Apr 22, 2019
8 min read
Loving Hannibal Lecter
How the cannibalistic serial killer gained his superfans
For many of us, our first introduction to Hannibal Lecter was via Jonathan Demme’s 1991 film, The Silence of the Lambs. Who can forget the delightfully sinister Anthony Hopkins’ psychological flirting with protagonist Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) while a deranged fellow prisoner masturbated in the next cell over?
