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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
★ 6.7 · 773 ratings on TMDB
He's not Freddy, he's not Jason...he's real.
Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
DirectorJohn McNaughton
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
