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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is an effective, chilling profile of a killer that is sure to shock and disturb.
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[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. April 21, 2020 | Full Review…
[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.
Richard Corliss
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. September 16, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
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.
John Hartl
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. August 12, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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.
Jay Boyar
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. August 12, 2013 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
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.
Desmond Ryan
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. August 12, 2013 | Full Review…
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.
Terrence Rafferty
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is as fine a film as it is a brutally disturbing one. August 12, 2013 | Full Review…
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is as fine a film as it is a brutally disturbing one.
Sheila Benson
Combining raw realism and commentary on violent media, McNaughton closes the gap between fictional slasher horror. May 7, 2019 | Full Review…
Combining raw realism and commentary on violent media, McNaughton closes the gap between fictional slasher horror.
C.H. Newell
A disturbing, realistic film loosely based on Henry Lee Lucas that also questions our relationship to violence in media. One of the best horrors of the 1980s. May 5, 2019 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
A disturbing, realistic film loosely based on Henry Lee Lucas that also questions our relationship to violence in media. One of the best horrors of the 1980s.
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. May 17, 2017 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
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.
Rob Gonsalves
It is unspeakably unpleasant, and it is almost perfect. December 5, 2016 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
It is unspeakably unpleasant, and it is almost perfect.
Tim Brayton
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. November 9, 2016 | Full Review…
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.
Henry Stewart
It resonates with nightmarish energies, as if possessed by a malevolent quality that keeps its subject matter piercing in this era of violent saturation. October 15, 2015 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
It resonates with nightmarish energies, as if possessed by a malevolent quality that keeps its subject matter piercing in this era of violent saturation.
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