10 Horror Movies That Missed Out The Money Shot

With Michael Rooker as the titular murderer, 1986's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer centres on a vile figure loosely based on the real-life Henry Lee Lucas.

Throughout the first half of this John McNaughton picture, Henry and pal Otis are shown to be utterly hideous creatures who brutalise men, women and children at random and merely for their own amusement. Then, unexpectedly, the audience gets the first hints that maybe Henry has a softer side, with Otis' sister Becky slowly but surely starting to get the rogue to drop his sinister guard.

With a bond blossoming between Henry and Becky, Rooker's character comes to the defence of her when she finds herself in trouble. Being the twisted movie that Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is, that trouble means the sexual assault of Becky... and that defence means Henry murdering Otis for this act.

After dumping Otis' body, Henry and Becky shack up in a motel, profess their undying love for one another, and you start to think Henry really has changed his spots. Instead, the gut punch final shot of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is Henry throwing a blood-stained suitcase out of his car - with the insinuation that Becky's corpse is inside.

While that ending does work, it feels as if Portrait of a Serial Killer left a little on the table by not showing the money shot of Henry reverting to type and doing what he chillingly does best.