Laden with moments of unnerving surrealism with the knack of making you feel like you're experiencing a waking dream, I will comfortably put this crime thriller into the horror category.
Michael Mann films always find a way of showing me parts of myself I've forgotten, often in one of his sprawling, nighttime vistas overlaid with a sonic soundscape - his films are never just 'what they are'. They transcend a genre.
Manhunter is the original movie adaptation of the Thomas Harris novel, Red Dragon and the first on screen incarnation of Dr Hannibal Lector (played brilliantly and differently to Anthony Hopkins, by Brian Cox). Its my favourite of all the onscreen adaptions (big and small screen), with its unique, surreal atmosphere, solid cast, and haunting imagery.
If you havent seen it, its a must watch.