The 5 most grisly scenes
WARNING: The following article contains graphic images.
AND SPOILERS.
There are a few key things that set the violence of Bryan Fuller's Lecter origin story Hannibal apart from other shows in its genre – the ravishing cinematography, the sheer, grisly ingenuity of the gore, and the fact that each horrifying image holds psychological weight rather than mere shock value. It's why we miss it so.
Nevertheless it is, by Fuller's own admission, a near-miracle that half of this stuff got past NBC's Standards & Practices department. With the ever-lovely Fannibal Appreciation Day in the US this week, Digital Spy looks back at the cult hit's five most censor-defying moments…
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One of season one's more memorable killers of the week has a religious MO, which involves flaying the skin off his victims' backs and lifting up the flaps to resemble angel wings, exposing the ribs and spine beneath.
In a sad, creepy twist that's pure Hannibal, it turns out he has a fatal brain tumour and is creating guardian angels to watch over him because he's afraid of dying.
NBC initially rejected the shot above of a naked, flayed couple, not because of the exposed muscle tissue and blood and sinew, but because - as quoted by Fuller - "'We can see their butt cracks.' So I said, 'What if we filled the butt cracks with blood so we couldn't see the cracks?' And they said okay!"
... Standards and practices logic, ladies and gents!
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