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Following further controversy over the rating, Greycat Films picked up the film for distribution after it screened at the Boston Film Festival in McNaughton credited the MPAA's refusal to accept any cuts as giving him the opportunity to release it uncut, as he would have made cuts had they requested it. Electric Pictures had performed this edit themselves without the approval of director John McNaughton Template:Fix because they feared it was such an extreme image so early in the film, it would turn the board against them.
Total time cut from the film: 62 seconds. In , Electric Pictures submitted the pre-cut theatrical print of the film to the BBFC for home video classification, once again missing the shot of the dead girl. In January , the BBFC again classified the film '18', but the Board also removed four seconds from the scene where the TV salesman is murdered, meaning a total of 42 seconds were removed from the home video release.
However, BBFC director James Ferman overruled his own team and demanded that the family massacre scene be trimmed down to almost nothing, removing 71 seconds of footage. Additionally, Ferman re-edited the scene so that the reaction shot of Henry and Otis watching TV now occurred midway through the scene rather than at the end. Total time cut from the film: seconds. In , Universal Home Entertainment submitted the full uncut version of the film for classification for home video release.
The BBFC waived the four seconds cut from the murder of the TV salesman, and 61 of the 71 seconds from the family massacre scene they refused to reinstate the 10 seconds of the scene where Otis molests the mother after she is dead. Additionally, they partly approved the 38 second shot of the dead woman on the toilet, but they demanded that the last 17 seconds of the shot be removed. Based upon this, Universal decided to remove the shot entirely. Total time cut from the film: 48 seconds.
In , Optimum Releasing again submitted the full uncut version of the film for classification for a cinema release, and later for a home video release. In February , the BBFC passed the film completely uncut, and in March the uncut version of the film was officially released in the UK for the first time.
A parallel censoring of the film happened in New Zealand, where the film was originally banned outright by the Film Censor in A censored version was subsequently released on home video with cuts to the "family massacre" sequence. Critical reception at its premiere was mixed, and the resulting debate over the film's themes and morality helped to raise its profile.
The consensus reads: " Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is an effective, chilling profile of a killer that is sure to shock and disturb. 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.
In , a group of Belgian researchers praised the film for its very realistic depiction of a clinical psychopath. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:. In prison, Henry Lee Lucas confessed to over murders, claiming he committed roughly one murder a week between his release from prison in to his arrest in While the film was inspired by Lucas' confessions, the vast majority of his claims turned out to be false.
The "Lucas Report" asserted that reliable physical evidence linked Lucas to three murders. The hundreds of confessions stemmed from the fact that Lucas was confessing to almost every unsolved murder brought before him, often with the collusion of police officers who wanted to clear their files of unsolved and " cold cases. Such confessions also increased his fame with the public. His death sentence was later commuted to life in prison by the then Governor of Texas George W.
Bush in Lucas died in prison of heart failure on March 13, The character of Henry shares many biographical concurrences with Lucas himself.
However, as the opening statement makes clear, the film is based more on Lucas' violent fantasies and confessions rather than the crimes for which he was convicted.
Similarities between real life and the film include:. The DVD contained a commentary from director John McNaughton recorded in , a censorship timeline, comparisons of the scenes edited by the BBFC with their original uncut status, two interviews with McNaughton one from , one from , a stills gallery and a biography of Henry Lee Lucas text.
This DVD included a newly recorded commentary from McNaughton, a minute making-of documentary, a minute documentary about Henry Lee Lucas, 21 minutes of deleted scenes with commentary from McNaughton, a stills gallery, and the original storyboards. Template:John McNaughton. Culture Wikia Explore. Wiki Content. Duke Ellington DJ Shadow!!! Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
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