With the novel adaptation The Silence of the Lambs, director Jonathan Demme has made one of the most iconic serial killer films ever. This is mainly due to the dynamic between Jodie Foster as young FBI candidate Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins, who plays Hannibal Lecter one of the most legendary killers in film history might.
The sequel Hannibal by Ridley Scott was released in 2001 and is now streaming with a Netflix subscription. Hopkins is back in his signature role, as well as a particularly disgusting scene that will be burned into your head forever.
Serial killer sequel on Netflix: That’s what Hannibal is about
The action takes place around 10 years after Lecter’s escape from prison at the end of The Silence of the Lambs. The cannibal now leads a life under a false identity in Florence, while his arch enemy and multimillionaire Mason Verger (Gary Oldman). There’s a bounty on his head has. In addition to this very personal duel, Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) is also still on the hunt for Lecter. She ultimately wants to use Verger as bait to catch the cannibal.
This disgusting Hannibal scene will shock you forever
Spoiler alert!
In one passage of the serial killer thriller, government official Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta), who is stalking Clarice, is drugged by Hannibal in order to escape from the cannibal his own brain (!) in small bites to eat to be served. The explicit sight of the opened skull and the small pieces that Lecter enjoys frying in the pan are disgusting images that are hard to shake.
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