| I've never understood how people consider The Silence Of The Lambs a sequel to Manhunter. It was done by an entirely different cast and crew, the film has an entirely different tone, and there is no reference at all in Lambs to the events in Manhunter. The fact that Red Dragon (the book upon which Manhunter is based) was remade to fit into the Anthony Hopkins Lecter canon should cement the fact that Manhunter does not exist within the Hopkins Lecter universe and Silence Of The Lambs is the first film in its series. |