because they deal with sexuality , ciminiality and morals all at once.The flick should not be rejected simply because it might to thought to be anti-gay. There were parts that I thought could pander to homophobic people.I would recommend it and advise imagine you are 18 years old and dealing with a psychological experiment where you become the bait for the vampire.

When the subject comes up in everyday conversation of serial killers, personally two names immediately rear their heads in my mind. Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy. Gacy one of the more spookier killers i have read about in us history who was responsible for luring young male prostitutes home in his "nice guy" guise and murdering them and burying their many bodies in his root cellar of his own home. Based on true events that occurred during the last few weeks of Gacy's life before he finally succumbed to lethal injection On May 10, 1994. Young university law student approaches his professor with the idea on doing the latest required Theseus on Gacy himself sort of an psychological profile. The professor advises him to look elsewhere for a subject as serial killer Theseus's are Way over done. Jason promises he will deliver answers into Gacy's psyche that have never surfaced either by interviews by both the FBI and media. Jason then takes it upon himself to write a letter to Gacy on death row. A relationship between the two begins. Jason tiptoes around ,madness as he tries his best not to be sucked into Gacy's evil world. Jesse Moss was awesome in this and i couldn't help but compare him to a young Tom Cruise but that still remains to be shown. Forsythe who i feel is very underrated pulls off the Gacy character brilliantly. this movie pulls no punches in showing you the dirty parts of the world that are usually whitewashed by Hollywood!