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31 Days of Horror (Halloween) 2019 (31 movies items)" Date: 10/9/2019 Viewed: Blu-Ray Re-watch Note: This movie is still a fantastic horror movie for being so dark, gritty, and raw. This movie still gives me the chills because they handle everything so realistically for the most part. Henry is a type of person that could easily exist in real life. The movie also does a great job on the other cast of characters because they feel so believable and you don't want to see them be killed. It is amazing how this movie is still stunning, terrifying an"
Fantastic Films of the '80s (56 movies items)"Directed by: John McNaughton Henry, a drifter, commits a series of brutal murders, supposedly operating with impunity."
Movies Watched in 2017
Moviewatcher122's 2017 Film Diary: August (14 movies items)"August 29 "I'd like to kill somebody." "Say that again." "I'd like to kill somebody." "Let's me and you go for a ride, Otis." For a film that has a reputation for being really disturbing and realistic, I found it to be somewhat underwhelming. While I did like Michael Rooker's performance and the rest of the acting was decent, I couldn't really get engaged in this movie. I didn't think the dialogue was interesting and I didn't care for the characters. I get that you're supposed to care about "
Shudder.com Viewing (31 movies items)"LAST WATCHED: 6/2/2017Disturbing. And highly inaccurate, but that's what you get when Hollywood tells a story based on true events. I did like the scene where Henry was telling Becky how his mother died and he changed his story from stabbing her to shooting her. It keeps quite well with history. Henry Lee Lucas was notorious for claiming responsibility for murders he didn't commit in order to improve his prison conditions and he constantly changed his stories."
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (1980's) (153 movies items)" Notes: I remember very well the first time I saw the damned thing. In fact, at the time, I had never heard of this flick before and it is my brother-in-law who brought it to our attention saying that it had a very notorious reputation, that it was one of the scariest movies ever made. So, we sat there with the 3 of us (my sister, her boyfriend and myself), expecting something really horrible to happen but, to be honest, we didn’t care much for the whole thing. I mean, sure, it was well made "
Scarier Than Fiction (55 movies items)"Henry Lee Lucas The film's character, was based on Henry Lee Lucas, who proclaimed to have killed nearly 600. Roughly one murder a week between his release from prison in 1975 to his arrest in 1983. While the film was inspired by Lucas' confessions, the vast majority of his claims turned out to be false. Lucas, however was convected of 11 murders, by state officials."
The Cinephile's Film Journal: 2017
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2020) (1001 movies items)" Notes: I remember very well the first time I saw the damned thing. In fact, at the time, I had never heard of this flick before and it is my brother-in-law who brought it to our attention saying that it had a very notorious reputation, that it was one of the scariest movies ever made. So, we sat there with the 3 of us (my sister, her boyfriend and myself), expecting something really horrible to happen but, to be honest, we didn’t care much for the whole thing. I mean, sure, it was well made "
Spook-fest 2016 (35 movies items)"Brutal, disturbing, and not for everyone. *Trigger Warnings* Sexual assault, rape, necrophilia, to name a few. What makes this film the most horrifying is that it keeps a sense of realism, making it all seem possible, because these crimes do happen. Michael Rooker does a great job as the mass-murdering simpleton Henry, though the most repulsive character is his roommate and eventual sidekick Otis, whose acts of sexual perversion somewhat lessens the impact of Henry's murders on the audience."
Films Watched in 2016