Excellent, a Must See

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

When the plans to shoot a documentary dropped out, the producers start thinking about a Horror Feature film. The film turned out be a huge success, beyond the expectations of the producers.The film starts with some dead body of females. The sound shows how they were killed. Then the serial killer Henry's life is shown. At around 30 minutes, the reason for his psychic behavior is explained to the audience. Yet, we are curious to know what happens next.The film is loosely based on real incidents. But, it's really hard to learn that real Henry's activities were more dangerous.Terrific acting and great making. An amazing Indie flick. A must watch movie. #KiduMovie

"Henry" has a well deserved cult reputation. The films ability to shock and numb audiences is spoken in tones every time its talked about. The film centres on a loner called Henry,who has murderous impulses. He lives with former prison mate, Otis, who sells drugs to young boys. Otis brings his sister, Becky, as she has left her abusive husband. This makes things complicated ans Otis feels neglected as he thinks Henry and her are getting close. Near the end, everything comes to a head and i wont give away the ending. This is loosely based on a real life killer named Henry Lee Lucas, who claimed to have killed 300 people. Despite its grim subject, this is essential yet disturbing viewing. Killers in other films like Hannibal Lecter are portrayed as anti heroic and quite comic at times.The writers of this film made sure that the tense moments were very effective. And strange thing is that some of the most tense moments have nothing to do with the actual murders being committed. I found the most tense moments were those between Otis and Henrys different personalities clashing or just the fact that you know that these two guys are certified lunatics so you know that any given situation can turn into a real bloodbath, every moment in this movie is just right there on the verge of going completely ballistic. So the intensity levels are high here thanks to some great performances and a solid script. I think it is a masterpiece and creates feelings in the audience that go well beyond any that the huge Hollywood blockbusters could hope to get near to. It is I would say, the most disturbing film I have ever seen (and I've watched many, many horror films) because it works on an entirely different level - these are people you pass in the street, that live near to you. McNaughton offers no explanation as to why the things we watch on the screen happen, they just do - which ultimately makes this more terrifying. I still find this one of the most disturbing, unsettling movies ever made. You haven't seen a really scary movie until you see this movie.Overall rating: 9 out of 10.

The real life evil of convicted killer Henry Lee Lucas has been well documented elsewhere. This film is a semi-fictional account, based on Lucas' "confessions" ... for what they're worth. In the film, Henry lives with his ex-prison buddy Otis, and Otis' sister Becky, played well by Tracy Arnold. The setting is Chicago. The historical time period is unclear.Most, though not all, of the murders take place off screen, mercifully. It's still, at times, a grizzly affair. Much of the film is like a diary, in that we see Henry, Otis, and Becky engaged in slow, lengthy, pointless conversations, amid drab surroundings. Oh it's grim.This is supposed to be a character study. But there is no arc. Henry's robotic life is so monomaniacal as to preclude dramatic variation or change. What little substantive material there is could have been presented in thirty minutes.The film's pace is slow. Scenes are very, very drawn-out. Screen time is consumed with characters eating grim meals, playing cheap cards, and driving around in a rundown old car. It's as if the scene on page 62 of the script could have been switched with the scene on page 16, and viewers would never know the difference. It's all just an unending grim ... sameness.The film's images are grainy. Lighting is subdued. Music is appropriately eerie and creepy, but manipulative.Real-life serial killers are too diverse in backgrounds and personalities for this film to offer any generalized insight. And the film conveys little understanding of Lucas himself. Sometimes a film that is grim can be entertaining or insightful. This one isn't. It's just pointless.

I saw this film on its premiere in 1990, and watched it again tonight. Twenty-three years later, the film is still just as shocking and disturbing. I remember sitting in the theater in 1990, and some people actually laughed at some of the scenes, but it was the uncomfortable laughter of disbelief, for example, in the scene were Henry and Otis are sitting in the car and Henry snaps the hooker's neck, and the expression on Leon's face was almost like that of a character from a Goya painting. Or when Henry kills the arrogant TV guy with the hot iron. I guess my point is that there's only one way to get through this awful film: by distancing yourself from the horrible events that happen in it. The death of the family is heartbreaking, but to emphasize Henry's complete detachment from the horror of it, and his inability to comprehend the gravity of what he's done, the entire scene is reduced to a video that Henry and Otis shot on location with a camcorder, as though their victim's lives are nothing more than images on a television screen. It is a remarkable commentary about the imagery of violence in our society, one that holds up even today. This film isn't the fun, colorful controversy that 1967's Bonnie and Clyde was; it is the dark, dreary controversy that reminds us that we are endorsing the horror that happens in it because we're watching the film.I didn't enjoy this film in 1990 and I didn't enjoy it tonight; it is a reflection of our shallow society, and reminds us that evil just happens, and there's nothing you can do about it.