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Hannibal Rising2007

Name: Hannibal Rising
Genre: Psychological, Gothic, Splatter & Gore
Released: 2007-02-06
Rating: 5.6

“It started with revenge.”

Directed by Peter Webber

5.6

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 6.1Rotten Tomatoes 16%Metacritic 35TMDB 6.3

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Year

2007

Runtime

121 min

Box Office

Budget

$75,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$82,169,884

Domestic

$27,670,986

🏆 2 nominations total

The premise

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill.

Horror Vault's take

Before he became the world's most infamous cannibal, Hannibal Lecter was a boy shaped by the horrors of wartime Lithuania — horrors that left wounds no amount of time could heal. Hannibal Rising traces his journey from traumatized survivor to medical student in France, where his darkest instincts begin to take deliberate, lethal form. The film is a portrait of a monster in the making, asking how much a person's past can explain — or excuse — the evil they become.

Content: Graphic Violence, Cannibalism, Depictions Of Wartime Atrocities, Decapitation, Disturbing Imagery Involving Cadavers