Manhunter (Blu-ray) R
It's just you and me now, sport…
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 13, 2011
- Originally Released: 1986
- Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | William Petersen & Brian Cox | |
Performer: | Kim Greist, Dennis Farina, Stephen Lang, Joan Allen, Tom Noonan, Brian Kelly, Chris Elliott, Frankie Faison & Patricia Charbonneau | |
Directed by | Michael Mann | |
Edited by | Dov Hoenig | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Mann | |
Original story by | Thomas Harris | |
Produced by | Richard Roth & Dino De Laurentiis | |
Director of Photography: | Dante Spinotti | |
Executive Production by | Bernard Williams |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[Mann] mounts his film with the speed of a bullet train and virtually defies us to get off while it's in motion...
Los Angeles Times
...Brian Cox has some delicious moments as a brilliant, depraved criminal....Stephen Lang is outrageously despicable...
Variety
One of the most impressive American thrillers of the late '80s.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
This is a truly suspenseful, stylish thriller, sadly overlooked since the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs.
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BBC.com
Rating: 7/10 --
At the very worst an intriguing misfire, and often much better than that.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: 5/5 --
Mann's visual aesthetic combined with the source material of Harris is a slick and tense package with its own unique boatload of frights.
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Father Son Holy Gore
... "Manhunter" is a gory and gorgeous cop thriller...
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Washington Post
Product Description:
Retired FBI agent Will Graham (William L. Petersen) returns to action to hunt down a serial killer by using his ability to get inside the psychopath's mind. However, it was this ability that drove him into retirement in the first place. The process of tracking and capturing the infamous Hannibal Lecter (Brian Cox) took a tremendous psychic toll on Graham, causing him to spent time in a mental hospital. With another madman on the loose, Graham has no choice but to return to duty, though he knows that it might cost him his family and his sanity.
To get the old mind-set back, Graham visits Hannibal Lecter in his high-security jail cell. However, the manipulative Lecter plays both sides and warns the new killer that Graham is on his trail, telling him to destroy Graham's family to protect himself. In order to save his own family, Graham must risk everything to once again enter into the mind of the criminally insane.
With MANHUNTER, Mann raises the bar for serial killer films, imbuing his killer with an almost sympathetic quality while keeping him extremely menacing and clearly dangerous. Based on the Thomas Harris novel RED DRAGON, which serves as the prequel to THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, MANHUNTER is a masterpiece of gripping storytelling and psychological horror.
To get the old mind-set back, Graham visits Hannibal Lecter in his high-security jail cell. However, the manipulative Lecter plays both sides and warns the new killer that Graham is on his trail, telling him to destroy Graham's family to protect himself. In order to save his own family, Graham must risk everything to once again enter into the mind of the criminally insane.
With MANHUNTER, Mann raises the bar for serial killer films, imbuing his killer with an almost sympathetic quality while keeping him extremely menacing and clearly dangerous. Based on the Thomas Harris novel RED DRAGON, which serves as the prequel to THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, MANHUNTER is a masterpiece of gripping storytelling and psychological horror.
Keywords:
Action
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Cannibalism
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Psychos
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Killer
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Recommended
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Disturbing
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema