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7. Hannibal Rising (2007)
Why can t we just let baddies be bad? As part of an eye-rolling trend of villain origin stories, Harris rush-released a novel and film about young Lecter (Aaran Thomas), tracing his dire upbringing in 1940s Lithuania, where his parents were murdered and his sister was cannibalized. Now grown, Lecter (Gaspard Ulliel) develops his own taste for flesh in a gruesome revenge-killing spree. It s a hackneyed tale that robs the character of his chilling mystique, reducing him to a cheap horror movie slasher.
6. Clarice (2021)
A show that is somehow more lifeless than Dr. Lecter s victims. Set a year after the events of Silence of the Lambs, the CBS drama follows Starling (Breeds) as she s called back into the field to investigate serial killings. The series aims for nuanced exploration of Starling s childhood trauma and PTSD from the Buffalo Bill case but is hindered by flat dialogue and heavy-handed storytelling. Most lethal of all, Clarice is unab