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Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer|Michael Rooker

Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer

Michael Rooker and Tom Towles
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Overview

HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, loosely based on the case of Henry Lee Lucas, a confessed serial killer, is a terrifyingly intimate journey into the twisted life of a murderous psychotic. As the blank-eyed Henry (Michael Rooker) drifts from place to place, he selects victims at random, slaughters them, and captures the brutality on videotape. When he is joined by his deranged roommate, a loudmouthed ex-convict named Otis (Tom Towles), the almost unfathomably malevolent acts multiply. John McNaughton's film, in the tradition of such classic studies of homicidal personality as PEEPING TOM and TAXI DRIVER, goes further than both of these movies in its flat refusal to tell the killer's story on anything other than the killer's terms. McNaughton is able to present the world Henry aimlessly traverses as Henry sees it--almost unendurably bleak and meaningless--and in doing so he allows his film to go as deep into the nightmarish mind of a killer as anything ever committed to celluloid.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
John McNaughton - Director
Flo Spink
Michael Rooker
Tom Towles
Tracy Arnold
Mary Demas
Anne Bartoletti
Elizabeth Kaden
Ted Kaden
Denise Sullivan
Anita Ores

Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD (Special Edition, Anniversary Edition)
  • Run Time: 188
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 030306770093
  • Genre: HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY
  • Rating: Unrated
  • Release Date: September 2005

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
An assault on the sensibilities of a sane person, this film coldly observes the horrendous actions of a serial killer who executes random victims in various ways.

Notes:
HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER was originally rated X by the MPAA. The film's distributors chose to release the film without a rating instead. "It's probably too bloody for the art crowd and too arty for the blood crowd."--director-cowriter John McNaughton, discussing HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER

Reviews:
"...Spare, intelligent and thought provoking....This film gives off a dark chill that follows you all the way home..." - 03/08/1990 Rolling Stone, p.69


"...Exceptionally well-acted....[A] challenging, uncomfortable and honourable approach to real-life horrors..." - 07/01/1991 Sight and Sound, p.43-4


"...A more explicit PSYCHO made with Hitchcock's integrity..." -- 4 out of 4 stars - 04/10/1990 USA Today, p.4D


"...Profoundly disturbing....[McNaughton's] artistic control of the camera and narrative is evident from the start..." - 03/23/1990 New York Times, p.C12


"...Rooker captures a psychopath's charisma in a film as raw as a fresh blade wound." -- Rating: B+ - 09/30/1994 Entertainment Weekly, p.70


"...As fine a film as it is a brutally disturbing one..." - 04/18/1990 Los Angeles Times, p.F1


"[It is the] careful, naturalistic direction of actors that gives the film its creepy staying power." - 10/18/2005 New York Times, p.E3

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