Manhunter (1986) - Clip 1: A Skillful Entry (HD)

[@JohnWesleyDowney]

A highly underrated movie, now largely forgotten. William Petersen gave the performance of a lifetime in this film. Superb actor.

[@freddie26123]

JohnWesley Downey .... I agree!!

[@JW...-oj5iw]

Not to diminish WP in any way, but nods to Michael Mann and his casting director are certainly in order. Brilliance, bar none.

[@Snipes-76]

Check out “To Live and Die in LA” - his best role in my opinion

[@ChrisWolff2013]

He looked the part and played it perfectly.

[@plissken2156]

Ironic how William Petersen went on to continue this type of on-screen work in C.S.I. later on.

[@hodwatt5901]

You never see the murders take place but you can vividly picture them as Will describes it. It's truly chilling.

[@5eurocups2005]

Brilliant comment.

[@hodwatt5901]

5eurocups2005 Thank you very much!

[@sambit2901singh]

Indeed so well put...the apprehension of suggesting the terrible & ghastly events without showing them affirms Michael Mann’s genius at work here just like Spielberg’s suggestion of the shark in Jaws did to instil fear in us...

[@joytoy512]

It’s so much better than Red Dragon. Peterson is better than Norton, Noonan is better and more believable than Fines. And Cox is age appropriate to Silence of The Lambs. Hopkins is brilliant but it’s before Lambs and he’s clearly older.

[@hodwatt5901]

@milster Less is more.

[@andyastrand]

The thing is how this is Will being clinical, professional, his mind isn’t back in the game, he asks questions, he’s incisive, but he’s not feeling it. Later he approaches the same house again but this time with the mind of a killer. The difference in dialog is chilling.

[@welcometothemovies9157]

The fact he wears cloths similar to Dolarhyde the 2nd time he's going in the house

[@stephenmason1028]

It's such a distinction to show the aftermath of the horrible crime instead of showing it occurring. Your imagination fills in the little spots on its own which kind of individualizes the horror aspect.

[@2icelollys1goat]

Directors pander to the their audience, these days. You're spot on in how you allude to the subtle mastery and deft touch Mann possesses.

[@LaurenMiddleton28]

The aftermath is always more horrifying.. its always the unknown that scares you the most..

[@jamesdonovan5165]

Can't believe it was 36 years ago this film came out. The soundtrack is still incredible.

[@magetaaaaaa]

Definitely has that 80's vibe to it but that was such a good vibe.

[@captainbeastazoid7084]

Yeah, it's very 80s but it also has a modern air to it as well. There was alot of 2010s horror films that had stuff like this.

[@GurpreetSingh-by5ih]

I think it is used in Manhunt game

[@ferdinandwang1165]

A slice of the 1980s was superbly caught in every frame of this film.

[@FuzzyDan]

An amazing film and a snapshot of great 80's cinema. The photography and set design is pure Michael Mann. It's the Hannibal Lector universe seen through a Miami Vice lens. Totally engrossing.

[@cagneybillingsley2165]

i love the colors he choses for this film, pale and pastel. white and clinical. not sure if there's any thematic implication behind it other than for aesthetics, perhaps it contrasted well with the redness of the blood. his films are also very grainy, like a dusty texture overlaid. it gives a great sense of nostalgia

[@gabrieldiwester]

Totally agree. I think the movie got the aesthetic of the 80s and some dark ambient of a truly Thriller/Horror movie. The photography is in white/grey tons, but the music and some shots are more darker. Is really impressive.

[@anonymousoffspring1566]

My favorite out of all of these films. Unbelievable how few people know about it. For those of you who may be skeptical about the absence of Anthony Hopkins, don't be. Brian Cox is legendary.

[@cv507]

HölLD yer feyäehr legiönärr 90s mövies s... v v

[@fletcherhamilton3177]

I actively prefer Cox to be honest.

[@GurpreetSingh-by5ih]

I knew it and I watched it before SOTL & red dragom

[@ssssssstssssssss]

Brian Cox is definitely scarier. Like he feels like an actual manipulative pyschopath. Hopkins is more entertaining, but a bit campy. I think they are both great, especially if you just look at Silence of the Lambs and Manhunter

[@usmanqudrat9103]

The aesthetic cinematography of this masterpiece is so reminiscent of another masterpiece, which is *Blade Runner*

[@LS-oq3qh]

Also, the plot is to some point similar. It's about an specialized agent/detective trying to hunt down its prey with whom he ends up identifying himself with(Deckard with Roy Batty at the end, Will graham finally seeing the world the way the tooth fairy sees the world)

[@jenmuck]

I’m always thinking about this movie

[@kimmyfreak200]

truth

[@gabrieldiwester]

Michael Mann create since his first film this kind of aestethic. His first film was Thief and came out one year before of Blade Runner.

[@polreamonn]

Like BR, it has an absolutely banging soundtrack.

[@jamesamick2945]

This scene is one of the most chilling scenes in any film for me. The less you show, the more disturbing it is. This scenes shows how alone will is in solving the crime, no one is helping him, he's all alone.

[@casesoutherland4175]

This is an extremely rare example of "tell, don't show". You never see the Tooth Fairy kill the Leeds family, but Graham's narration of what happened allows us the audience to imagine how grisly it was! The soundtrack really helps, too! That constant synthesizer drone gives me chills every time!

[@eyeseer1]

It's not the shock of what you see, but the details of dread, the despair after the fact that lingers after the fact. The imagery of carnage to an innocent light room emphasizes the lingering horror that what happened before was worse than the aftermath.

[@baphochrist]

That this didn't win best picture, best adaptation, best director, best soundtrack, best actor, best screenplays beyond me. A true masterpiece of a film. The best of its franchise, and I say that as someone who loves Silence Of The Lambs.

[@lonestar6709]

What makes this scene even more shocking is when Graham finishes his sit-rep and the answerphone goes off, hearing Mrs Leeds' voice. Made me cold to the bone.

[@livir3361]

Outstanding film, superb soundtrack. Watched again recently for the first time in ages and still gets me. So moody raw primal.

[@JW...-oj5iw]

Thomas Noonan has been known to immerse himself into his roles. Sometimes to the point of freaking out his fellow actors. I could see that reaction to the Dollarhyde character.

[@Bigbaz86]

His sheer size was so impactful in this role

[@kimmyfreak200]

he has that serial killer voice...listen to the freddy lounds scene then hear leonard lake's voice on his creepy tapes the way he speaks to his victims in a flat dead matter of fact emotionless voice...they are so similar... and the part that creeped me out the most is when tom noonan goes to put in his dentures and turns around and smiles....it just gives me chills.

[@servicekid7453]

He actually refused to mingle with other actors around the production, so often the first time they met him was when they were doing scenes together. So, the first time Will Pedersen met Tom Noonan on set was when they were shooting the climax of the film. I guess they must have had a table read together with the rest of the cast at some point pre-production

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

He had a small role in another Michael Mann film, the awesome "Heat."

[@AW-kr9fl]

I love this scene. The music, the cinematography, the style and William Petersen’s delivery was awesome. Absolute masterpiece.

[@tomh.2405]

There's just something so strangely chilling about that terse line, "His entry was skillful."

[@plissken2156]

Michael Mann sometimes creates a kind of mutual respect between his antagonist and protagonist characters. For example, in Heat when Neil McCauley learns that Vincent Hanna is 'impressed' by his criminal operations and compliments him on them, "He does this sharp, and that sharp. Look how sharp he does this."

[@Paraprax]

Crazy that Petersen was only 33 here - those eyes convey having seen a lifetime. Great performance.

[@AlexJEdits]

The beginning to this film has some of the best moments. You really believe Petersen was a professional forensics expert. He had that look and aura.

[@ThekidManson]

The best Lector movie, hands down

[@coath514]

Absolutely chilling scene as the sound just sets the tone of the scene perfectly. The same scene in red dragon has the loud jump scare music when he turns on the lights and we see the gruesome scene. Works so much better here

[@alexthompson3228]

Prefer this scene but liked the red dragon version as well especially when will tries to talk about the children and has to stop

[@shessoheavy6130]

A very good movie. Michael Mann's usually are.

[@Oldag75]

During this scene, the phone rang -- and Will heard the recorder answer, "This is Valerie Leeds." That was in the book, and in this film -- it was incredibly creepy. Why that vignette was omitted from the remake is a mystery.

[@adrianneavenicci]

This is at the point where I started watching the film when I first saw it on TV as a teenager and I was hooked. This film is a masterpiece. William Petersen is superb and the soundtrack is very 80s but still wonderfully atmospheric. The scene with the tiger is unforgettable. Red Dragon was disappointing in comparison and Edward Norton wasn’t a patch on William Petersen.

[@gvd72]

Both Manhunter and Red Dragon are fantastic. I think both movies had their advantages over the other, but Manhunter had a better Graham imo though I do believe Red Dragon’s was also good as well. I like to give credit where credit is due.

[@dogfan4lyfe]

BigxBadxBlake yes you’re right. Both have their place.

[@tomh.2405]

Yeah, I'm a Manhunter partisan myself (while I like Edward Norton in general, William Petersen will always be Will Graham to me) -- that being said, the best thing about Red Dragon is how it incorporated some of the good stuff from the book that got left out of Mann's movie. For example, that wonderful scene with Will and Reba in the hospital after the story is (seemingly) wrapped up. "You didn't draw a freak, you drew a man with a freak on his back."

[@johndaugherty4127]

This movie rocks from top to bottom. Greatest Hannibal ever and that is saying something. This guy is a soul drain on humanity. Brian Cox.

[@Maximus4587]

Also, Tom Noonan's portrayal of Francis Dolarhyde/"The Tooth Fairy" is *pure, unfiltered nightmare fuel.*

[@BruceStephan]

I disagree . There's many scenes in Red Dragon where it looks like the actors are just reading their lines and the pacing never seemed right .

[@HailAnts]

I saw this at the movies. Knew nothing about it, didn't know it was based on a book by a semi-famous author. Barely knew who director Michael Mann was ( _Miami Vice_ ). But I followed the plot perfectly and loved every minute of it! The slick 80s style, the electronic music, the way they slowly track the killer down. It was a great film. They only remade it so Anthony Hopkins could play Lecter again. Although the remake was good too!

[@eddiemoney1093]

I originally saw this movie totally blind to what it was not ever having read the book or made the connection to silence of the lambs and I must say it was truly terrifying and captivating. Simply one of the best movies of it's type that exist.

[@jaromirkrol3950]

Will's ascent of the Leeds' stairs mirrors Francis's ascent in the opening of the picture, to the point of casting the light in the same spots - but whereas Francis's ascent was trembling, excited and expectant, Will's exploratory journey up the staircase is careful, attentive - and apprehensive for entirely different reasons.

[@HenryChinaski614]

A masterpiece. I watched the original at the theater. I just scored the original soundtrack on CD. An important film to me. Thanks.

[@johndaugherty4127]

One of the best movies ever made. By far the best Hannibal Lektor movie.

[@doomguydemonkiller]

The Batman 2022 seems to have gotten inspirations from Manhunter rather than Silence of the lambs.

[@ShadowSonic2]

Silence of the Lambs is more of a psychological horror story, this is more of a Crime Drama Character Piece. Not that much blood we actually see on screen...which actually can make it MORE Disturbing.

[@KevinStriker]

So much more of an effective scene, just letting the music build and lingering on the scene of the crime. Red Dragon with Edward Norton felt the need for two jumpscares, which should tell you everything.

[@jasmeg2844]

I've only seen clips of this movie on KZbin, but the ending seems like a bad fit with the rest of the movie. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida over a big cop shootout isn't very creepy.

[@rossdiamondthief6627]

National Acrobat that’s why I like Red Dragon, it had a better 3rd act climax

[@SIKE01]

the first...and the best, Michael The Mann's masterpiece.

[@robdean704]

The lights on in the bedroom scene is shocking. It's a great film

[@propheticwitness8624]

This film is so good,it truly is addictive....

[@wordman3624]

I don't know how in the world William Petersen didn't become a superstar after this film and To Live and Die in L.A. He's so great in this movie and had it all: looks, acting chops, chrisma. Like Michael Biehn, it's baffling.

[@FrankCostanza-dr4qd]

Heat and collateral are Michael Mann most brilliant films. I always thought manhunter was an overlooked gem in his career. My favourite Hannibal lecter film.

[@Felix-Sited]

This is so much better than Red Dragon.

[@rossdiamondthief6627]

Felix Sited Manhunter has way better acting performances Red Dragon has a better story structure

[@luislizard2626]

I went to see red dragon at the cinema I left very pissed off And never watched it again and Hannibal is so overplayed that is not even scary but annoying Crap

[@shawn6669]

@@rossdiamondthief6627 I'm with you on the first one, but what, pray tell, makes Red Dragon have "better story structure". The "structure" of a story is simply how it's organized to tell the story. Michael Mann tells the story 10,000 times better than whoever put "Red Dragon" together. If you mean that it sticks more tightly to the book, I still don't think it has any relevance. Manhunter is a work of art. Red Dragon was a product and a cash grab.

[@jonnywose2528]

Brian Cox portrays the banality of evil whereas Anthony Hopkins goes full pantomime villain

[@captainbeastazoid7084]

Such an amazing film. Really just has a tremendous vibe/atmosphere about it. Def my favorite of the whole series.

[@kevinswift850]

what a fantastic movie poster at the end it would make; the colours are so sharp and vibrant.

[@bryangonzales974]

One of the best movies ever made

[@Treblaine]

Ahh 1980's torches, where they just kinda faintly colour the surroundings without illuminating anything. Torches today its kinda spooky how bright they are.

We called them “flashlights” back in the 80’s.

[@Treblaine]

@ Yeah, everyone knows US dialect and you could obviously tell what I meant by "torch".

[@johnbannon2812]

Great movie great actor for lecter. Anthony Hopkins brought the character to another level.

[@Iluvbisquits]

This movie is brilliant...in every way...

[@ferdinandwang1165]

I was not expecting much from Red Dragon, so I enjoyed it just as much as I thought I would. It shows things that Manhunter doesn't. Still, this one scene gets creepier each time I watch it. Manhunter lets the viewer imagine what happened, and that is what makes it so talked about. And I love how it captures the cool decade of the 1980s. What's not to like?

[@tomh.2405]

I'm definitely a "Manhunter" partisan, but one slight advantage to RD is that it includes that nice scene between Graham and Reba in the latter's hospital room after her escape from Dolarhyde. She's depressed because she thinks some horrible flaw in her is the reason Francis was drawn to her, and Graham kindly offers her some reassurance ("You didn't draw a freak, you drew a man with a freak on his back").

[@johnkeenan1829]

to this day, I still remember the gasp from the audience when he turned on the lights.

[@robdeam7893]

My favourite of the lambs films, you almost feel the shock as if it was a real life event

[@AL13NM]

A superior adaptation of a great novel! I'd like to see David Fincher attempt to top this, I'm sure it would be spectacular as well!

[@TheGloopOfMobius]

Probably my favourite on screen adaptation of Red Dragon.

[@samanthab1923]

I watched this first then read the book never knowing it was Red Dragon. Love Michael Mann & it has a lot of his looks.

[@tommyfindlay]

One of the best serial killer movies ever made 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😳

[@coleysanders3859]

William Peterson, so cool and humble as he went abt his business.

[@grahamblack1961]

I like Edward Norton but he was too lightweight in the role. Peterson is so inscrutable and dark, he gives almost nothing away, just hints at the inner tumoil he's hiding.

[@BruceStephan]

I saw this either on local TV station or on a basic cable channel and was blown away . This is one of the casualties of the year of ALIENS .

[@jmp01a24]

Wow I need to get the remastered release of this 1986 classic that totally blew my mind when seeing it for the first time around 1990. It was after Silence of the Lambs, iirc. But I liked this cause of the way the detective dive into the mind of the killer, tries to catch who he is, why he does what he does. Only movie or tv series that could compare to this was the classic tv-series called TOUCHING EVIL. For anyone that has not seen this epic tv-sieres, that got an unfair cancel during the 2nd season, its a must.

[@billbixby557]

I caught this on TV in the 80s as a kid...the cold, sterile, white ( even white on white ) indoor environments always seemed to me like a separate character...passively watching the action, encompassing everything and everyone in a somewhat otherworldly cocoon. Hanibal was cool too.

[@Aquamentii]

One thing never mentioned in the movie is that the ‘undxplained’ bloodstains on the wall belong to the children. So after killing everyone, the killer brings them into the bedroom and sits them up to be an ‘audience’ for his ritual. Will’s first thought when trying to think like the killer is how the dancing flame of candle light would be a good way to simulate expression on their dead faces.

[@ArachKing]

True. By contrast Red Dragon does mention it

[@royfontaine5526]

It doesn’t need to be said, and he alludes to them being moved when he asks himself what the killer did to them after they were dead. Another reason why this is way more superior than Red Dragon.

[@awshortclips]

I've watched this movie at least two dozen times. I remember watching it on VHS, inviting people over to watch, and sometimes going to people's homes to share. I remember this scene clearly. However, the magnitude of the crime scene never came out as crisp as this. In fact, it was a bit shocking. I need to get a better copy of this movie as I own it digitally but not the blueray version.

[@ziweiyuan]

I read the Red Dragon novel before I saw this picture, or Red Dragon, or the Hannibal TV series. William Petersen looks and sounds the most like the Will Graham I saw in my head, better than Hugh Dancy and far better than Edward Norton. To me his depiction of Graham will always be the most accurate.

[@davidellis5141]

The Films ! You've Seen Them ! Haven't You My Man !

[@dagger1580]

William Peterson will always be the best Will Graham for me! Peterson just nailed how the character is like in the book

[@rickbowman4733]

It didn’t do very well at the box office but this movie became a cult classic

[@Ribby00]

Damn I love that music

[@jamesamick2945]

Will Graham was the original tv or movie profiler, before x files before criminal minds there was will Graham. And will Graham didn't have a whole team to work with he did it all on his own.

[@losthighway8141]

Petersen was so cool in this...such a great movie!

[@01evolution01]

Remember the first time I saw this scene. When he first turned on the light, the red clashing with the white in the bright light. It was very jarring.

[@lisa-el3db]

When directors want the audience's imaginations to go to that dark side, show the crime scene and not the actual crime taking place, scary as hell. Reminds me of "Jaws", seeing the woman, ever so content in the water, relaxed, then the tug on her leg. Being pulled side to side, her screams of terror. Then her remains are found and only fill a large pan. I know the shark machine was not up and running, malfunctions galore, it is because you can't see the shark, it never looses the impact of seeing it the first time. Midnight, dark water, all alone, being "ripped to pieces", no one hears her screams, then she is silenced. Still scary as hell.

[@thiscorrosion900]

Nowadays they'd have the DNA fast, but still no match given Francis has no record (presumably).

[@kkoke9347]

I

[@fraser_mr2009]

he didn't sexually abuse them.

[@timcowl7630]

By the time we get to Hannibal, Hopkins’ Lector is campy, but not as creepy…I’ve always thought this was the best of the films that make up the Hannibal story arc. Michael Mann’s 80’s cool is all over it, and Brian Cox gives me what I’ve always imagined a psychopathic psychiatrist to be: manipulative, frightening, and also completely unaware of his own psychosis. William Petersen is suberb - he looks haunted during the entire film, but also displays that fascination with the killer that allows him to make connections that no one else could. Just a great film!

[@abc-ni9uw]

Red dragon kiss my arse. 1986 Mr mann classic killer theme tune. Made when I was brought into this terrible world

[@anita-ef7io]

I walked out of the theater couldn't handle it

[@MichaelSmith-uw2tl]

Badass flick!

[@JeffreyGlover65]

This movie is far superior to "Red Dragon". I loved it when it came out, but read the book. The book is amazing, better than "Silence of The Lambs", which was also amazing.

[@davidellis5141]

The 🎶 ! 😨

[@13DarkMelody]

Reminds me of the Nightstalker

[@amyj5603]

Early Gil Grissom scene, before he moved to las vegas 🤩

[@stephentaylor7275]

an amazing film Michael Mann a true visionary. Will Peterson in an amazing perfromance Dennis Farina also. So much better than Red Dragon And Brian Cox was very underated as Lecktor

[@johndaugherty4127]

Bryan Cox made this movie. All were great though.

[@dzqbyripley4631]

Harris wrote an amazing story. Movie is a good one obviously, as next performance Red dragon.

[@fatfreddyscoat7564]

Todays movie goers have no imagination: masterful horror like this will totally pass them by as they need visual jump scares to tell them when something scary is happening, which makes it absolutely sterile and boring if you have to point it out.

[@TBrl8]

Best will graham here, best lector later on.

[@TarockMusic]

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[@SimranjeetKaur-pf7hj]

Much similar to Red Dragon

[@plasticweapon]

ya think?

[@siberwolf33]

Carpeted floors must give violent home invaders real relief.

[@Stevesk0011]

Is this whole movie solid white?

[@lisa-el3db]

As was 'Carmon Jones', all black. And as long as the script, the actors and directors are good, that is all that matters. This was based on John Douglas, an FBI profiler, who worked with the police force to catch this monster, and, would catch the monster, no matter their skin color.

[@fraser_mr2009]

@@lisa-el3db based on douglas? don't think so. nobody even knew who he was back then

[@mikemcgrath6150]

@@lisa-el3db I think he was referring to the color of the background? Rooms, paint, carpet, furniture, etc, all white in color.

[@goodstuff8156]

Because white is best

[@robertmiles1603]

huh. kinda looks like someone took a huge grainy dump all over the place

[@brave-antics7467]

Bruh the blood looks so unrealistic but it’s a good try in portraying a murder

[@jonnybirchyboy1560]

This is actually realistically how it would look. Blood turns a rusty brown colour over time. More realistic than Red Dragon anyway

[@brave-antics7467]

@@jonnybirchyboy1560 I’m not talking about the color, the streaks it doesn’t match the description of the murder.

[@royfontaine5526]

@@brave-antics7467 of course it does, it looks like how you’d imagine arterial spray to look - also the patches on the bed and the smudges on the floor.

[@brave-antics7467]

@@royfontaine5526 no, depending on the arterial spray, if it is close up it would be smaller more fine streaks, splatter and drips (they would be smaller) but as in far away it would be bigger more bulky but not that bulky more like a thick shoe string, but it would be less in a line and more jagged and splotchy as the spray hits the wall from the angle the person struck at, to my eye it looks unrealistic I’ve studied blood spatter, and forensics, this to a naked eye would look absolutely almost spot on but in actuality it’s not, there’s a lot of mistakes, this is just someone taking a hose and spraying it to have the look of the arterial spray, but for the most part human beings to get the arteries to spray a big cut to the collateral artery at a 115 to a 250 degree angle right under the jaw bone, just a couple centimeters, which would cause a spray similar to a faucet running at the lowest pressure, though it is possible the spray can become more powerful as the heart pumps the blood out.

[@royfontaine5526]

@@brave-antics7467 I disagree, but you seem quite the expert on arterial spray? 😳

[@ratman3752]

Best hannibal movie after silence of the lambs proof me wrong