The 8 Most Creative Killers From NBC’s Hannibal
John Squires
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This week marks the return of NBC’s “Hannibal,” the show kicking off its third season on Thursday night. In the wake of Season 2’s shocking and brutal finale, I simply cannot wait to see what former BFFs Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham are up to now, nor can I wait for “Hannibal” to reclaim its spot as the best damn horror show on TV.
In addition to incredible acting, an enthralling storyline, and stunning visuals aplenty, one of the truly impressive things about the show is the ability of the writers to consistently dream up some of the most creative killers in the history of morbid entertainment, whom our old pal Hannibal was oftentimes helping the FBI to track down.
So creative are those killers, and their clever methods of murder, that each and every one of them could quite frankly be given horror movies of their own, and the show has already invited us to be flies on the walls of crime scenes that are more gruesome and disturbing than anything that’s ever been seen in horror cinema.
Today we take a look at eight of those killers, all of whom managed to upstage even the extreme brutality of the cannibalistic Hannibal Lecter!
In Episode 2 of the show’s inaugural season, Will Graham and his FBI cohorts were on the hunt for a serial murderer who literally used the bodies of his victims as fertilizer for the purpose of growing human-mushrooms. As it turns out, the killer was a pharmacist targeting diabetics, and he tainted their insulin in an effort to render them comatose. He then buried his patients alive in shallow graves and covered them with fungi so that mushrooms would sprout out of their decaying bodies. As if being buried alive wasn’t bad enough, am I right?!
Season 1’s fifth episode paid homage to Silence of the Lambs, particularly the scene where Hannibal flayed open the dead body of an officer and hung him from his cell. The killer in the episode does a similar thing to his victims, cutting flaps of flesh from their backs and stringing them up to the ceiling, thereby turning them into human angels. As the brilliant Will Graham surmises, he’s creating these angels to watch over him because he’s got terminal lung cancer and is afraid of dying, and by episode’s end the killer takes his own life, turning himself into one of his macabre creations.
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