Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Henry is a psychopathic drifter who indiscriminately murders scores of people – men, women, and children – as he travels throughout America. He migrates to Chicago, where he stops at a diner, eats dinner, and later murders several women and the elderly proprietors of a liquor store. Michael Rooker stars as Henry, a character loosely based on convicted real-life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. Henry picks up his prison friend Otis (Tom Towles) and his sister Becky (Tracy Arnold) and starts schooling them in the ways of the serial killer. Henry forms a seemingly protective bond with Becky when Otis makes an incestuous pass at her, but later embarks on a killing spree with Otis, targeting drivers on Lower Wacker Drive. Henry advises Otis to employ a different modus operandi for each murder, and the two set a trap for drivers, fatally shooting a man who pulls over to help. The film follows Henry's actions, culminating in the murder of Otis, after which Henry abandons Becky.