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manhunter
Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone who hunts down a target in a manhunt. 2 A person who searches for men for sex.
Wikipedia
Manhunter is a 1986 American crime horror thriller film based on Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon. Written and directed by Michael Mann, it stars William Petersen as FBI profiler Will Graham. Also featured are Tom Noonan as serial killer Francis Dollarhyde, Dennis Farina as Graham's FBI superior Jack Crawford, and Brian Cox as incarcerated killer Hannibal Lecktor. The film focuses on Graham coming out of retirement to lend his talents to an investigation on Dollarhyde, a killer known as "The Tooth Fairy." In doing so, he must confront the demons of his past and meet with Lecktor, who nearly counted Graham amongst his victims.
Manhunter focuses on the forensic work carried out by the FBI to track down killers and shows the long-term effects that cases like this have on profilers such as Graham, highlighting the similarities between him and his quarry. The film features heavily stylized use of color to convey this sense of duality, and the nature of the characters' similarity has been explored in academic readings of the film. It was the first film adaptation of Harris' Hannibal Lecter novels, as well as the first adaptation of Red Dragon, which later became the basis for a film of the same name in 2002.
Opening to mixed reviews, Manhunter fared poorly at the box office at the time of its release, making only $8.6 million in the United States. However, it has been reappraised in more recent reviews and now enjoys a more favorable reception, as both the acting and the stylized visuals have been appreciated better in later years. Its resurgent popularity, which may be due to later adaptations of Harris' books and Petersen's success in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, has seen it labelled as a cult film.
Manhunter may refer to:
- Manhunter (film), a 1986 film based on the novel Red Dragon
- The Manhunter, a 1974 TV series set in the 1930s
- Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force, a 2008 TV series
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Manhunter (comics), numerous superheroes and villains from DC Comics
- Manhunter (Kate Spencer)
- Manhunters (comics), a fictional robot race in the DC Comics Universe
- Manhunter: New York, a 1988 adventure game by Sierra Entertainment
- Manhunter (role-playing game), a tabletop role-playing game
Manhunter is the name given to several different DC Comics superheroes/ antiheroes, as well as the Manhunters, an entire race of androids created by the Guardians of the Universe as a forerunner to the Green Lantern Corps. None of these are to be confused with the better-known DC Comics superhero called the Martian Manhunter, who is sometimes addressed as "Manhunter".
Manhunter (Kate Spencer) is a fictional character, a superheroine appearing in DC Comics. She is the eighth DC Comics character depicted using the name Manhunter, and the first female to do so. The character first appears in Manhunter (vol. 3) #1 (October 2004) and was promoted by DC Comics as relevant to the popular Identity Crisis limited series.
Manhunter is a role-playing game published by Kingslayer Productions in 1988.
"Manhunter" is the seventeenth episode in the first season of the CBS television series Supergirl, which aired on March 21, 2016. The episode's teleplay was written by Cindy Lichtman and Rachel Shukert, and directed by Chris Fisher.
Usage examples of "manhunter".
I squatted lower so my face was at knee-level, and brought the Manhunter to bear.
As I climbed the steep stairway, I loosened my Manhunter in its holster.
Seattle Hilton parking lot at Sixth and University, leaving my Manhunter locked in the glove box, then walked the three blocks to the City Center Building at Fifth and Pike.
I greeted one with a Manhunter round through the upper lip, exploding what he used for brains out the back of his skull.
I tried to raise my gun to send a farewell gift after them, but the Manhunter suddenly weighed a ton or two.
In the confines of the apartment, the booming concussions of the Manhunter were like physical blows to my ears.
As she spun in horror, I ejected the empty clip from my Manhunter, slammed another one into place without taking my eyes off the new visitor.
I ducked further into the shadow of the dumpster, pulled my Manhunter from its holster.
I stuck the Manhunter muzzle into her face and triggered the sighting laser.
Yet how could he be, if for six years he had defied all the manhunters of the Turnbull valley?
Fugitive Section, by the nature of their work as manhunters, often started their days as early as three A.
For patience is very much French's middle name and his always thorough investigations have proved him to be an expert manhunter with a unique ability to break seemingly unbreakable alibis.