Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer

Pros: Great performances, especially Michael Rooker, Good direction
Cons: subject matter may be too intense for the squeamish

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer: Greycat Films/MPI Home Video
Rating: USA: Unrated/ UK: 18/ France: -16/ Germany: 18/ Australia: R/ Netherlands: 16/ Sweden: 15/ Ireland: 18/ Finland: K-18

Forget SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, forget SEVEN--If...

Pros: This movie is just amazing; I dare you to find actors as believable as these
Cons: TOO realistic, morally objectionable for most viewers; personally I don't think it has any flaws

HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER is a film that defied the odds. It had a budget a fraction of a fraction of the budget of a Hollywood film, which is evident in that there is a minimum of elaborate special effects. Sitting on a shelf since its...

Pros: A raw, compelling serial killer chiller is given a top-notch DVD package.
Cons: Maybe it was my reaction, but it took me three years to post this review.

Otis: "Where you going?"Henry: "Nowhere - you wanna come?"This review is an entry in Captain D's The Good Movies Epi Guide 2 write-off: http://www.epinions.com/conten t_5245804676.There's something to ...

Pros: performance, direction, script
Cons: really not suitable for any human audience

There are a couple of reasons why you shouldn’t ask a dim-witted redneck loner if he’s killed his momma. The first and most obvious of these reasons is that he might tell you.

About fifteen minutes into John McNaughton’s deeply disturbing...

Pros: I cannot in good conscience give one
Cons: the gore and senselessness of the movie

susidee thinks she has been in a too jovial mood here of late so she decided to trip over to Blockbuster and visit the horror selections. Well, my first ditty ‘Mosquito' has already been put to bed (those other two sick movies I swear I saw on TV), and...

Pros: Everything, Absolutely Brilliant
Cons: None

I had heard about this film for quite some time. Finding it wasn't exactly the easiest task I've ever had to take on, but once I did, it was well worth it. What do you get when you mix masterful directing, acting, chilling scenes, and realistic feel, ...

Pros: Disturbingly real acting, great camera work, very well-conceived.
Cons: Jarring, graphic violence. Not for the meek.

It is quite remarkable that two men who murdered so many innocents could be so forgotten by such a media-ridden society.
Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole stabbed, shot, raped on videotape, and mutilated over 200 people during a rather impromptu...

Pros: I don't know
Cons: disturbs you deeply

So me and my roommate were out at the video store one night. After wandering around for about an hour, we conferred in the Sci-Fi section.

"You see anything?"
"I can't decide, you?"
"No."

...

Pros: creepy, real, and creates empathy for a monster
Cons: stomach turning gore

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, directed by John McNaughton (Wild Things), is very loosely based on the exploits of real serial Killer Henry Lee Lucas.

Lucas came to great notoriety when he claimed to have murdered over one...

Pros: Interesting characters, engaging script
Cons: A bit slow at times, I wanted them to explain more about the ending

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer opens with a silent bang as the camera swoops over the bodies of different people, giving us a small, but proficient enough glimpse at their various wounds. One of the most interesting things about this movie (most...

Pros: Redefines Evil
Cons: Not for the faint of heart

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yuck.


Wow.


Okay, with that said.... The orderly came in and gave me a Thorazine shot, and tightened up my dinner...

Pros: Amazing performances from the characters.
Cons: Brutal.

Ex-stripper Becky (Arnold) shacks up with her brother Otis (Towles) to escape a bad home situation and ends up meeting his roommate, Henry (Rooker). They hit it off, but there's tension with Otis in the home. Otis makes some innappropriate advances ...

Pros: depicts the mind of a serial killer well, dramatic and suspenseful
Cons: violent, grotesque murder scenes, very graphic

This movie from the gory beginning to the gory end did shock me. It tells a twisted and not entirely factual story of Henry Lee Lucas, one of the most prolific serial killers in our nation's history. Well, he'd actually be the most prolific if he wasn't ...

Pros: Well.....
Cons: No cons, but don't see it if you loved Bambi last week...

This is a study case in making the most horrifying movie ever. Most horror-flicks are led by cheap-o cliches to maximize audiences in which the killings can be foretold in the movie's first 5 minutes. This, however, is the ugly truth about how sick and...

Pros: An accurate look at a sick mind
Cons: none

This is not a movie that you can go rent and have a quiet movie night at home with. This is a movie that was based after the life of a true serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. This movie shows how sick and disturbed the mind of a deviant sexual predator is....