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| “ | Let's me and you go for a ride, Otis. | „ |
| ~ Henry's most famous line. |
Henry is the titular protagonist villain of the 1986 highly controversial horror film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and its 1996 sequel Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part II.
He is a deranged serial killer who enjoys killing people with his friend Otis unprovoked for the sake of it, excusing his actions to different, yet unjustified, reasons. While Henry was based loosely on real life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, most of the events in the movie are either fictional or heavily altered.
He was portrayed by Michael Rooker in the first film and by Neil Giuntoli in the second film.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He killed his abusive mother when he was young, and was sent to prison for seven years for it.
- He murders seven more people
- After taking Otis out with him, he kills two hookers the two had picked up, one by strangling them to death, and the other by snapping her neck, before convincing Otis to believe in his social darwinistic views of murdering others, and tells Otis to join him in his murder sprees.
- He brutally kills a man by stabbing him, while Otis strangles him with a cord, with Henry smashing a TV on the man's head, which Otis then turns on, electrocuting him to death.
- He randomly pulled a stranger over on the roadside and killed them with a shotgun.
- With the help of his fellow cellmate Otis, he filmed many of his crimes. One of the examples is when they broke into an random house and killed a family while filming it.
- While he did stop Otis from raping a dead woman, it wasn't out of any sympathy, but to leave less evidence.
- Towards the end of the film, he saved Otis' sister Becky from being raped by him and killed Otis, who was his friend. Even so, next day, he dropped Becky's bloodstained suitcase, implying he killed Becky nonetheless.
- While he had a rough childhood which he was abused by his mother, none of it justifies his actions and besides, his tragedy becomes moot as he keeps telling different versions of his past.
- While he was disgusted towards Otis for being a pervert towards Becky, and a rapist, it was only for pragmatic reasons, as Otis risked leaving behind DNA evidence when he wanted to molest corpses and trying to rape others would leave a living witness compared to murdering them, giving Henry more trouble then Otis is worth.
- Despite seemingly caring about Becky, he loses that redeeming factor when he kills her at the end of the film just to leave one less witness behind, while also not really meaning it when he tells Becky he loves her too, after she expressed her feelings towards him.
External Links[]
- Henry on the Villains Wiki
