“If you shoot someone in the head with a .45 every time you kill somebody, it becomes like your fingerprint, see? But if you strangle one, stab another, and one you cut up, and one you don’t, then the police don’t know what to do. They think you’re four different people. What they really want, what makes their job so much easier, is pattern. What they call a modus operandi. That’s Latin.”

Henry, Portrait Of A Serial Killer screens Midnights this weekend (November 18th and 19th) at The Moolah Theater and Lounge (3821 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, Mo 63108) as part of Destroy the Brain’s monthly Late Night Grindhouse film series.

Read my interview with Michel Rooker, star of Henry, Portrait Of A Serial Killer Here

John McNaughton’s 1988 masterpiece Henry, Portrait Of A Serial Killer is a work of genius provided you can make it all the way through.