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As the most ebullient character, he has to walk a fine line to evoke OtisвЂ™s offensive heartiness without violating the total conviction the movie needs to pull off its central trope.

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Michael Rooker naturally garlanded most of the attention for his still, quiet work as Henry, but Tracy Arnold as Becky is the most believable and normal character, which is a hard job to pull off, and Tom Towles, as her repulsive brother Otis, really pushes personal unpleasantness as far as it can go in a performance thatвЂ™s not so much free of vanity as wallowing in obscenity.

The performances are marvellously restrained and naturalistic. Many of the killings are presented as crime scenes (a little fetishised, itвЂ™s true) with only the sound of the murder itself echoing, disembodied, on the soundtrack. His movie is commendably free of overt sensationalism and slasher clichГ©, which sets it apart from nearly everything made on the theme of serial homicide in the decades since it appeared.

McNaughton had been commissioned to make nothing more than a cheapjack exploiter, and he chose something more ambitious, a character study and an evocation of the deadened, affectless world of the psychopath. Still, the film has an undeniable power in its merciless bleakness. Never mind that Henry Lee Lucas, the allegedly wildly prolific real-life killer McNaughton took as inspiration, was in all probability a fantasist who confessed to dozens of unsolved killings because he liked visitors while he was in jail. This sounds maybe a little cold-blooded and opportunistic, and maybe it is: it seems to suggest that those who see the film as a deep insight into the mind of a murderer could be wasting their time, since all the filmmaker wants to do is scare you, and he realised that being as convincing and low-key as possible was a good way to do it. John McNaughton characterised Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, his acclaimed, controversial 1986 thriller, as a horror film using the technique of realism to achieve its effect on the audience. Waxwork is proud to present the complete soundtrack and score on vinyl for the very first time since 1990.Cast: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles Jones, and Ken Hale features primitive synth drones, ambient electronic cues, hard pounding drum machines, warbling synth bass, bar room jukebox rock 'n roll, and dialogue tracks. It was shot in Chicago, Illinois on 16mm in less than a month with a budget of $110,000.The score by Robert McNaughton, Steven A. It was subsequently picked up for a limited release in 1990 in an unrated version. The film was rated 'X' by the MPAA, further increasing it's reputation as a controversial movie. It premiered in 1986 to successful showings on the film festival circuit, but with it's positive critical attention, the film also attracted controversy. The movie was filmed in 1985 but had difficulty finding a distributor.

The movie is loosely based on convinced real-life serial killers Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Toole. Starring Michael Rooker and Tom Towles, HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER is a 1986 American psychological horror crime film directed and co-written by John McNaughton. Available for the first time since 1990, this deluxe vinyl release features the complete soundtrack with score cues by Robert McNaughton, Steven A. Waxwork Records is excited to present HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

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