Stars: Mary Louise Parker, Julianne Moore, Ralph Fiennes, Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Edward Norton, Emily Watson, Harvey Keitel, Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Director: Ridley Scott

Summary: Cannibal-killer Hannibal Lecter is arguably cinema's most frightening creation. Discover why with these films featuring the brilliant but disturbed doctor. Includes HANNIBAL and RED DRAGON.

Cannibal-killer Hannibal Lecter is arguably cinema's most frightening creation. Discover why with these films featuring the brilliant but disturbed doctor. Includes HANNIBAL and RED DRAGON. In HANNIBAL, Doctor Hannibal Lecter escapes from incarceration and travels to Florence. There he takes a position as curator for the Palazzo Vecchio. He is soon sighted by a policeman who plans to turn him over to a former victim, Mason Verger, who seeks the ultimate revenge. Once again Clarice Starling finds herself on the trail of one of the FBI's most wanted. In RED DRAGON--the first chapter in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy--FBI agent Will Graham is assigned the task of catching 'The Tooth Fairy'. In order to do so he must try to persuade Lecter to advise him. Lecter knows who the murderer is and only feeds small scraps of information to Graham, but now the Tooth Fairy has got he sights set on Graham's family.

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Based on Thomas Harris's novel, Jonathan Demme's terrifying adaptation of Silence of the Lambscontains only a couple of genuinely shocking moments (one involving an autopsy, the other a prison break). The rest of the film is a splatter-free visual and psychological descent into the hell of madness, redeemed astonishingly by an unlikely connection between a monster and a haunted young woman. Anthony Hopkins is extraordinary as the cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr Hannibal Lecter; Jodie Foster is equally memorable as the vulnerable FBI agent-in-training Clarice Starling. --Tom Keogh

Hannibalis set 10 years after Silence of the Lambs, as Dr Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins, reprising his Oscar-winning role) is living the good life in Italy, studying art and sipping espresso. FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore replaces Jodie Foster), on the other hand, hasn't had it so good. The film is so stylistically different from its predecessor that it forces you to take it on its own terms. Director Ridley Scott gives the film a sleek, almost European look that lets you know that, unlike the first film (which was about the quintessentially American Clarice), this movie is all Hannibal. Hopkins and Moore are both first-rate, but the film contrives to keep them as far apart as possible. When they do connect it's quite thrilling but it's unfortunately too little too late. --Mark Englehart

Anthony Hopkins returns as Hannibal Lecter in Red Dragon, a prequel to The Silence of the Lambsand a remake of 1986's Manhunter, Michael Mann's fine film of Thomas Harris's terrific book, in which Brian Cox carved the ham thinner as a more menacing, less hokey cannibal. This film beefs up Lecter's role, as FBI agent Will Graham (Edward Norton) consults Lecter on the Tooth Fairy case, which means some pointed and familiar conversations, and the film then shifts focus from the investigation to the life and troubles of the mad and murderous but also abused and sympathetic Francis Dolarhyde (Ralph Fiennes, with a major tattoo and a harelip). It's hard not to compare the current cast with Mann's excellent players. Still, Red Dragonis a solid film of great material, with all the sudden shocks and disturbing whispers in places. --Kim Newman

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive menu
Year:	2001
Release Date:	December 26, 2006
Runtime:	245 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	8246641
Keywords:	Films, Two, Red, Thriller, Dragon, Horror, Psychological, Hannibal, Discs
Genre:	Thriller