Manhunter: Michael Mann Meets Hannibal Lecter First

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Everyone remembers Anthony Hopkins. Almost nobody remembers Brian Cox, and that is one of the small injustices of film history. Five years before Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs swept the Oscars, Michael Mann adapted Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon into a film called Manhunter (1986), put Hannibal Lecter on screen for the first time, and produced a serial-killer procedural so controlled and so cold that later entries in the genre still look overheated beside it.

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Manhunter: Michael Mann Meets Hannibal Lecter First