To Catch a Killer

To Catch a Killer (1992) is a crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM, starring Brian Dennehy as John Wayne Gacy — Chicago's contractor and party clown whose crimes were buried, literally, beneath his own house.

The investigation started with a single missing teenager in 1978. As Detective Joe Kozenczak pulled on the thread, the picture that assembled itself was of a man who had shaken hands with politicians, entertained children at neighborhood parties, and employed young men through his construction business. Thirty-three victims were eventually found in the crawl space and under the floor.

Director Eric Till built a procedural that keeps the focus on the investigation rather than spectacle — the result is more unsettling than most serial-killer pictures precisely because it stays calm. Dennehy plays Gacy without theatrics, which is the only approach that lands. Michael Riley, Margot Kidder and Meg Foster round out the cast in a film that, at three hours, never drags. Watch To Catch a Killer (1992) online on iFILM.