Product: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 2 - Mask of Sanity (1998)
Rating: 2.0
EDITED VERSION on VHS and DVD - MPAA Censors Return!
HENRY 2 played UNRATED and UNCUT when it was first theatrically released. MPI decided to cut most of the violence and gore out to get an R-Rating for the video and DVD release and the results are less than thrilling. Every murder scene has been edited to the point where you see practically nothing (cutaways to the murderers' strained faces instead). The movie in it's original form was quite a strong and grim follow-up to the classic original, but this abbreviated edition is practically worthless. Maybe someday MPI will release the original uncut version, but I doubt it since most fans have already made up their minds that the movie sucks based only on seeing the edited version. The DVD does have a behind-the-scenes featurette that does show several clips from the film of the UNEDITED murder scenes with blood spurting everywhere....isn't it funny that they can get away with an R-rated video release as long as the gore scenes are an "extra" and not actually IN the film. What a crock. On top of it all, the DVD's audio is slightly out-of-sync throughout leaving this viewer in a daze.