An intelligent chiller

Rating: 10/10 (20 May 2002)

For once an intelligent chiller. One that plays on the mind rather than the gut. There is no explicit violence but that which is implied - as in the scene where Dr Chilton shows Clarice the photograph of an earlier Lector victim - is breathtaking.
Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lector is superb, but I can't help wondering how Brian Cox (Hannibal in "Manhunter") would have interpreted the part.