Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Mm-hmm.

Uh, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

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They became fascinated with the likes of serial killers.

So look at Twin Peaks, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, the book American Psycho hits bookstores in 1991, and then of course we have Silence of the Lambs.

So it really was this time where these sort of serial killer characters were getting this A-list status, if you will, across movies, television, and literature.

So after a decade where horror monsters became increasingly fantastical, suddenly the scariest monsters on screen looked like a person you might actually meet.

I forget what it was called previously, but they would show a lot of horror like at night and things like that.

And I'd seen like Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer around this time at the Angelica.

I'm talking about Basket Case 2.

Boy, Frank Henlotter, what this was so popular because my generation had rented Basket Case four or five years earlier on VHS, thought it was the dumbest, stupidest shit ever B show.

And what Mike, there's an interesting bit in the book where Mike, he talks about a conversation he had with...

I can't remember the filmmaker's name, the guy who made Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer.

And he, this John...

John McNaughton.

Oh, she's in for it, dude.

Her friend is also being assaulted, right? Her friend is fucking, like, mangled when she finds her in the bathroom and she is like, it's like Henry Portrait of a fucking serial killer.

Yeah, it's pieces and chunks and bits everywhere at that point.

Holy shit, dude.

Michael Rooker.

Michael Rooker had been in Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer and maybe JFK.

He wasn't

incredibly

He's...

It's Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer vibes in a way of, "No, I'm gonna get other people to do these things for me, and then the situation's over and I move to the next group of," you know.

So it's like, oh, that's a trip.

And-