Late Night Cult Classics

Friday, November 21st and Saturday, November 22nd at 10:00 p.m.
Admission: $5.00

LATE NIGHT CULT CLASSIC PRESENTED BY BOOKMANS
http://www.bookmans.com

"One of the 20 scariest movies of all time." - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"HENRY is an excellent case study in horror, with a knockout performance by Michael Rooker ... contains some of the most disturbing mayhem ever shot on celluloid. A definite 'must-see' for any true horror fan." - HOUSE OF HORRORS.COM

HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, loosely based on the case of Henry Lee Lucas, a confessed serial killer, is a terrifyingly intimate journey into the twisted life of a murderous psychotic.
As the blank-eyed Henry (Michael Rooker) drifts from place to place, he selects victims at random, slaughters them, and captures the brutality on videotape. When he is joined by his deranged roommate, a loudmouthed ex-convict named Otis (Tom Towles), the almost unfathomably malevolent acts multiply. John McNaughton's film, in the tradition of such classic studies of homicidal personality as PEEPING TOM and TAXI DRIVER, goes further than both of these movies in its flat refusal to tell the killer's story on anything other than the killer's terms. McNaughton is able to present the world Henry aimlessly traverses as Henry sees it--almost unendurably bleak and meaningless--and in doing so he allows his film to go as deep into the nightmarish mind of a killer as anything ever committed to celluloid.
Hugely controversial upon its initial release in 1986, the film was slapped with the dreaded X Rating by the MPAA (in the days before NC-17), and was instead released without a rating, leading to a spotty (and years-long) release consisting primarily of midnight showings in arthouse theaters, which eventually cultivated a strong cult following for the film prior to its subsequent release on home video. A nightmarish classic.