Review this by Sasha Slaughter

Movie review time!! This week Zane and I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. The movie is about Henry Lee Lucas, who was once listed as America's most prolific serial killer. Don't forget to check out Zanes other article about true horror movies.

The movie came out in 1986 (it's older than me!) and was directed by John McNaughton. It starts out with several scenes of dead bodies, all women. It didn't show the women being killed, but it's pretty obvious they were murdered by Henry. And one particular scene was gross, a dead half naked hooker with what looked like a coke bottle coming out her face....ewww! He often stalked his victims until he was able to get them alone to kill them. He lived with a man named Otis, and his sister Becky that came to live them after being abused by her husband. Otis confided in Becky that Henry admitted to killing his mom, and Henry later told Becky that he did. While Henry and Otis were out one night they picked up two hookers and went into a back alley and Henry proceeded to break both of the hookers necks and dump them into the alley. That was when Otis found out that Henry was killing people.

After spazzing out because he couldn't get good reception on the tv, Otis kicks it and breaks it so he and Henry go to see this guy in a garage to buy a tv. He doesn't offer them a fair price and they decide to leave until the guy gets smart. Henry stabs the guy in the hand and then in chest and then smashes a tv over the guys head and tells Otis to plug the tv in, which electrocutes the guy. Eeeek! After that Henry starts to teach Otis how to find people to kill by pretending the car was broken down and when someone stopped to help, Otis shot them. (My gun is bigger than your gun!...ha.) They took a video camera from the dead tv guy and filmed themselves killing a family in their home.

Becky decides that it's time for her to move back home and asks Henry if he wants to go with her and he says he'll think about it. He takes her out to dinner and they come home and Otis is passed out so Becky takes Henry into her room and starts undressing him when Otis walks in. Henry leaves to get cigarettes and comes back to find Otis raping Becky (his own sister....PERV!) and he throws him off of here. They start to fight and Becky grabs a comb and stabs Otis in the eye and then Henry stabbed him in the chest and killed him. Becky freaks out and Henry takes Otis into the bathroom, drains his blood, and dismembers him to he can fit him into trash bags. They pack their stuff and leave and on the way out of town they stop to dump Otis's body into the river.

On they way to the motel Becky says that she loves Henry and he says he loves her too (Well actually he said "I guess I love you too"..how romantic!..sarcasm) and they rent a room and talk for a while before he suggests that they go to bed. In the morning Henry leaves the hotel alone. He pulls over onto the side of the road and pulls Becky's suitcase from the trunk of the car and puts it on the ground, gets in the car and drives away. There is blood coming from the suitcase, so it's obviously Becky's body inside of the suitcase (so much for love huh??).

Thats it for Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. It was kind of hard to review really. There really wasn't much of a plot to it. Overall I'd give it a 2.5. The acting was ok, there was some blood, a few murder scenes, a rape scene (they didn't really show much though) a little nudity ( boobs and a butt) and the total body count was 15. There was alot of death, but not many actual death scenes. So there you have it! Until next week, take care and check back next friday!!