Hannibal Rising

Why tonight?

• ◆It goes hard on violence and frights — not a wind-down.

The story

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill and learnt sword skills from his Japanese girlfriend, who happened to have similar fate

• mask
• based on novel or book
• winter
• psychopath
• world war ii
• lithuania
• revenge
• decapitation
• psychological thriller
• strangulation