“Those of you who haven’t seen it before,” continued Jones, “will be in for a surprise.” The same could be said of watching their latest picture, which they were promoting at the festival, Mad Dog and Glory, starring Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman and Bill Murray, a quirky love story scripted by Richard Price (writer of The Wanderers, and the remake of Night and the City, also with De Niro), and executive produced by none other than Martin Scorsese. “Have a swell time,” McNaughton said with a mischievous grin. Quentin Tarantino, also a guest at the festival, got to meet McNaughton for the first time, and they were able to pat each other on the back for their equally startlingly debut films Tarantino could be heard enthusing about one of the final scenes in Henry, where the eponymous hero meets an old lady walking her dog Delores, a scene which, McNaughton told me later, had in the past prompted some audience members to shout out, “No, not the dog!”ĭuring the festival McNaughton and Jones introduced a special midnight screening of the film. Three decades after it first shocked audiences, John McNaughton's twisted thriller receives a 4K re-release courtesy of Arrow Films.Īs Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer receives the 4K Ultra HD treatment courtesy of Arrow Videos, here’s a never-before-published interview with director John McNaughton from 1993 by David Hayles.ĭirector John McNaughton and producer Steven A Jones, responsible for the infamous Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer, were guests of honour at the 1993 Shots in the Dark film festival at the Broadway Cinema in Nottingham, a week of films devoted to the crime and murder genre. “No, not the dog!” – John McNaughton on Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

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