Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (Blu-ray)
The shocking true story of Henry Lee Lucas.
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 6, 2016
- Originally Released: 1990
- Label: MPI Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Rooker & Tom Towles | |
Performer: | Tracy Arnold | |
Directed by | John McNaughton | |
Edited by | Elena Maganini | |
Composition by | Robert McNaughton, Ken Hale & Steven A. Jones | |
Produced by | John McNaughton, Lisa Dedmond & Steven A. Jones | |
Director of Photography: | Charlie Lieberman | |
Executive Production by | Malik B. Ali & Waleed B. Ali |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 10/10 --
It is unspeakably unpleasant, and it is almost perfect.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
The director's artistry overshadows his grind house titillations, though they're still to be found aplenty...not just grim and gross or even disturbing; it's hurtful.
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Brooklyn Magazine
Rating: 5/5 --
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer has a creepy, city-after-dark overtone, an existential chill. It carries a true grindhouse whiff while staking its claim as art.
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 3/4 --
McNaughton's direction combines a strict social realism with a cool, Fritz Langian sense of pre-determination, while his work with actors has the improvisational freshness of a John Cassavetes.
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Chicago Tribune
...Rooker captures a psychopath's charisma in a film as raw as a fresh blade wound. -- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is as fine a film as it is a brutally disturbing one.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
In a world in which eight nearly identical Friday the 13th movies offer the adventures of Jason the ax-murderer as entertainment for teen-agers, maybe we do need this sobering alternative.
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Seattle Times
Product Description:
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.
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.
Keywords:
Cult Film
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Psychos
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Killer
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Murder
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Disturbing
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Theatrical Release
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Crime
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Serial Killers
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Essential Cinema
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