IFWT #29 - Manhunter (1986)

5 years before Jonathan Demme brought us The Silence of the Lambs, Michael Mann would be the first to bring Hannibal Lector off the page and onto the big screen. Adapted from Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon, the first in his Hannibal series, Manhunter is a completely different beast to The Silence of the Lambs and the films that would follow. Gone are the gothic inflections and the Grand Guignol of Demme's masterpiece and in are the icy cool modernist neo-noir expressionism of Mann's Manhunter. 

Stick with us as we discuss this cult film that has only grown in stature over the years and, unavoidably, comb over the comparisons between Manhunter and Bret Rattner's 2002 Adaptation Red Dragon.