Henry: Portait Of A Serial Killer

[The Mothman]

I just saw this movie a couple days ago, and I thought it was great. Henry was a total bad ass, and it was probably the best serial killer movie ive ever seen. Any other movies like this? with like some loner serial killer bad ass?

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally posted by The Mothman
...and it was probably the best serial killer movie ive ever seen. Any other movies like this? with like some loner serial killer bad ass?

For sure dude I totally agree with that. That fuckin' film is just chilling and totally fucking raw like movies should be.
Confessions of a Serial Killer is a good one to check out. It was made a little while before HENRY and based on the same serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. McNaughton's film borrowed heavily from it and IS better but theirs some great moments and is a more factual account of the real life killings and deviancy.
The 1974 film Deranged is fully worth you time aswell. Roberts Blossom gives a real fuckin' quirkey, psychopathic and blackly funny preformance of the Necrophile Ezra Cobb (based upon Ed Gein). Great piece of 70s horror cinema in a similar vein to TCM, Eaten Alive and Motel Hell.
Probably more in the Slasher category of these type of films but Lustig's Maniac is a really down serial killer film. Really cool journey into a pyschopaths deluded perceptions of reality. A totally exploitative gory freak show but written and excuted amazingly, kinda think HENRY crossed with The Burning. I enjoy Lustig's film Relentless with Judd Nelson. Definatley the butt of a lot of peoples jokes upon release this film is worth rediscovering cause its definatley a underated gem. This film does have the "how to join the FBI/Police/become a laywer" aspect to it which ruins a lot of these stlye of films (particulary Friedkin's Rampage) but Lustig's sleaze cinema style delivers us a another tweaked out raw serial killer flick.
The 2001 film by Freeway director Matthew Bright Ted Bundy impressed me aswell. Unrelentingly pyschopathic this film is a great addition to the genre the will make you laugh (definatley a film for black humoured people) and shock and disgust you. The nihistic selfishness and brutality of the main protagonist ozzes off the screen resulting in a unsettling experience. Another example of how movies SHOULD be fuckin' made.
These are some I dig anyways and if you're looking for raw cinema like HENRY check out (not horror films but whatever....) Bad Lieutenant, God's Lonely Man, Romper Stomper, Drugstore Cowboy, and the Driller Killer.

[MiskatonicKitty]

Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer was a great movie. The first time I watched it I was disappointed because I had been hearing for so long what a shocking, disturbing, gory movie it was... I guess I had hyped it up so much all I could really think was that's it? But then I got to seeing what an interesting movie it really was. Very gritty. The actor who played Henry... wow, really nailed it. He WAS the character. Just a great movie.

The only movie off the top of my head that I can really compare to Henry is Maniac. The tone is very similar --- same sort of gritty, nihilistic feeling, and following a likewise disturbed individual.

[noctuary]

Henry is an excellent serial killer film, one of the best. I first saw it when I was a little younger and I failed to understand what all the hype was about. When I rewatched it not too long ago, however, I was blown away. I was expecting a slasher movie, rather than a character study of a mad and violent man. For something a little similar, Maniac (as has been suggested already) and Man Bites Dog fit the bill nicely.

[stubbornforgey]

yes...a new one to be released soon and i cant remember the name of it even though i was watching the trailer last night.
All i know is the guy they hired for the movie (once makeup was applied)
had that eerie sense of being the serial killers identical twin. (true story apparently)

[zwoti]

Originally posted by noctuary
Man Bites Dog fit the bill nicely.

nothing wrong with some belgium black comedy

[Elvis_Christ]

I love how he gives the old lady a heart attack by frightening her to save bullets :) I haven't watched that film for years

[meetthecreeper]

I just watched this again today, first time on DVD. My tape of it has worn its welcome.

IMO this is the Citizen Kane of serial killer films.

[gorefreak]

If you wanna see something that follows Henry much more closely, look for "Henry, Confessions Of A Serial Killer". It's not gory, and it's almost in documentary form, but it goes into a much more detailed depth of what happened and the decriptions of the people that were killed.