Gonna be controversial here and say that I prefer Brian Cox's Hannibal Lektor in Manhunter to Anthony Hopkins' Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. Hopkins is a fantastic horror movie monster, but there's no way in hell you'd ever go to him for therapy. Cox on the other hand is urbane and charming, chatty and friendly. Until you realise he's just manipulated a serial killer into slaughtering your entire family. The kind of man who can make witty little jokes about the pleasures of mass murder, but never once lets his mask of sanity slip. No anger, no drooling madness, just a calm and collected picture of unspeakable evil.