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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
1986 · Film · 83 min
Directed by John McNaughton
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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“private areas”
Really? Were they unclothed? If not, perhaps there’s a different message here that you may have missed?
Go watch “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer”, which I believe you’ll find on Netflix too. You’ll totally cheer along when they murder the fat man, who completely deserved it BTW. Though if you’re still cheering when they watch the home video they made of themselves murdering that entire family, then you may have missed the point of that film too.
Good film is a mirror on real life. And if real life doesn’t make your skin crawl, it’s either because you haven’t realized you’re a participant in it too… or because you actually enjoy it.
Oh God, Threads. The article is right, that really is one of the bleakest movies ever made, right up there with Grave of the Fireflies and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. I didn't even encounter it until long after the Cold War had ended, and it still made a huge impression on me; I can only imagine how people viewing it in Britain in 1984, at the height of Reagan-era confrontationalism, must have felt.