really creepy and Scary

Rating: 8/10 (7 February 2007)

The second Lecter movie but the first to feature Anthony Hopkins as Dr Hannibal Lecter, this is the movie that made him a household name.
When I first watched this, I remember having nightmares for days afterwards. This is a movie with no light moments in it at all, although a film all about serial killers is not going to be a laugh a minute in any case.
The performances are all excellent. Hard to say which is better , Jodie Foster or Anthony Hopkins. Hannibal is played with chilling air of menace by Hopkins, giving the feeling that if the glass between you and him ever came down, you'd survive about thirty seconds. And yet, as a previous reviewer stated, he makes Lecter seem somehow human at the same time. Foster makes the role of Clarice totally her own, and what her so much more convincing for some reason, was giving her dark hair. A special mention must also go to Ted Levine as Buffalo Bill, a complete fruitcake for most of the movie but when Clarice calls to his house appears almost completely normal. Wouldn't think he was that bloke from "Monk" would you? Although I have not yet seen Red Dragon, of the Lecter films I have seen, this is definitely the best.