A killer career is launched in "Hannibal Rising," which explains how the character became the cunning cannibal of later repute. This upmarket slasher is a well-produced but slow-moving thriller that ...

So this is how a cannibalistic serial killer is born. "Hannibal Rising" starts in Lithuania near the end of World War II, when a boy and girl shiver in their home after having just watched their ...

Anthony Hopkins leaves big shoes to fill. As a young Hannibal Lector, French newcomer Gaspard Ulliel certainly tries. While the veteran actor ably infused the despicable "Hannibal the Cannibal" with a ...

— “Hannibal Rising” (available in R and unrated versions), the prequel about how Hannibal Lecter of “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Manhunter” fame came to be. — “Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniversary ...

No…energy…Won’t…be able…to write…my usual…3,000 words…Can’t…crack…jokes…Must…blame…Hannibal Rising. This movie drained me. But not in the ...

Twenty-five years after Hannibal Lecter, a cross between Professor Moriarty and Jack the Ripper, first invaded the imaginations of countless readers worldwide in Red Dragon, bestseller Harris has ...

I thought that this film would be an early front-runner for the worst of 2007: another Hannibal Lecter movie arriving with little fanfare. Well, director Peter Webber has made a good-looking yet ...