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Hannibal2001

Name: Hannibal
Genre: Psychological, Splatter & Gore, Survival
Released: 2001-02-08
Rating: 6.5

“His genius undeniable. His evil unspeakable. His name...Hannibal.”

Directed by Ridley Scott

6.5

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 6.8Rotten Tomatoes 39%Metacritic 57TMDB 6.8

✍ Review

On the charts

#3·Top Horror Movies of 2001

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Year

2001

Runtime

131 min

Box Office

Budget

$87,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$351,692,268

Domestic

$165,092,268

🏆 9 wins & 25 nominations total

The premise

After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.

Horror Vault's take

A decade after his escape, the brilliant and terrifying Dr. Hannibal Lecter has reinvented himself among the cultural elite of Florence — until the past catches up with him. Back in the United States, FBI Agent Clarice Starling finds herself politically outmaneuvered and professionally endangered, making her dangerously vulnerable to Lecter's renewed fascination. Director Ridley Scott brings a lush, operatic visual style to this cat-and-mouse thriller that pushes the boundaries of what mainstream studio horror-adjacent cinema will put on screen. Expect Grand Guignol set pieces and a story that revels in the twisted intimacy between hunter and hunted.

Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Cannibalism, Disturbing Imagery, Self-Harm