r/Hannibal Dec 20 '20

Rules & Guidelines

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Hello, fellow Hannibal fans! No matter how many years pass, this character manages to retain his mystery, deadliness, and ability to fascinate us all. There are still many of us here, and to keep our time here pleasant, there are several guidelines you should follow.

1) Be Polite

This is our main rule. No matter what topic you are discussing or how justified you feel you are, keep things civil. If you feel that someone is crossing the line, please report such comments and they'll be looked into.

2) Use Flairs

This subreddit is dedicated to Hannibal books and movies first and foremost. The show has its own subreddit here r/HannibalTV. Clarice show can be discussed here r/ClariceTVseries. You can still make show-related posts, but please use correct flairs so that people who are only interested in books and/or movies could filter them out and find the content they would like.

3) No Spam

Please make only Hannibal-related posts. Also, don't spam threads with copied comments - discussions should be relevant.

That's about it. Thank you and have a good time!)


r/Hannibal Jun 10 '21

Posts Getting Into Spam

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It has come to my attention that lots of posts in this sub have been going into spam automatically. I manually approved most of them - no idea what's going on with Reddit, but please, if you post something, make sure it's there. We're going to be checking the spam folder on a constant basis now, but if you see you made a post that's not reflected, feel free to contact us and we'll correct it ASAP.


r/Hannibal 1d ago

Movie "Manhunter: The Final Cut" Differences Between Other Cuts?

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For anybody who's seen the new version, what scenes are added/taken away when compared to the theatrical version/previous director's cut? I know some of the Hannibal scenes and ending are extended, but did any of the additional stuff with Will and Molly make it in, specifically the call between them before Will goes to visit Lecktor?


r/Hannibal 2d ago

Book Recommendations

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for books like this series?

I got really into Harris's writing and I'd like to know if anyone felt similar magic in other works.


r/Hannibal 2d ago

Hannibal-Related Fic

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Hello guys is there any hannigram fic with the plot of strangers by ethel cain?


r/Hannibal 5d ago

can anyone help me find margot's shirt?

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r/Hannibal 7d ago

Hannibal TV Show Hannibal Returns to Netflix This July, But Bryan Fuller Says One Thing Still Stands in the Way

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r/Hannibal 8d ago

Was the character Hannibal lector named "Hannibal" because it rhyme with cannibale ?

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r/Hannibal 9d ago

Book I absolutely loved this book, but at the same time, it does feel like a cash grab with a forced/unnecessary romance and very tonaly different to the first two books. But still absolutely loved it in places. Your thoughts?

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r/Hannibal 12d ago

Movie Name of the waltz that plays in that scene in Rising? Spoiler

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That scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abDkxj0tfk4

I really like the waltz, but I have no idea what it is. Help, please.


r/Hannibal 14d ago

Book [Rising Spoilers] It was the complacency of others that allowed Hannibal Lecter to become. Spoiler

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Murasaki got the first taste of what was inside of him when he killed the butcher for her. At first, she was scared. She wasn't certain if he'd turn on her next, but when he didn't, she calmed down and protected Hannibal from the law.

This boy had just killed a man over a petty slight, cut off his head, and brought it as an offering to her ancestral altar. That was more than just a fleeting glympse of what was inside him, that was a front row seat.

But, of course, she didn't let him face the law. He'd get the death penalty. Didn't try to get him psychological/psychiatric help. She became his accomplice because he was her family. Because he was all she had left. Because he did it for her, after all. Because the butcher's petty slight had led to her husband's death. Because she'd lost her family in the war just like Hannibal and understood him.

After that, when he went on his revenge spree, she was still his confidant. Oh, she tried to talk him into stopping, but that's it. She kept his secrets and lied to the police for him.

Speaking of the police, there is Popil. He recognized Hannibal for what he was from the start. He was onto him and knew where the trail of bodies ends. So, what did he do? He had made some token attempts to stop him, yes, but let's face it, those attempts were half-assed at best.

Popil had compassion for Hannibal. He related to him too much. Both had lost families in the war. Both shared the same pain. So, Popil saw too much of himself in that damaged, disturbed boy, and, even though he knew, he didn't do nearly enough to stop him.

Murasaki and Popil were there to witness the early stages of Hannibal's transformation, and they could have done something about it, but they didn't. Through inaction or insufficient action, they let him enter the chrysalis and hatch in peace.

Complacency had as much to do with him growing into what he became as trauma, revenge, or inborn traits did.


r/Hannibal 17d ago

Hannibal-Related "I, on the other hand, know how to cook a sacrifice" - from the diary of an early Hannibal iteration

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r/Hannibal 17d ago

Who do you think played a role so perfectly that you literally cannot imagine anyone else playing it? For me, it has to be Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter

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r/Hannibal 18d ago

Ayuda jeje

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Estoy haciendo digamos un fanfic adaptando hannibal rising para la continuidad de la serie NBC de hannibal pero estoy confundido y algo perdido ya que aunque tengo aquí conmigo la novela hannibal rising como apoyo, solo me sirve prácticamente como una fuente de algunos datos del lore y para inspirar me en los sucesos, pero los eventos de esta historia en la serie fueron diferentes y muchas cosas en general de la serie fueron diferentes a lo que ocurrió en esta novela, una de ellas es que le pasó realmente a los padres de hannibal, en la novela tengo entendido que murieron por un ataque de bombardeo de la segunda guerra mundial, sin embargo como dije la serie difere de esto y es algo ambigua con los detalles, por lo que solicito sugerencias de como adaptar la muerte de los padres de hannibal sin el contexto de la segunda guerra mundial y el bombardeo


r/Hannibal 19d ago

Book Hannibal book cover question

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This is a 2019 edition of the paperback and I cannot find any information at all about what the cover art is - except a small line at the bottom of the back cover “cover photography of winged figure by Leno”. Who on earth is Leno? I can’t seem to find out. Previous cover arts have been very apparent in their references to the series so this one is odd to me.


r/Hannibal 21d ago

Who do you think will win the argument between Judge Holden and Hannibal Lecter?

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r/Hannibal 25d ago

Book Hannibal taking the cattle prod... Spoiler

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r/Hannibal 25d ago

Book Does Hannibal lose an eye near the end of Hannibal (novel)? Spoiler

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I saw these fan art drawings when I was curious about what Hannibal Lecter was imagined looking like by other readers and I came across this one. I haven't read the novel in probably a few years, so I can't remember exactly what happens during the showdown at Verger's pig farm beat-for-beat, just the general major big things. I may have just forgotten, so I can't recall him losing an eye. What exactly happens to him in regard to that?


r/Hannibal 26d ago

Movie Hannibal (2001): The cut “cutting” shot?

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I used to have an old downloaded copy of Hannibal (2001) that I watched many, MANY times during my teenage years and early twenties. Eventually I bought the Blu-ray and ended up losing the old copy to a broken external hard drive.

But when I watched the Blu-ray, I noticed something extremely odd and I was hoping someone might know something about it.

I remember the Paul Krendler brain dinner scene extremely well and clearly, because (and don’t judge me) there was a particular shot of Hannibal that I always found really satisfying, using the blade in his right hand to slice a piece of Krendler’s prefrontal lobe off BEFORE Starling asks for wine and then the closeup shot of him dropping the piece of brain into the pan. Now I am aware that he cuts open the “sac” which contains the brain (the meninges) before peeling it back, but this isn’t what I’m talking about. In the Blu-ray cut I have (and in all of the YouTube videos of this scene) it just cuts from Starling saying “I would really like some wine!” to the brain piece being dropped into the pan. No shot of him actually slicing the piece off.

I haven’t imagined it, it isn’t a false memory. I must have watched the film using the same .mkv file for a good 10 years and in that space of time I probably watched it 15 times. I really like Anthony Hopkins and I think he is superb as Lecter. But the specific fact that I find the shot where he physically slices off the piece so satisfying (and visually impressive from a practical and digital effects perspective) cements the fact I haven’t misremembered it. I suspect it was cut in more recent Blu-ray copies of the film due to classification and the particular shot being deemed extravagantly graphic. But I cannot find a single source to support this. Can anyone shine a light onto this mystery for me please?

TLDR; does anyone else remember the shot of Hannibal physically slicing off the piece of Krendler’s frontal lobe prior to Starling exclaiming that she’d like a glass of wine and then dropping the piece of brain into the pan? Was it cut?

#ReReleaseTheBrainCuttingCut

Edit: corrected a mistake in the order of shots I described.


r/Hannibal 26d ago

Hannibal Tvseries

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Does anyone have G-Drive link for Hannibal season 1 with English sub, its not actually available in my region, really appreciate it.


r/Hannibal 28d ago

Is Francis Dolarhyde's psychosis realistic/believable?

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I am curious if there are any clinical psychologist fans here who might bear the credentials to validate the portrayal of mental illness/diagnose our Dolarhyde-- BASED OFF OF HIS CHARACTER in the "Red Dragon" novel.


r/Hannibal 29d ago

Hannibal TV Show Do you think Hannibal has cried off-screen?

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What's your take? Not weeping wildly, maybe letting out some pain quietly, in a controlled manner? The series has already showed us that Hannibal still feels emotions although the external presentation of them is next to zero.


r/Hannibal Jun 21 '26

Book Where it all began… Spoiler

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“He ate my sister.” (chapter 56, pg. 345)
I just finished the books a few days ago and I keep thinking about this line. He was just a boy and they ate his sister. They killed his family They lived in his home. They stole and sold his family’s art. They ate his sister and they fed her to him. They kidnapped and hurt the last person he truly loved, Lady Murasaki.

When Murasaki has him choose between humanity and his sister, he chose Mischa.
“I already promised Mischa.” (chapter 49, pg. 288)

“He dined alone and he was not lonely. Hannibal had entered his heart’s long winter. He slept soundly, and was not visited in dreams as humans are.” (chapter 57, pg. 354)
He’s not human but he’s so painfully human in his search for his sister. He is what he is because of her, for her. Mischa is Clarice Starling is Mischa is Will Graham is Mischa. He needs to find a place for her.

“The little boy Hannibal died in 1945 out there in the snow trying to save his sister. His heart died with Mischa.” (chapter 53, pg. 324)
I know that he’s not that boy anymore but my heart hurts for 8 year old Hannibal Lecter, watching the deer skull rattle in the pot, trying to escape.


r/Hannibal Jun 20 '26

Book Red Dragon Ending

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I think it’s safe to say Molly leaves Will at the end of Red Dragon. Where I am getting confused is people reference online that she left him and rehomed all his dogs and divorced him. I re-skimmed the ending and didn’t see anything about that. Am I missing something or did that not happen at all?


r/Hannibal Jun 21 '26

Anthony Hopkins! Hannibal fic recommendations

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