Synopsis
Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry: "the guy next door" and the serial killer.
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Cast
- Michael RookerHenry
- Tracy ArnoldBecky
- Tom TowlesOtis
- Mary DemasDead Woman / Dead Prostitute / Hooker #1
- Anne BartolettiWaitress
- Elizabeth KadenDead Couple - Wife
- Ted KadenDead Couple - Husband
- Denise SullivanFloating Woman
- Anita OresMall Shopper #1
- Megan OresMall Shopper #2
Recommandations
- 100
Los Angeles Times
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is as fine a film as it is a brutally disturbing one. - 100
Philadelphia Inquirer
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer contrasts the mundane and the domestic with the appalling. The tone doesn't vary at all, and it's not a pretty picture, but movies that burn their images into your consciousness like this one are very, very rare. It is admittedly hard to look, but this is a portrait that demands to be seen. - 88
Slant Magazine
The film doesn't so much bring us closer to the serial murderer as it reminds us of our culpability as spectators. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
The film uses a slice-of-life approach to create a docudrama of chilling horror. - 88
Rolling Stone
McNaughton has made a film of clutching terror that's meant to heighten our awareness instead of dulling it. At the end, Henry is still out there among us. And he's no B-movie monster in a hockey mask. He could be the guy next door. This film gives off a dark chill that follows you all the way home. - 80
TV Guide Magazine
No film in recent memory has tapped into primal, visceral fear as HENRY does, with its vision of a depraved world that seems at once too horrible to exist and too realistic to be denied. - 80
Empire
A spare and authentic screenplay unfolds in an almost documentary-like enviroment, there are no histrionics and the acting is of the highest order, but the film shocks and disturbs as much for its morally questionable purpose as in its ugly subject. - 75
Baltimore Sun
The movie rides the very thin line between art and trash, between exploitation and illumination. It's true, certainly, that it takes one into a universe of such moral squalor that one feels tainted afterward.
