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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
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4 February 2021 • 6:00am What made Hannibal so menacing was the mystery of who he was : Brian Cox in Manhunter
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How different modern cinema might have been if Hannibal Lecter had sung I Just Called to Say I Love You down the phone. The now-unlikely scenario was almost included in the original Lecter film – Michael Mann’s 1986 thriller, Manhunter – as Hannibal, then played by Brian Cox, calls the FBI profiler who put him behind bars (and Plexiglass).