(Some Spoilers) We at first see on the screen a montage of murders committed by Henry, Neil Giunatli,as he then viciously smashes in the head of a terrified woman, Peneople Milford, whom he kidnapped in the woods. This is just to show us in the audience that he's still out there and back in action after 10 years since the first "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Murderer" movie was released. Henry when we first see him in this sequel is anything but the effective killing machine that we saw back in 1986. Instead he's a homeless and shiftless drifter who spends most of his time in soup kitchens and flop houses where he has to put up with witnessing sick and inhuman indignities, like man on man rape, that would drive most people out of their skulls.
Looking for a job Henry gets involved with this port-a-toilet company offering him $40.00 a day that he takes without hesitation since Henry must feel that this is about as good a job he'll get. Since besides being a serial murderer, which of course he keeps to himself, what other talents does he have to offer any employer. Working for his boss Rooter and his right-hand man Kai, Daniel Allar & Rich Komenich, Henry at first seems to have gotten away from his urge to murder. Since he's occupied working long hours draining out and hauling the smelly and disgusting waste products from the johns to the local waste treatment plant. One evening Henry learns that both Rooter & Kai are not all all that interested in what their supposed to be doing but using it as a front for their real job. A job that pays as much as $1,500, not the $40.00 that Henry has been getting, a day. Their professional torches or arsonists who are hired to burn down, and make it look like an accident, highly insured properties by the very persons who own them.
Getting involve in torching private houses and wear-houses gives Henry the opportunity to get back to his murderous ways. This shocks his friend and fellow arsonist Kai who at first thought that Henry was a real stand-up guy who you can go out to the local bar and have a couple of beers with. With Henry getting so completely caught up with his homicidal tendencies, he mostly kills just to keep from getting bored, Kai's wife Cricket, Kate Welsh, wants him out of her and Kia's house where Henry is a non-paying tenant. The last straw with Cricket is when her what seems like semi-retarded niece Louisa, Carri Levenson, falls madly in love with the madman.
Henry to his credit want's nothing to do with Lousia knowing that he's not her type but the star-struck young girl won't take no for an answer going so far as to threaten suicide if he doesn't marry her and take her away from both Kai & her aunt Cricket. During all this time Henry is slowly getting the somewhat alcoholic Kai involved in a string of brutal murders that has nothing at all to do with either the port-a-toilet or arson business but does quench Henry's thirst for blood and violence.
Like the Frankenstein Monster Henry loses what little control he had of himself and uses what he learned from both Kai and Rooter for his own evil purposes. In the end Henry ends up murdering both of them and later together with Kia's murdered wife Cricket incinerates them. In the case of Kia, while he's still alive and breathing, in order to hide the evidence of his crimes.
The relationship that Henry had with Lousia was about the only interesting thing in the film. Since it showed that he had at least some kind of human feelings in not wanting her to be stuck with him knowing that this brief sense of humanity, on Henry's part, may quickly evaporate and lead him to murder her, which for some strange reason he was very reluctant to do. It turned out that the very emotionally disturbed Lousia didn't have to have Henry do her in since she did a good job, by blowing her brains out, doing it herself.
Nowhere as good as the original but still very shocking to watch in that Henry now has a new weapon, in becoming a skilled torch man or arsonist, in his vast arsenal of death and destruction. A weapon which he'll undoubtedly use in the future to continue his reign of terror on humanity. A weapon of death and destruction which he learned from his former employers and latest victims Kai & Rooter.
Looking for a job Henry gets involved with this port-a-toilet company offering him $40.00 a day that he takes without hesitation since Henry must feel that this is about as good a job he'll get. Since besides being a serial murderer, which of course he keeps to himself, what other talents does he have to offer any employer. Working for his boss Rooter and his right-hand man Kai, Daniel Allar & Rich Komenich, Henry at first seems to have gotten away from his urge to murder. Since he's occupied working long hours draining out and hauling the smelly and disgusting waste products from the johns to the local waste treatment plant. One evening Henry learns that both Rooter & Kai are not all all that interested in what their supposed to be doing but using it as a front for their real job. A job that pays as much as $1,500, not the $40.00 that Henry has been getting, a day. Their professional torches or arsonists who are hired to burn down, and make it look like an accident, highly insured properties by the very persons who own them.
Getting involve in torching private houses and wear-houses gives Henry the opportunity to get back to his murderous ways. This shocks his friend and fellow arsonist Kai who at first thought that Henry was a real stand-up guy who you can go out to the local bar and have a couple of beers with. With Henry getting so completely caught up with his homicidal tendencies, he mostly kills just to keep from getting bored, Kai's wife Cricket, Kate Welsh, wants him out of her and Kia's house where Henry is a non-paying tenant. The last straw with Cricket is when her what seems like semi-retarded niece Louisa, Carri Levenson, falls madly in love with the madman.
Henry to his credit want's nothing to do with Lousia knowing that he's not her type but the star-struck young girl won't take no for an answer going so far as to threaten suicide if he doesn't marry her and take her away from both Kai & her aunt Cricket. During all this time Henry is slowly getting the somewhat alcoholic Kai involved in a string of brutal murders that has nothing at all to do with either the port-a-toilet or arson business but does quench Henry's thirst for blood and violence.
Like the Frankenstein Monster Henry loses what little control he had of himself and uses what he learned from both Kai and Rooter for his own evil purposes. In the end Henry ends up murdering both of them and later together with Kia's murdered wife Cricket incinerates them. In the case of Kia, while he's still alive and breathing, in order to hide the evidence of his crimes.
The relationship that Henry had with Lousia was about the only interesting thing in the film. Since it showed that he had at least some kind of human feelings in not wanting her to be stuck with him knowing that this brief sense of humanity, on Henry's part, may quickly evaporate and lead him to murder her, which for some strange reason he was very reluctant to do. It turned out that the very emotionally disturbed Lousia didn't have to have Henry do her in since she did a good job, by blowing her brains out, doing it herself.
Nowhere as good as the original but still very shocking to watch in that Henry now has a new weapon, in becoming a skilled torch man or arsonist, in his vast arsenal of death and destruction. A weapon which he'll undoubtedly use in the future to continue his reign of terror on humanity. A weapon of death and destruction which he learned from his former employers and latest victims Kai & Rooter.