Brian Cox was great as Hannibal.

@anubusx

2 ай бұрын

He is an amazing scientist.

@DonovanWert

2 ай бұрын

When I was 17 years old, I worked with Dennis Farina on crime story. I worked on that show for two seasons. Manhunter was an awesome movie.

@MovieProdigy25

2 ай бұрын

More relatable in a way as odd as that sounds

@noahalliston3838

2 ай бұрын

RIP Dennis Farina, probably my favorite portrayal of Jack Crawford. He feels bad about getting Will Graham back involved in the very thing that drove him to isolation.

@da3726

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, he was great

You forgot to mention To Live and Die in L. A. That movie is probably a reason Petersen was cast in Manhunter.

@piscinaiv7937

2 ай бұрын

one of my all time favorite movie car chase scenes!

@StreetsOfVancouverChannel

2 ай бұрын

Ah yes a fantastic movie! Especially the shocking ‘early retirement’ scene! Such a delightfully gritty and gutsy film.

@matthews7805

2 ай бұрын

One of the best films of the 80s.

@dameinoferrall2400

2 ай бұрын

That movie is incredible. Talk about subversion of expectations! Wow!

@Donathon-qx8kq

2 ай бұрын

That movie is a lost Gem.... even underrated when it came out....

The moment when Will realizes Dollarhyde had actually watched the videos himself is one of my favorite scenes ever. The throbbing 80s music, his darting eyes that let us know he already knows, he just hasn't realized that he knows... it's just awesomely done.

@johnfitzpatrick3094

2 ай бұрын

My favorite part of the movie.

@mattmarzula

2 ай бұрын

This movie was so well shot and that scene was powerful.

@carlbirkin7306

2 ай бұрын

Same here brillany scene

@JW...-oj5iw

Күн бұрын

​@@carlbirkin7306... What??

@JW...-oj5iw

Күн бұрын

I don't think he had learned that his suspect was Dollarhyde during the scene. He was still only called the Tooth Fairy until the investigation led to the film processing company.

Silence might be the best of the Hannibal movies made, but Manhunter is my favorite. I love the atmosphere Mann creates. Both Petersen and Noonan overshadow Norton and Fiennes in the remake. And as much as I love Hopkins's Hannibal there is no denying it is a movie villain performance, a mix of Lugosi's Dracula and Pleasance's Blofeld. Cox manages to make Hannibal as realistic as a character like that can be, which may not be as iconic, but sure as hell is terrifying.

This movie hasn't been forgotten or abandoned. It just wasn't a hit when it was first released.

Lynch found it extreme??? Now thats a hard take

@BallintheJack1

2 ай бұрын

Twin Peaks is his version of this story. But the impact of violence is what's important to Lynch. That's why we never really see as much of the violence as we do the aftermath

@ValleyOfTheWindFan06

2 ай бұрын

Wild at heart: Am i a joke to you?

@gregbors8364

Ай бұрын

I don’t think that Lynch wanted to work for DeLaurentis again and may have used that as an excuse to back out. Plus he wanted to move on to completely original work rather than an another adaptation of a novel

I love this film, I was fortunate to see it before Silence of the Lambs. And despite how lorded Hopkins' portrayal is I always felt Cox was better.

@zejaguar

Ай бұрын

Cox had a matter of fact demeanor. Not very scary at first. Notice the guard does not turn his back on him. Hopkins did a great job too. He was scary right away.

@detectivesquirrel2621

Ай бұрын

@@zejaguar Except the cartoonish sucking air through his teeth

@gregbors8364

Ай бұрын

@@detectivesquirrel2621That’s because he had a nice key-yan-tee

When South Park parodies the "Do you see?" scene in one of it's older episodes is one of my favorite moments in the series.

You lost me when Segal asked for permission to take the chili dog. Dude would have just grabbed it and walked away.

@robertdochter277

2 ай бұрын

He would also claim to have invented the first chili dog.

@elainethomas9737

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@KravKernow

2 ай бұрын

Lovely Space Ice vibe there!

I love Manhunter. It's such a vibey movie. The atmosphere of the whole movie is amazing

@TECHNOIR

2 ай бұрын

Oh yeah and the soundtrack is flat out amazing, Michael Mann is brilliant at slow-burn montages and ‘Graham’s Theme’ is just wonderful. Tom Noonan’s performance is one for the ages, just a great flick all round

@elainethomas9737

2 ай бұрын

It's a really good movie 👍

Saw this when it came out and was BLOWN away! With respect to Hopkins, Cox scared TF outta me from frame one, and will always be "my" Hannibal. An absolute masterpiece.

To Live & die in LA was cool 😎 Both the movie & the song 👍

I remember seeing this on cable after Silence of the Lambs was released. I absolutely loved it. Every time I hear Inna Gadda Davida now, I always think of the film’s climax. Also, they never tell the audience what Hannibal’s crime was specifically. Fun fact: Tom Noonan and William Petersen didn’t meet each other until they filmed the climax. Petersen’s reaction to Noonan was real

Lynch found "Manhunter" violent? Wow what an irony. "Blue Velvet" wasn't necessarily a Disney movie

Gee I'm old, I saw this movie in the theatre when it came out in France and I distinctly remember thinking "Wow, this is out there!". I was 21... It really brought something new to the film conversation, as it started the *you and me are quite alike" trope which is now an exhausted cliché. And the grace of the tiger scene is wonderfully weird. Thank you for bringing up these memories!

One of the best hidden gems of the 80's. I watched this and The Hitcher around about the same time. Both were incredibly creepy and memorable.

Sad we never got more Brian Cox Hannibal movies. Hes good!

@JW...-oj5iw

Күн бұрын

He's very good as Mr. Moon even though a bit cartoonish at the time.

This was my late-sister's favorite movie, she was obsessed with reading about plane crashes and serial killers, not much ever phased her, yet she said nothing ever disturbed her as much as watching this film and the thought of someone sat in the tree outside her bedroom window filming her night after night. Horror is subjective, but I'll always stand by the fact that it's the subtle things that will always be the most disturbing when a film truly scares you.

@tjenahoj

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing and God bless you and your sister, by sharing, she is not forgotten by westernkind.

This and To Live And Die In L.A. are the ultimate double feature

@johnfitzpatrick3094

2 ай бұрын

You read my mind.

@mbeenz

2 ай бұрын

HELL YA MY BRILLIANT FRIEND!

@pascalhallibert

2 ай бұрын

EXACTLY!!!! TRUE LAW OF THE UNIVERSE!

How a Michael Mann movie went this overlooked is kinda insane.

@ralphiecifaretto8961

2 ай бұрын

It wasn't that good.

@bobbyscott2123

2 ай бұрын

@@ralphiecifaretto8961i strongly disagree Micheal Mann has never really made a bad movie Black hat or wotever wasn’t that great

@ralphiecifaretto8961

2 ай бұрын

@bobbyscott2123 It's not bad and there's allot to like about it, but the ending was rushed. After an hour or so of a great psychological thriller, they rushed Dollarhydes relationship with the blind girl and William Peterson jumping through a window was just plain ridiculous and didn't fit in with the rest of the movie. It spent 2/3rds of the movie bend a a great psychological serial killer story to ending like an over the top 80s cop movie like Tango and Cash.

@ricardocantoral7672

2 ай бұрын

​​@@ralphiecifaretto8961 I agree about the ending. That finale looked particularly bad compared to the shocking and unforgiving conclusion of the book. Also, I disliked the heavy use of pop music and tacky neo art deco buildings.

I love this 80s cult classic the most in entire series by far. The atmosphere is simply incredible almost documentary like at times with superb acting all round, especially from scene stealing Brian Cox playing a far more grounded realistic scary and less cartoony Hannibal Lecter :-)

The Original Manhunter was a masterpiece. William Peterson's performance was Daniel Day Lewis Awesome. Peterson was Wil Graham.. the scene where Graham puts it together that the Tooth fairy actually had seen the home movies was magic.... All the while the other cop is looking at Graham like he was clairvoyant. Pure Genius. Peterson was Far better than Goofy Foster... Peterson could have been SHOULD have been a movie star.

I saw Manhunter when it hit home video, and though Silence is amazing, I still love Manhunter more than any of the movies made involving Hannibal.

As an 80's kid, my parents had HBO cable service courtesy of Cablevision here in The Bronx. For some time, I used to think my crazy mind was dreaming up a sequence of watching a burnt paraplegic being rolled uncontrollably towards me. Little did I realize my young mind was actually trying to process that f***ed up parking garage sequence from MANHUNTER!❤

1986 the film came out not 96

@jamessantos9861

2 ай бұрын

When did he say 1996? I must’ve missed it. The only time I heard 1996 was when he was talking about the movie “FEAR.”

@danielhuckle4444

2 ай бұрын

@@jamessantos9861 right when he says the movie came out near the end of the video

@chr1998is

2 ай бұрын

13:32 He does say 1996, instead of 1986.

@guyincognito143

2 ай бұрын

So did you

The scene where he jumps through the window while In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is playing is one of my all time favorite movie scenes. Badass and masterfully shot.

Wait Wait Wait , is this Mike from We Watched A Movie . I love this guy .

@scotttobekidding4611

Ай бұрын

Is it???? Damn sounds like like awesome son of a bitch.😂

in my top 5 for the last 35 years. love it

When I was 17 years old, I worked for two years on crime story a TV show that starred Dennis Farina and was produced by Michael Mann

@corpusvile1

2 ай бұрын

Didn't Abel Ferrara direct one of the episodes? I keep meaning to check out Crime Story and still haven't gotten around to it.

@NoInFoo8

2 ай бұрын

Pretty cool experience at that age

@TheHorrorMavrik-bt8nx

2 ай бұрын

That was a Mann show as well. Awesome!!

@alyzu4755

2 ай бұрын

Such a great show!

So glad Mike seems to be a regular on JoBlo now

Brilliant documentary! When I first saw Manhunter, before Silence of the Lambs, I could not understand why it was not more popular. I loved everything about it. Brian Cox was one of my favourite actors since I first saw him in the series The Devil's Crown. It also introduced me to Shriekback. Great band. Thank you for this documentary and I am subscribing.❤

@JoBloHorrorOriginals

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

This movie is brilliant, I have lost count how many times I've seen it. Pantyhose dude is scary enough to put my cat into hiding. The ending is spectacular, with Iron Butterfly working so well with the visuals. I love it 💀

Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was the perfect song for the climax of Manhunter.

I love hearing Mike on this channel but I definitely miss the song at the end.

Such an underrated film, loved it then and appreciate it even more now. Nice shout out to the late & great Dennis Farrina who I loved in pretty much everything he did

The Hannibal series was so dam good too... Hannibal and Will were casted perfectly

Brian Cox was great and i like how played up his grandiosity and narcissism and made the character loathsome

Petersen is always Grissom to me haha, but I was born in 89 so CSI is where I saw him first. It's always a trip to see him as a younger man when I'm used to him being later middle aged man, or just elderly these days.

Back in the day I would always recommend this movie and to Live and die in LA, which was another great movie.

I noticed in some of the shots you showed of Graham talking to Lecter that the prison bars were borderline transparent when focusing on Graham compared to when focusing on Lecter.

Loved this since I was a kid. So 80’s in the best ways.

Manhunter is a great movie. I have to watch it every now and again because it is so good.

Loved this movie! Thanks for reviewing it and helping it garner the attention and appreciation that it deserves.

One of my all time favorite movies! Some of the greatest scenes in cinema.

Always loved this film. When I first saw the scene where he walks into the gruesome bedroom and we see what he sees, I got crazy shivers

I heard that Bryan Singer cited Brian Cox’s performance as Hannibal Lecter as a something he was a fan of, which eventually lead to Cox being cast as William Stryker in X-Men 2.

I always liked this movie, and I think Brian Cox was a great Hannibal

I saw Manhunter before Silence Of The Lambs... Love Hopkins; loathe his Hannibal Lecktor (however it's spelt!). Too cartoonish. Petersen is awesome; and Tom Noonan is just way beyond... I remain convinced Francis almost has a moment where he could've been saved by Riva, until he sees her... and then, of course, he returns to his path... The Miami Vice vibe of the settings and costume felt very dated to me as I first watched it, but the further I journeyed into this movie, the more it became timeless... to me, now, it looks timeless, outside of any era, which adds to the atmosphere.

My husband and I love this movie! But we also love Silence of the Lambs. And that’s where the love stops. We don’t hate any of the other movies about Hannibal or Graham but for us these two are canon. And I really loved this retrospective on Manhunter. Thank you for all your hard work on it.

Tom Noonan may be one of the greatest creepy villain portrayers in all of cinema! The man is brilliant!!

I love Manhunter/Red Dragon for everything, but especially for the showdown with the exquisite use of the song »In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida« from Iron Butterfly. That blowed me away and is for me so iconic, i will never forget it. I knew the song since i was a little boy in the early 70s, because it was one of the favorite songs of my late father, who played it many many times. I still have his vinyl.

I am 42 years old and only watched this film for the first time today - and OMG. There is virtually no violence throughout the whole thing (apart from the rushed ending) but still it grips you by the throat and creates this tense atmosphere. Also, Brian Cox as Lector is so much more dialed down and realistic, which makes him more believable and therefore more scary than Hopkins' who goes so over the top with the character.

All I can say is In A Gada Da Vida! Absolutely perfect!

I didn't even know this movie existed until about a year ago and I was, so glad to have learned about it. It's brilliant and, so creepy. It's exactly in my opinion how a subject like this should be portrayed. Every one involved in this film was excellent.

Always underappreciated, which at the time of/following the release of the film I had trouble understanding. Being a fan of Thief put this on my radar and every aspect of the film blew me away. My alternate timeline? Just re-releasing it instead of making Red Dragon.

Dante Spinotti should have won an oscar for this film! The cinematography is Master Class! Every frame is stunning!!

I went through a a complete whirlwind of thoughts about this movie. I saw the Silence of the Lambs when I was really young. Like I was maybe 7 or 8. I was obviously terrified. And as I got older it became one of my favorite movies. When I was in highschool I became fascinated with it and eventually found out that it was a sequel. And the movie was called Manhunter. I watched it and didn’t really like it. And then I read the book Red Dragon. I loved the book. And then a few years later the remake red dragon came out. And I loved it… at first. But then I read the book again. And then I watched manhunter again. And I felt like it actually followed the book more closely then the remake. I feel like the remake is little more than a cash grab now. Manhunter is the type of movie that you can watch multiple times and see something totally new in it. I went from hating it to loving it. That’s something that never happens to me with movies, but Manhunter is unique in many ways.

Man Hunter ,Silence of the Lambs, and Red Dragon are all three great films that should be watched as a trilogy.

I think one of favorite things is Freddie Lounds was played by tombstone's Ike Clanton - Stephen Lang!

Huge Michael Mann fan. Miami Vice (first season); Last Of The Mohicans, Heat, Collateral. And YES the Miami Vice f**kin' movie. What an amazing director.

Excellent recap of this classic flick -- now if we can only get this on 4K Blu-ray!

I love Manhunter. You can tell it had a huge influence on Bryan Fuller and his approach towards Hannibal in the NBC series, especially with the depiction of Will Graham portrayed by Hugh Dancy.

It’s funny. I saw the movie first. Never realized it was a book. I’m out to diner with a friend & I’m telling them about the great movie I saw. She says that’s Red Dragon 😮 2:00

The entire cast is great.

Brilliant stuff ❤

Hello wewatchedamovie Mike had no idea it was you until the end credits 😂

I first got wind of this film in like 96 or 97....a friend of mine lived in Amsterdam as an exchange student, when he came back he told me he saw some "really creepy prequel to Silence of the Lambs with a different actor playing Dr. Lecter". I thought he had smoked too much European weed or something. He even told me, it was called Man Hunter. And low and behold I was working at K-Mart one Summer and I saw it on VHS by this cheap company.....I bought it that day after work and went home and watched it.......and it blew me away that my buddy was spot on. I still wish they would have left the tattoo on Noonan......but perfection is often unattainable.

After the Silence of the Lambs I read all the books to that point and stumbled on this movie. As an 80's kid I'm a big Peterson fan with To Live and Die on LA. So this was right there. Damn, it's underappreciated.

Thurrough review. You've done Manhunter a great service here. You are no longer an ant in the afterbirth.

Great video! Mike Holtz is way too good to be on that so-so channel...

Frankie Faison has the honour of the only actor to appear in all four Thomas Harris adaptations as Barney the orderly in the Hopkins’ Lector movies as well as a SWAT Team member in Manhunter

Manhunter is currently my favorite Hannibal Lecter movie and Brian Cox is now my favorite Lecter. He isn't the epitome of evil, like Anthony Hopkins. He feels like an actual serial killer.

We hired Brian Cox for a narration role on our last movie. He was such a lovely guy. He didn't eat anyone during the studio session, so that was a bonus.

The soundtrack for this film was perfect too.

Brian is the best Hannibal. Never slept on this movie. Who would want to be in a room with both Brian and Tony?

I hear you Mike Holtz....best Goddamn Michael Myers since James Jude Courtney....and Nick Castle....and Dick Warlock...you know what, you're just a damn good dude

Manhunter is a great movie which bears watching several times - one of my personal benchmarks for how good a film is.

One of my all time favorite movies.

@ValleyOfTheWindFan06

2 ай бұрын

My too i have it on VHS.

Peterson's best role was as Chance in Live and Die in LA, with Willam Dafoe as the bad guy...one of the best car chase scenes also

Found it at a clearance bin of a Blockbuster in the early 2000's, when CSI season 1 was becoming popular, and knowing it was part of the books with Lecter. Never a big fan of Silence of the Lambs I got it and instantly became one of my favorites. It is a masterclass of pacing, cinematography, acting, and editing for anyone interested in that. The 2000's Red Dragon remake with Norton wasn't bad at all, but Manhunter remains the superior film.

Dude, creeped me out in last action hero.😂

Truly awesome movie with brilliant lead of William Peterson (on the back of TLADILA) rest of cast equally brilliant. Forget terrible Red Dragon which it shores DOP with and watch this

Noonan the man.

@kateruterbories2692

2 ай бұрын

He rocked!!

@deeacosta2734

2 ай бұрын

@@kateruterbories2692 way scarier and more believable arc vs Ralph Fiennes. And Ralph is a great actor.

Ohmygod that Steven Segal segment was fuckin' hilarious!!!

Grew up with this as one of my old man's favourite and love the film so much that the footage of Brian Cox in this video was shot by yours truly for the Scream Factory Blu Ray ;)

The Godfather is such a good book….so I must read this

I need to rewatch this film. I saw it as a teen shortly after seeing Silence of the Lambs. I felt like it was just OK. I think I'll enjoy it much more rewatching today.

Excellent underrated film!

While I loved Anthony Hopkins in the role, I think Cox's portrayal of Lecter is more unsettlingly realistic. Hopkins gives us a "magnificent bastard" character with cinematic perfection while Cox offers us an almost caged animal whose every word drips with the contempt he feels toward the man who caught him. He's arrogant and slimy, and dark. At times I feel like one of only a very few who saw this before Silence of the Lambs, back when it was new. When I saw Lambs was when I realized I was watching a sequel to that movie I'd seen and liked back in the 80s and it was awkward telling people that it was a sequel to a movie they'd never heard of.

Great film. I saw it in the theatre when it came out. It was the year of Will Peterson (also in To Live and Die in LA). I remember saying "who is this guy that we've never heard of who is suddenly in 2 major films in one year?". Cox was great as Lector. I was glad I saw it before Lambs. Oh and the whole 'Inna Gadda Da Vida scene' was awesome.

Manhunter is far better than the second film adaptation of Red Dragon.

This movie was amazing!

I remember thinking when I first saw this movie after Red Dragon in early 2000’s, that everything seemed too white. I want to check it out again some twenty years later.

Mike from WWAM!

The movie ahead of it's time.

Shriekback is perfect in this

Didn't like it the first time, mostly just because of the art deco aesthetic. But got over that on the second turn and liked it much more, especially Will Peterson's performance which blows Edward Norton's turn clear out of the water. Third time around I think I finally got it and now consider it a minor masterpiece.

I was so happy when Freddy was a blaze, in a wheelchair, rolling down the ramp. I was 16 and pissed most of the time. lmao. Cox was the best!!!!

Dennis Farina always makes me think of Snatch

Brian Cox based his performance on an infamous Scottish serial killer