Leave it to the boys over at Bloody-Disgusting.com to scrape up some of the most interesting sequel news of the year. On the eve of the 20th Anniversary DVD for the seminal serial killer classic HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, director John McNaughton drops some info that a sequel may be in the works.
Here’s what he had to say: “I’m also talking to MPI about a sequel to “Henry” which picks up after Henry is captured. It was an idea that we had after the first “Henry” took off. The idea of the serial killer as media celebrity, which is what happened to the real Henry after he was caught. The idea of just picking Henry up 6 mos. later killing more people was not really interesting to those of who made the first one, but what happened to Henry after he was captured was very interesting indeed.”
Now that’s one helluva sequel idea. I’m sure that genre fans’d be all over that bad boy like white on rice. Now for more of the interview head on over here for lots of other cool nuggets from McNaughton.