Year: 1986
Duration: 01:19:16
Directed by: John McNaughton
Actors: Mary Demas, Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold
Language: English
Country: USA
Also known as: Henry – Pioggia di sangue, Henry – Portrait d’un tueur, Henry – en massmördare, Henry Lee Lucas – sarjamurhaaja, Henry, portrait d’un serial killer, Henry, retrat d’un assassí, Henry, retrato de un asesino, Henry, to portraito enos dolofonou, Henry: A Sombra de Um Assassino, Henry: Egy sorozatgyilkos portréja, Henry: portret serijskog ubice, Henry: portret seryjnego zabójcy, Retrato de um Assassino
Description: A lonely drifter Henry involves his dullish prison cellmate Otis in series of senseless murders. Choosing his victims random, every time they invent new ways of killing. Otis’s sister Becky is coming to Chicago to visit and falls in love with Henry.
Review: Films about homicidal maniacs have always been popular and plentiful – and can sometimes give the impression that the filmmakers and the audience, as if spellbound victim themselves with a kind of sweet fear inexorably drawn to the intimidating, but in a series of incomprehensible images entailing criminals. After all, those seem like quiet and unobtrusive look quite ordinary people, and does not stand out from the crowd, but they have some almost diabolical power to influence their potential targets of violence. They – the absolute generation of world evil, but sometimes the best tapes suddenly slips inexplicable existential despair manifests a kind of mark of Cain of the human race, to see what makes these otrodjas features of the fallen angels of Satan.
And about unique in many ways, paintings by American director John McNaughton sparked fierce debate about the permissibility of depictions of violence on the screen – not just after creation and the whole four years of waiting, when the film will appropriate age rating, and thereby give permission to release the official rental. For the first time in the video version of the film was shown at the Chicago Film Festival in September 1986, and the shooting took place in late 1985 in just 28 days in the same Chicago and was worth only $ 125,000. Then she drove to different festivals, usually shown on late night viewing, and the audience sharply divided into fierce opponents and ardent supporters.
Some thought that the authors simply replicate the evil on the screen, while others, including the recognized masters of cinema (among them was Martin Scorsese), argued that the 36-year-old debutant John McNaughton (previously he had worked in advertising and has directed music videos) – Triumph cinematic art. This picture, according to a poll of critics of several prestigious U.S. newspaper, hit the top ten film events. But later, when she had not received as a result of any restriction, went into the theater, passion still not abated, and their echoes can be heard as far away from America, for example, in Italy (at all clever filmmaker Nanni Moretti fought in the his “Dear Diary” is on this tape that bears, in his opinion, the real harm to the whole of humanity).
The film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was based, among other things, on the true story of the Texas mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas and even artfully styled documentary reportage – so some gullible and impressionable viewers could really take all will tell the true chronicle of events, nothing is indistinguishable from those that often ( and sometimes – with no less naturalism) are shown on television. A singularity and fundamental artistic significance of the efforts of John McNaughton, who was supported by the operator Charlie Libermenom in the first place – debuted in the film Michael Rooker (some people thought that the former dustman at all abnormal human!), Is a totally incomprehensible Low Life , literally from the bottom of life, takes swift and elusive breakthrough to the fundamental problems of human existence.
Automatism tragic existence serial killer who like death itself put on the conveyor flow, as a kind of puppet performing unknown will be allowed in the feeling of unbearable loneliness and utter abandonment of rights in an alien world. Henry, of course, the messenger of Lucifer, but even in his dull and inexplicable behavior itself is a terrible God-fighting challenge, a kind of Byronic melancholy apostate Cain unfolded over the abyss of the universe. It is curious that the next job McNaughton was just fantastic version is almost the same story – “Alien in someone else’s body” (1990).
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