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The 40th anniversary director's 'final cut' of Michael Mann's adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon, Manhunter introduced the world to the cannibalistic Dr Hannibal Lecktor, played here by Brian Cox. This was five years before the release of The Silence of the Lambs and Anthony Hopkins' definitive creation of Dr Hannibal Lector.
Three years after leaving the police force, Will Graham is begged by an old colleague to return, to help track down The Tooth Fairy, a serial killer who operates at full moon and has murdered two entire families.
Endowed with a sixth sense, Graham has never used conventional ways to find psychopaths.
Instead, he has developed a method which is dangerous for his own mental health as it allows him to be accepted by people with deranged minds and enables him to construct a path that will lead to the murderer...