12/27/2022 0 Comments Henry portrait of a serial killer cast![]() ![]() The MPAA infamously slapped it with an X rating for “overall tone”, which only attracted more attention. After playing at the ’89 Telluride Film Festival, where it was highly touted by filmmaker Errol Morris, HENRY became a minor sensation, attracting many admiring notices…and a fair amount of controversy (see the 1994 Italian film CIAO DIARIO, which contains a fantasy scene in which its protagonist tortures a film critic who dared give HENRY a rave review). ![]() Serial killer biopics are a dime a dozen these days, but in 1986 there was nothing quite like HENRY and it was shelved by its backers until 1989 (distribution troubles have continued to plague McNaughton, particularly on his subsequent films THE BORROWER and NORMAL LIFE). McNaughton ended up directing, co-producing and scripting the movie, entitled HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER and inspired by a TV profile of the infamous mass murderer Henry Lee Lucas. Back in the mid-1980s first time director John McNaughton was given a $100,000 budget by Maljack Productions (an early incarnation of MPI Video) to make a horror movie. ![]()
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