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In reply to the discussion: Antonio Sabato Jr says he's been blacklisted in Hollywood [View all]Person 2713
(3,263 posts)Big guts and gore though
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry:_Portrait_of_a_Serial_Killer
Critics who liked the film tended to focus on the sense of newness it brought to the saturated horror genre. Roger Ebert, for example, called Henry "a very good film," a "low-budget tour de force," and wrote that the film attempts to deal "honestly with its subject matter, instead of trying to sugar-coat violence as most 'slasher' films do."[7] Elliott Stein of The Village Voice called it "the best film of the year...recalls the best work of Cassavetes." Siskel & Ebert called it "a powerful and important film, brilliantly acted and directed." Dave Kehr of the Chicago Tribune said it was "one of the ten best films of the year...combines Fritz Lang's sense of predetermination with the freshness of John Cassavetes."[16] In a review from 1989, Variety wrote the film "marks the arrival of a major film talent" in McNaughton.[17]
In 2013, a group of Belgian researchers praised the film for its very realistic depiction of a clinical psychopath.[18]