Henry-Portrait of a Serial Killer (Blu-Ray) (1990)

Director: John McNaughton  Starring: Michael Rooker  Tom Towles  
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Publisher: MPI
Format: Blu-Ray DVD
UPC: 00030306180496
Buy.com Sku: 211406954
Item#: V2XEQ7
Category Keywords: Crime  Cult Film  Disturbing  Essential Cinema  Killer  Murder  Psychos  Serial Killers  Theatrical Release 
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Editor's Note

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.


Plot Summary

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.

 

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Region [unknown]
NTSC
Special Edition

 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: MPI
Release Date: 9/29/2009
Original Release Date: 1990
UPC: 00030306180496
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Michael Rooker
Tracy Arnold
Tom Towles
Steven A. Jones - Music
Steven A. Jones - Producer
Richard Fire - Screenplay Collaboration
John McNaughton - Producer
Malik B. Ali - Executive Producer
Charlie Lieberman - Director of Photography
Waleed B. Ali - Executive Producer
Robert McNaughton - Music
Ken Hale - Music
Lisa Dedmond - Producer
John McNaughton - Screenplay Collaboration
John McNaughton - Director

 
Memorable Quotes
"You want some fries?"----Henry (Michael Rooker) to his shaken pal Otis (Tom Towles) after he kills two prostitutes in front of Otis

"The moose is loose."----bumper sticker on the back of Henry's car


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
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