Hannibal serves up a tempting entrée

"It was a daunting prospect, but I think it sort of worked out," veteran British actor Anthony Hopkins says about revisiting Hollywood’s favourite psychopath, Hannibal Lecter, for a third time.

In Red Dragon the 63-year-old Hopkins has to step back over a decade in this prequel to his nightmarishly enchanting depiction of the erudite serial killer in The Silence Of The Lambs.