A digital restoration for this legendary, chilling and harrowing film’s 30th anniversary.
Henry (Michael Rooker), a
psychopathic drifter who has left a trail of dead bodies in his wake,
settles for a while at the dilapidated Chicago apartment of his sleazy
ex-prison buddy, Otis (Tom Towles). Into this toxic environment comes
Otis’ younger sister, Becky (Tracy Arnold), who’s fleeing an abusive
marriage and looking for a place to stay. Becky finds herself
attracted to Henry and sees him as a potential lover and herself as his
possible savior. What she doesn’t realize is that Otis and Henry are now
killing together, murdering for kicks and sinking to ever more shocking
depths of depravity. Gritty, gory and highly unsettling, cult filmmaker
John McNaughton’s controversial horror classic (shelved for three years
thanks to an X-rating from the MPAA, finally securing an unrated
release in 1989) is a nightmarish cinema landmark that once seen, is not
easily forgotten.