10 Things Hannibal Does Better Than The Movies

5. Horror To The Extreme

In the second episode of season two, Sakizuki, the victim wakes up sewn into a murial of human bodies. What follows is one of the most shocking, uncomfortable moments in the show€™s history as he tears himself free - literally - from the other corpses and tries to make a frantic escape from the killer. Back in season one we had something as chilling as the Sloth man in the movie Seven - humans buried in the Earth, mushrooms growing from their bodies. Audiences were sick and shocked at the same time when one of the victims woke up. Not to mention the two victims in season one€™s Coquilles kneeling at the foot of their bed, the skin off their backs strung up like angel wings. Biblical imagery transformed into Gothic Horror before our very eyes. The films certainly delved into the macabre but nothing on the scale of the TV series. Week on week we have seen the horrors of humanity unfold before the FBI€™s eyes. Much of it is at Hannibal€™s hands but through the investigations of the first two seasons we have witnessed some truly horrific murders from a multitude of killers. The show has brought a level of horror to television few shows have been able to emulate. You have to wonder what goes through Bryan Fuller and his fellow writer€™s head to conjure these ideas. But they have done Thomas Harris€™s novels justice by expanding the horror that fills the world of Hannibal Lecter.