Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer (1999)

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Rating: X

Release Date: Jan 1, 1999

Running Time: 83 mins. (V)

Running Time: 90 mins. (original)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, Tracy Arnold, Mary Demas, Anne Bartoletti, Elizabeth Kaden, Ted Kaden, Denise Sullivan, Anita Ores, Megan Ores

director: John Hugh McNaughton

Story of mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas.

February 13, 2001

It sounds like a bad TV movie. Or one of those grind-house rip-and-renders. Or at the very least like something you don't waste time reading or thinking about. Bear with me. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a stinging chiller with a provocative past and a potentially bright future.

It came from Chicago. First-time feature director John McNaughton started shooting this graphic tale of a mass murderer back in 1985. He had a cast of talented unknowns -- drawn mostly from Chicago's Organic…