Gurdy the Clown

Luther Edward Baxter better known as Gurdy the Clown is the main antagonist of the slasher film "100 Tears."

100 Tears
n the film's opening scene, a clown is seen brutally killing almost a dozen residents/employees of a halfway house with an oversized meat cleaver. He then kidnaps three more to torture and kill later. After this, two reporters (Mark and Jen) whose relationship is strictly business, even though they live together (although Mark has a crush on her) are seen discussing doing a story about a serial killer known as "The Teardrop Killer" because he leaves a teardrop drawn in blood at the scene of his crimes (hence the film's title). Mark is reluctant, but because he likes her, he agrees. They travel to the crime scene at the halfway house and bribe officer Dunkin into letting them in to take pictures where they discover that it is the work of the teardrop killer.

Shorty after this, a young woman named Christine is seen leaving her grandmother's house for a night on the town. She goes to a bar and seduces a local nerd into leaving with her. Shortly after this, a man finds his body with his throat slit implying she murdered him. After that, she hitches a ride to her mother's (Tracy Gleason) house before killing the driver and her mother. The killer uses a warehouse as a base and when a real estate agent and two property buyers intrude, he kills them.

After Jen and Mark interview a circus! it transcends that the clown is in fact the teardrop killer and that he is a disgraced former circus clown named Gurdy falsely accused of rape. He travels to his ex-girlfriend's house who is revealed to be Tracy and finds her dead. Christine, who was still at the house cleaning up the crime scene sees Gurdy, who cartoonishly chases her around the house before revealing that he is her father. She decides to work with him saying "the apple don't fall far from the tree, does it daddy?"

The duo travel back to an abandoned warehouse that Gurdy uses as a hideout and gives her a hammer as a new murder weapon. After this, seven kids break in to party, and the duo mercilessly kills all of them. She then trades the hammer for a straight razor.

Soon after, Mark and Jen trace the murders to Gurdy's warehouse and bring Officers Dunkin and Spaulding. When Christine and Gurdy realize the cops are there, Christine pretends to have been kidnapped by Gurdy. When Officer Dunkin attempts to save her, she slits his throat with the razor. She ties herself back up and lures Mark into the room where Gurdy attacks him with the meat cleaver. Mark manages to defeat Gurdy, but Christine reveals her true colors, attacks him, defeats and captures him.

Gurdy and Christine dress Mark up like a clown resembling Gurdy. The clown then shoots Mark in the head. Spaulding tells Jen to wait outside, but she goes back in, wanting every detail for her story. She finds Mark's body and briefly mistakes it for the teardrop killer's, but is horrified when she realizes it's Mark. She is then attacked by Gurdy, but successfully hides from him. She witnesses Gurdy decapitate Detective Spaulding with the meat cleaver and runs away. She is then violently attacked by Christine, who hits her twice with the sledgehammer, strangles her, bashes her head numerous times against the floor, cuts her repeatedly with the razor and leaves her to die.

After Jen's death, she realizes some of the murders may be traced back her, so she "throws her father under bus" by shooting him with Dunkin's gun and has the murders pinned on him, so she can be the new teardrop killer. She leaves to go home, but is randomly hit and killed by a car, the driver of which is revealed to be Jen, who survived Christine's attack. The film ends with Jen driving away with a serious look on her face.