HENRY
LEE
LUCAS
aka
Drifter
With
Antonio
Sabato
Jr.,
John
Diehl,
Kelly
Curran,
Kostas
Sommer,
John
Burke,
Caia
Coley,
Thomas
Garner,
Jay
Pickett
Written
by
Wood
Dickinson,
Michael
Feifer,
Christopher
Ryan
Directed
by
Michael
Feifer
Just
like
the
Ed
Gein
and
Ted
Bundy
biopics,
this
look
at
serial
killer
Henry
Lee
Lucas
falls
short
of
what
it
could've
been.
None
of
these
had
great
budgets
to
deliver
something
like
The
Silence
Of
The
Lambs,
but
with
the
fact-based
story
and
gruesome
scenarios
from
which
to
draw,
one
feels
the
result
could've
been
a
lot
more
effective.
Lucas
grew
up
white
trash
in
the
'50s,
abused
by
his
mother
who
also
turned
tricks
(to
keep
things
afloat
after
his
father
lost
his
legs).
His
taste
for
killing
and
sex
with
corpses
reached
its
peak
when
he
met
an
equally
disturbed
scumbag,
Otis
(also
getting
involved
with
his
under
aged
sister).
When
Lucas
got
caught,
he
began
a
trail
of
confessions
which
took
off
to
include
a
multitude
of
false
admissions.
I
still
find
it
fascinating
how
some
people
glorify
and
admire
serial
killers
when
they
are
the
lowest
of
the
low,
preying
on
people
for
their
own
twisted
gratification.
This
movie
doesn't
come
close
to
the
impact
of
the
1986
movie
losely
based
on
Lucas'
life,
Henry:
Portrait
Of
A
Serial
Killer.
While
that
movie
also
had
a
low
budget,
it
was
far
more
effective
and
disturbing.
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-
Paul
Blom
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