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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Directed by
John McNaughton
Not Rated
1986
82m
Horror
,
Thriller
,
and more
7.0
89%
71%
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Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
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Cast of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Michael Rooker
Henry
Tracy Arnold
Becky
Tom Towles
Otis
Mary Demas
Dead Woman / Dead Prostitute / Hooker #1
Anne Bartoletti
Waitress
Elizabeth Kaden
Dead Couple - Wife
Ted Kaden
Dead Couple - Husband
Denise Sullivan
Floating Woman
Anita Ores
Mall Shopper #1
Megan Ores
Mall Shopper #2
Cheri Jones
Mall Shopper #3
Monica Anne O'Malley
Mall Victim
Bruce Quist
Husband
Erzsebet Sziky
Hitchhiker
David Katz
Henry’s Boss
John Scafidi
Kid with Football #1
Benjamen Passman
Kid with Football #2
Flo Spink
Woman in Cadillac
Kurt Naebig
High School Jock
Kristin Finger
Hooker #2
Lily Monkus
Woman in Beauty Shop
Ray Atherton
Fence
Eric Young
Parole Officer
Rick Paul
Shooting Victim
Peter Van Wagner
Bum #1
Tom McKearn
Bum #2
Frank Coranado
Bum #3
Lisa Temple
Murdered Family - Wife
Brian Graham
Murdered Family - Husband
Sean Ores
Murdered Family - Son
Pamela Fox
Hair Stylist
Waleed B. Ali
Store Clerk
Donna Dunlap
Dog Walker
John McNaughton
Director / Writer / Producer
Richard Fire
Writer
Steven A. Jones
Producer
Lisa Dedmond
Producer
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer Ratings & Reviews
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
[Director John McNaughton] shows few of Henry's dozen or so crimes. Instead he reveals the victims, at the scenes of their deaths, in slow zoom shots accompanied by elegiac music. He is a coroner with a touch of the poet.
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
"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.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
It is unspeakably unpleasant, and it is almost perfect.
Brooklyn Magazine
Henry Stewart
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.
Cinemaphile.org
David Keyes
It resonates with nightmarish energies, as if possessed by a malevolent quality that keeps its subject matter piercing in this era of violent saturation.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
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.
Tulsa World
John Wooley
A powerful, original look at the hopeless urban underclass in the American city, where lost people nibble at the garbage of our culture -- in a kind of perverse application of the "trickle-down" theory -- hating themselves and us all the while.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
The film is an honest and disturbing attempt to come to grips with the sort of modern horror that we must -- more urgently every day -- try to understand.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
The difference between John McNaughton's incredibly chilling film and the usual serving of screen carnage is the difference between the mind of a murderer and the cynical and manipulative depiction of mindless murder.
The New Yorker
Terrence Rafferty
Sure, it's compelling; the nature of the material guarantees that. But it doesn't seem to be telling us much more than that the world is a scary place and murder is ugly. We knew those things. This is tabloid chic.
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is as fine a film as it is a brutally disturbing one.
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
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.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Certainly not for everyone, but if slasher movies are your cup of tea this is a lot better than most, and the use of Chicago locations is especially effective.
Variety
Daniel M. Kimmel
[T]his is a movie that will anger and frighten audiences... Many will also find this one of the most impressive film debuts of the '80s.
Slant Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp
The film doesn't so much bring us closer to the serial murderer as it reminds us of our culpability as spectators.
New York Times
Caryn James
Mr. McNaughton's observations are so chilling and precise that they gain some artistic stature even when they cross the line that makes the audience voyeurs and accomplices.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
This film gives off a dark chill that follows you all the way home.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A low-budget tour de force that provides an unforgettable portrait of the pathology of a man for whom killing is not a crime but simply a way of passing time and relieving boredom.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
The emptiness in Henry seems like an artistic convenience or, worse, an evasion. What we suspect, finally, is that the deficiencies belong more to the artist than to his subject.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The fact that Henry is affectless on the surface but commits exploitation-movie mayhem on the side is, by now, less an unsettling revelation than a rote banality.
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