Black Sunday, based on author Thomas Harris's only non-Hannibal Lecter novel, involves an Israeli Mossad agent ( Robert Shaw ), chasing a Palestinian terrorist ( Marthe Keller ) and a disgruntled Vietnam vet ( Bruce Dern ), who plan to blow up the Goodyear blimp over the Super Bowl.

Slater finds Danny clinging to the side of the building and pulls him to safety, but Benedict confronts Slater and shoots him in the chest while ranting about his plans to form an army of film villains ( such as Dracula, Freddy Krueger, Hannibal Lecter and King Kong ) and take over the world.

After the Nazis take over at Lecter Castle, six Lithuanian militiamen ( played by Rhys Ifans, Richard Brake, Ivan Marevich, Kevin McKidd, Stephen Martin Walters, and Goran Kostic ), who want to join the Waffen-SS, are told to prove their worth.

The first film adapted from the Harris novels was Manhunter ( based on Red Dragon ) which features Brian Cox as Lecter, spelled " Lecktor ".

In the backstory, FBI special agent Will Graham initially consulted Lecter about a series of murders before realizing Lecter was the culprit ; Lecter realizes that Graham is on to him, sneaks up behind him and stabs him, nearly disemboweling him, but not killing him.

Starling follows them, intent on apprehending Lecter personally, but is instead also taken captive.

According to David Sexton, author of The Strange World of Thomas Harris: Inside the Mind of the Creator of Hannibal Lecter, Harris once told a librarian in Cleveland, Mississippi, that Lecter was inspired by William Coyne, a local murderer who had escaped from prison in 1934 and gone on a rampage that included acts of murder and cannibalism.

* Information about Hannibal Lecter, with a focus on Manhunter ( 1986 )

* NPR broadcast on Lecter

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In Thomas Harris's book Hannibal ( 1999 ), the infamous fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter, while on a flight from Europe to America, waits until everyone is asleep before producing a Fauchon food parcel of aromatic truffled pate de foie gras and Anatolian figs, as well as a half bottle of St Estephe which Harris says he favours.

During this time, Lecter captures Krendler and performs a craniotomy on him while he is still alive.

A study was conducted by California State University's Media Psychology Lab, on the psychological appeal of movie monsters — Vampires, Freddy Krueger, Frankenstein's monster, Jason Voorhees, Godzilla, Chucky, Hannibal Lecter, King Kong, The Alien, and the shark from Jaws — which surveyed 1, 166 people nationwide ( United States ), with ages ranging from 16 to 91.

Dick Lecter ( Robert Vaughn ), the CEO of multi-industrial conglomerate LecterCorp, learns of Pootie Tang's positive influence on society — and his negative influence on LecterCorp's bottom line.

After his henchmen and a vile villain named Dirty Dee ( Reg E. Cathey ) are sent away by Pootie's friends, Lecter encourages his right-hand lady, Ireenie ( Jennifer Coolidge ), to seduce Pootie Tang into signing an agreement with LecterCorp that would stop Pootie Tang's influence on America's children.

Graham had retired after being attacked and nearly killed by Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a Baltimore psychiatrist who had helped the FBI on several occasions before, after Graham intuited that Lecter was the serial killer the FBI sought.

The houseboat is then incinerated, but Lecter, assumed to be dead, emerges from the nearby woods on the shore.

When FBI profiler Will Graham goes to Lecter for advice on capturing another serial killer, Francis Dolarhyde, Chilton makes an unwelcome attempt to question Graham about Lecter's psyche.

In the 2001 film Hannibal, Hannibal Lecter sends Clarice Starling a letter which he writes while intentionally wearing a hand lotion containing ambergris, correctly assuming that this would ultimately aid her in discovering his location in Florence, Italy, due to it being legal only in few parts of the world.

Lecter goes there and threatens Kolnas ' children, forcing him to give up the location of Grutas ' boat.

* The Silence of the Lambs ( 1989 ) mentions " Plum Island " as a potential supervised vacation site for Hannibal Lecter as a reward for helping to catch Jame Gumb.

The novel ends with Lecter being accepted into the Johns Hopkins Medical Center.

Lecter recognizes the sounds of Kolnas ' ortolans from his restaurant in the background.

He is murdered and disemboweled by Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and then hung from the balcony of the Palazzo della Signoria, just as his famous ancestor was.

Lecter then flees to the United States and immediately starts to follow Starling.

* Enrikas Dortlich – His head is ripped off after Lecter ties his neck to a horse ; his cheeks are then cut off.

* Bronys Grentz – Is beheaded by Lecter who then mails the head to a taxidermist.

The Lithuanian militiamen then loot Lecter Castle as the Soviet Red Army draws nearer, and soon before killing the wounded commanding officer of the Waffen-SS squad they had requested to join, Grutas announces their plan to " Go into business for themselves ".

Lecter slices the butcher's stomach, arm, and back with a katana samurai sword, and then decapitates him.

Lecter then says he will leave Kolnas alone for the sake of his family.

The center was also mentioned in the movie Silence of the Lambs by FBI agents who offer Dr. Hannibal Lecter a transfer to it in exchange for his help locating a serial killer.

Then, in the novel's most controversial sequence, she opens her dress and offers her breast to Lecter ; he accepts her offer and the two became lovers.

From this, he learns of Crawford's offer to transfer Lecter to a better prison facility in exchange for Buffalo Bill's identity.

In an attempt to provoke Dolarhyde out of hiding, Graham gives an interview to Freddy Lounds of The Tattler, in which he refers to the " Tooth-Fairy " as impotent, homosexual, and possibly the product of incest ; he also implies that Lecter is offended that the killer considers himself Lecter's equal.

In addition, Raimi needed $ 3 million to finish his movie, but Universal was not willing to give him the money and delayed its release because they were upset that De Laurentiis would not give them the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character so that they could film a sequel to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs.

A prominent example of an L cut occurs in the film The Silence of the Lambs when Clarice is leaving her first interview with Dr. Lecter.

Lecter both worked in, and was committed to, a mental institution.

In popular culture, tapping was used in the film Red Dragon as a way for prisoner Hannibal Lecter to dial out and circumvent a phone with no dialing mechanism.

* Hannibal, in which Hannibal Lecter lobotomizes Paul Krendler, played by Ray Liotta.

It was featured in the movie The Silence of the Lambs as the place where Dr. Hannibal Lecter escapes custody.

* Thomas Harris, author of Hannibal Lecter novels ; he was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but raised in Rich, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in Coahoma County.

Hannibal Lecter, M. D., is a fictional character in a series of horror novels by Thomas Harris and in the films adapted from them.

Lecter was introduced in the 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon as a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.

The novel and its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs, feature Lecter as the secondary antagonist after the two serial killers in both novels.

In the third novel, Hannibal, Lecter becomes the main character.

In 2003, Hannibal Lecter ( as portrayed by Hopkins ) was chosen by the American Film Institute as the # 1 movie villain.

Empire magazine lists Lecter as the fifth Greatest Movie Character of All Time.

Hannibal Lecter is introduced in the 1981 novel Red Dragon as a brilliant psychiatrist and a cannibalistic serial killer.

Lecter is convicted and incarcerated in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, under the care of Dr. Frederick Chilton, whom Lecter despises.