Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer (DVD, 2005, 20th Anniversary Edition - 2 Discs)

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"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. Adding to all of this is Otis' sister Becky (Tracy Arnold), who arrives for a visit and becomes attracted to Henry. 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. Originally filmed on a shoestring budget of just over $100,000 in 1985 and not released to theaters until 1990, this groundbreaking film accomplishment from director John McNaughton has all of the trademarks of a great film with superb story-telling and character development. While many films in this genre go for slaher effects with villainous individuals portrayed as over-the-top, this movie keeps its central character on a completely human level, without having to resort to a wildly overblown script to deliver the goods. It is also one of the best art-house films of its kind.