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HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER. Running into Henry is like winning a satanic lottery; you die, at random. John McNaughton's icy essay in depravity, made for peanuts in Chicago four years ago, forces the moviegoer to stare into the face of evil...
...what if X also stands for exemplary, exciting, extraordinary? Such is the case with two new films -- The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer -- given the X tag. Their distributors have rightly decided to release these strong, disturbing melodramas as is, uncut and without the MPAA's rating. They will strut naked into the marketplace, allowing adult audiences to judge for themselves whether this is porno...
Henry, made four years ago in Chicago and just now released, is loosely based on the confessions of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. The film does show some lurid vignettes of a master murderer busy at his work -- a terrorized family here, a plugged-in TV salesman there. But director John McNaughton, who wrote the spare script with Richard Fire, shows few of Henry's dozen or so crimes. Instead he reveals the victims, at the scenes of their deaths, in slow zoom shots accompanied by elegiac music. He is a coroner with a touch of the poet...
...Florida embattled Republican Governor Bob Martinez has been appearing in campaign commercials that show the face of serial killer Ted Bundy while Martinez takes credit for signing 90 death warrants in his first term...
...superb show of the artist's serial works of the 1890s -- depicting, among other things, grainstacks, poplars and Rouen Cathedral -- proves how much more than "only...