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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. Henry (and Otis) are inspired by Henry Lee Lucas & Ottis Toole.
He was portrayed by Michael Rooker in the first film and by Neil Giuntoli in the second film.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer (1986)[]
- 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.
Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer Part II - Mask of Sanity (1996)[]
- He kills a random woman at the beginning of the sequel with a hammer only for blood lust
- He witnesses a man raping an elderly man at a homeless shelter but does nothing to help him, choosing instead to ignore the scene.
- He stays at Kai's house, where, when Kai's emotionally unstable niece (Louisa) is bullied, Henry attacks the bullies. However, given Henry's sadistic nature, it's likely he only did so for pleasure and to gain the trust of Kai's family.
- When he discovered that Kai and his boss (named Rooter) were burning down buildings to defraud insurance companies, he joined them and burned down his first building to win some money.
- When he and Kai found two squatters in a building they wanted to burn down, Henry tied them up and killed one, while Kai killed the second, both by shooting them with a pistol.
- He made Kai his new accomplice, replacing the incestuous Otis.
- On his way home, Henry beat and stabbed a car window washer to death, breaking his neck simply because he was annoying him, while Kai watched it all.
- When he sees Kai furious about being beaten up by the parents of Louisa's bullies, he convinces him to punch and stab a mechanic to death together.
- When he talks to Louisa, he tells her about Otis and Becky, but he lies, saying that a stranger killed them, when in fact he was the one who did it.
- Henry brutally murders a couple, decapitating the husband with a knife and suffocating the wife with a pillow, causing Kai to briefly fight Henry for the senseless atrocity he has committed.
- When Rooter drugged Henry into a sleep as part of a prank, Henry murdered him by stabbing him in the neck.
- Together with Kai, he killed one of Rooter's employees by strangling him after noticing blood in the room, and then Kai disposed of both bodies.
- When Louisa commits suicide by shooting herself in the head with a pistol in front of everyone because Henry didn't reciprocate her feelings, Henry seems shocked for a few moments, covering his face, but then quickly recovers. He probably just found it strange that someone would commit suicide, without giving it much thought.
- He didn't care about Kai and his wife's cries when Louisa committed suicide.
- He takes the pistol that Louisa used to incapacitate Kai and kill his wife, Cricket.
- He locks everyone's bodies in a basement, douses the house with gasoline, and sets it on fire, even with Kai still alive, before escaping.
in general[]
- Henry is a cold, methodical, hypocritical, evil, and treacherous killer who won't hesitate for a second to kill his accomplices just to eliminate witnesses, using his charm to get closer to his victims.
- Unfortunately, he gets away with it at the end of the duology, possibly continuing with more murders. It's unknown if he will ever be arrested or brought to justice for all the crimes he has committed.
External Links[]
- Henry on the Villains Wiki
