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" If you count yourself a fan of 'Silence Of The Lambs' and 'Red Dragon' you ought to be lining up for this one. An absolute shocker in every way imaginable, ' Hannibal Rising' is a fascinating and terrifying journey into the making of a monster. Lecter's original creator, writer Thomas Harris explores the origins of one of the screen's most iconic and memorable characters and cooks up a hell of a beginning! In his breakout performance Gaspard Ulliel will chill you to the bones."

- Pete Hammond/Maxim

"Bone Chilling!"
"Thrilling"
"The true beginning of terror."

-Steve Chupnick / Movieweb

" Hannibal Rising is an inspired look at what makes a monster."- James Oster / JoBlo.com

"Death wish Hannibal Lecter style." - Fred Topel / CanMag

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9FEB07 - HANNIBAL RISING – MAXIM - Review

HANNIBAL RISING

reviewed by:
Pete Hammond
Taking beloved horror icons back to their roots to show how they became the way they are is a new trend taking hold in Hollywood; and now it's Hannibal Lecter's turn. If you count yourself a fan of the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon you ought to be lining up for this one. An absolute shocker in every way imaginable, Hannibal Rising is a fascinating and electrifying journey into the making of a monster.

http://www.maximonline.com/entertainment/reviews.aspx?p_id=12620

9FEB07 - HANNIBAL RISING – LA Times- Article

They created a (proto) monster
In 'Hannibal Rising,' a wartime back story cooks up a context to explain the future cannibalistic killer's descent into savagery.
By Michael Ordoña
Special to The Times
February 9, 2007

He's an orphaned immigrant who ascended to the top of the psychiatric
profession. An accomplished author, gourmet and patron of the arts, he's a
true Renaissance man. And he kills and eats people.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-hannibal9feb09,1,3759919.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

9FEB07 - HANNIBAL RISING – ABC News - Joel Siegel Review

ABC News
Review: "Hannibal Rising"

"It's much better than I thought it would be. I'm not the kind of guy who watches these movies. I saw it with my eyes closed, and they weren't closed enough. But there are people who love it. For those that do, it's very, very scary. It's a very scary nightmare.
It also reminded me why the original was such a great film, because Anthony Hopkins was so good. If you like that kind of thing, and if you can keep your eyes open, you'll be scared."

-Joel Siegel

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Joel%20Siegel/story?id=2863383&page=2

9FEB07 - HANNIBAL RISING – Bloody-disgusting.com- Review

Hannibal Rising Review

By Mr. Disgusting

February 09, 2007

"This is, in my opinion, the best Hannibal film since SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and it did carry a little of that “bite” I was hoping for."

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/review/480

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/480

9FEB07 - HANNIBAL RISING – Variety - Article

'Hannibal' rises again in Europe

By ARCHIE THOMAS

LONDON — Upmarket slasher "Hannibal Rising" looks to carve out a decent opening in Europe this weekend while in Blighty the continued absence of "Night at the Museum" leaves the door open for "Charlotte's Web" to lure in the kids.
Despite lacking the presence of Anthony Hopkins, "Hannibal" is expected to topple last weekend's big opener "Night at the Museum" from the top of the charts in Italy.

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=print_story&articleid=VR1117959085&categoryid=1278

6FEB07 - HANNIBAL RISING – Variety - Article

CBS tweaks 'Hannibal' ad
Last-minute edit made to Super Bowl spot

BY DADE HAYES

Even movie blurbmeisters apparently are not safe from broadcast decency standards.
An ad for the Weinstein Co.'s "Hannibal Rising" that aired late in Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast underwent a last-minute edit to tone down its content, according to two key figures involved in the spot.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117958797.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&query=hannibal+rising

5FEB07 - HANNIBAL RISING – Newsday - Article

TALK ABOUT CANNIBALIZED STORIES
The new prequel to the Hannibal Lecter saga is now a book, a movie and a sign of things to come.

BY AILEEN JACOBSON
Newsday Staff Writer

Dripping blood and morsels of human flesh, the hotly anticipated film "Hannibal Rising" opens in multiplexes across the nation this Friday.

But hey, didn't the novel about the youthful development of the world's favorite cannibal debut just two months ago? Shouldn't there be several years of "taking meetings," talking "turnaround" and arguing over screenplays before it's made into a movie? Did the producers speed-read ... and then speed-film?

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/ny-ethann0205,0,7494288.story

4FEB07 - HANNIBAL RISING – NY TIMES & The Herald Tribune - Article

Sympathy for a Devil: Hannibal, Manic Avenger
By TERRENCE RAFFERTY

EMPATHY, everybody knows, can be kind of a mixed blessing. Fine human quality though it may be, it is not obviously useful in pursuits like business and war, which seem to be shaping up as the major occupations of the 21st century. So there’s no reason, really, to be surprised that the movies (and television and commercial fiction) can now, with relative impunity, offer up the once despised psychopath — who feels no empathy — as at least a semiheroic figure, a fulfillment of one of those fantasies that grow like pesky molds in the unfinished basements of our pop-culture souls.

February 4, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/movies/04raff.html?_r=1&ref=movies&oref=slogin

February 1, 2007

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/01/style/fmreview2.php?page=2

4FEB07 - HANNIBAL RISING – New York Post - Article

TENDERIZED
By SARA STEWART
NY Post

February 4, 2007 -- In the movies, there's nothing like a royally screwed-up childhood to mold a memorable character. Just ask Batman, Willy Wonka, Norman Bates . . .
Now we can add one more to that list: Hannibal Lecter, whose murderous taste for human flesh is explained - maybe even absolved, a little - in the prequel "Hannibal Rising," in theaters Friday.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02042007/entertainment/movies/tenderized_movies_sara_stewart.htm

4FEB07 - HANNIBAL RISING – New York Daily News - Article

IT'S ALIVE!

By MICHAEL GILTZ
Sunday, February 4th, 2007

When "Hannibal Rising" opens Friday, it will be the fifth film in a franchise that has already grossed more than $800 million worldwide at the box office. And it'll be yet another example of Hollywood's ongoing love for a successful movie series.

http://www.nydailynews.com/02-04-2007/entertainment/movies/story/494181p-416246c.html

2FEB07 - HANNIBAL RISING – MTV.com & VH1.com - Article

'Hannibal Rising' Explores How Lecter Got So Deliciously Evil
French actor Gaspard Ulliel plays young cannibal in film that explores his origins.

by Shawn Adler

Source: Date: Feb 2, 2007
BEVERLY HILLS, California — He's killed, he's maimed, he's, gulp, been known to have "an old friend for dinner." He has been the psychotic, wicked center of four movies — a brilliant evil so great he was recently named the number-one villain of all time by the American Film Institute. He's murdered, and murdered and murdered ...

http://www.mtv.com/#/movies/news/articles/1551326/20070201/story.jhtml

http://www.vh1.com/movies/news/articles/1551326/20070201/story.jhtml

30JAN07 - HANNIBAL RISING – LA Premiere

RISING TO THE OCCASION
Hannibal film infused with newcomers

Source: www.variety.com Date: Jan 30, 2007
' Rising' to the occasion Hannibal film infused with newcomers By ANTHONY D'ALESSANDRO...WHAT: Friday's L.A. premiere of MGM-Weinstein Co.'s " Hannibal Rising" at the Pacific Design Center. WHO: Producers Dino and Martha...

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117958279?categoryid=38&cs=1

16Jan07 - HANNIBAL RISING - BoingBoing.net - Article

HANNIBAL RISING: HANNIBAL LECTER'S ORIGIN MYTH

Source: www.boingboing.net Date: Jan 16, 2007
Hannibal Rising is Thomas Harris's latest book in his wildly successful Hannibal Lecter/Silence of the Lambs series. Harris has written precious few novels -- a thriller called Black Sunday and the four Lecter novels -- in thirty years. But for all that he's a very occasional writer, his books loom large in the popular consciousness, and with good reason. They're very, very good.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/16/hannibal_rising_hann.html

AFI's 100 YEARS...100 HEROES & VILLAINS

Source: www.afi.com

GOOD AND EVIL RIVAL FOR TOP SPOTS IN AFI's 100 YEARS…100 HEROES & VILLAINS

ATTICUS FINCH OF "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD" PROCLAIMED #1 HERO AND DR. HANNIBAL LECTER OF "THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS" DECLARED #1 VILLAIN

http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/handv.aspx