Australia’s deputy prime minister boasted that he had got into Johnny Depp’s head like fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter after the Hollywood actor quipped that the ruddy-faced lawmaker appeared to be “inbred with a tomato.”

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The Light House cinema in Dublin is hosting 9 horror classics for Halloween, including vampires, screams and nightmares

This week, two best friends face cancer in the touching comedy drama Miss You Already, a psychic helps an FBI agent to hunt a serial killer in Solace... and Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo and Kate Mara star in the true life crime thriller Captive.

Lords & Ladies takes the viewer on a historical journey to celebrate our past through the wonders of food and the glories of cooking.

Hannibal the cannibal is back and looking for some new tasty treats in Europe as this consistently surprising show continues

Just weeks ago, The Menu remedied a grave ill of his own contrivance and returned to Belfast after an absence of two decades and more. 

The lines "Bond, James Bond" and "He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy" feature in a shortlist of favourite film quotes.

A male NHS nurse with a cannibalism fetish has been found guilty of trying to meet a 14-year-old girl after sexually grooming her and promising to behead and eat her.

Quite the kerfuffle over a man bringing a computer to the FA Cup final, I notice.

A young homeless man, who claimed he heard voices in his head, killed a 90-year-old villager in southern France and then ate his tongue and heart, officials said.

You can teach old dogs new tricks, or so it seems in ‘RED 2’, the action-packed sequel to the uproarious 2010 comedy about a team of retired assassins, who merrily kick butt and run rings around highly trained agents 30 years their junior.

An ability to empathise at will may partly explain the evil cunning of psychopaths, a study suggests.

A man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a Texas college told investigators he had fantasised about cannibalism, necrophilia and cutting off people’s faces and wearing them as masks.

Just rewards

TO say he’s making a comeback would be misleading, because he never went away.

Anthony Hopkins has put in an offer to buy his childhood house.

Helen Mirren is hopeful 'Hitchcock' will win big at the Oscars.

He has played President Richard Nixon, Hannibal Lecter and vampire slayer Van Helsing – but Anthony Hopkins says he still found the role of Alfred Hitchcock “daunting”.

Confronting his fear of scary movies, Carl Dixon donned a bloody mask and ran riot in a Cork house of horrors

BAMBI, Forrest Gump and Hannibal Lecter have at least one thing in common: Their cinematic adventures were chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the world’s largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings.

The civil attorney for the doctor convicted of the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson says his client is coping with tight jail security and his isolation, and remains optimistic that he will win an upcoming appeal.

IT’S called ‘game’ because that is supposed to be the method used to kill it — a game of chase for us powerful humans exerting our authority over defenceless animals.

There’s a lot of fury out there right now, and why wouldn’t there be given the mess that politicians, bankers, business leaders and our own levels of greed have created?

A PAEDOPHILE who created a horror film set at his home in a bid to lure children was yesterday jailed indefinitely.

A FRENCH prisoner dubbed “Hannibal Lecter” was yesterday sentenced to serve another 30 years in jail for killing his cellmate and devouring his lung.

BEER-SWILLING, doughnut-lover Homer Simpson has been named the greatest character created for television and film in the past 20 years.

Anthony Hopkins is teaming up with director Ridley Scott to bring his most infamous villain Hannibal Lecter back to the big screen.

Superspy James Bond has been named Hollywood's top hero ahead of Indiana Jones, Superman and Harry Potter in a new US magazine poll.

Heath Ledger’s role as The Joker has made it into the top 10 of a poll of UK film fans to find the ultimate villain.

An Oscar buzz surrounded the late Heath Ledger today as his fellow actors backed him for a posthumous award for his portrayal of the Joker.

Forensics experts in Mexico say flesh found on a plate, fork and frying pan in the apartment of an aspiring horror novelist was human and DNA tests were planned to confirm whether it came from the body of his girlfriend.

Captain Jack Sparrow in the hit Pirates of the Caribbean movies has been voted the UK’s favourite big-screen character.

A daring theft of National Wax Museum figures will not stop next month’s re-opening of the tourist attraction, it emerged today.

Hannibal Lecter returns in Hannibal Rising (Momentum, €24.99), a prequel about the serial killer’s early years.

Martha Stewart ended her brief relationship with Anthony Hopkins because she couldn't separate him from his famous character Hannibal Lecter.

A defence psychologist today said he concluded that Zacarias Moussaoui is a paranoid schizophrenic based on observations of the actions and writings of the confessed terrorist conspirator who was described earlier as convinced US President George Bush will set him free.

Keira Knightley and Dame Judi Dench will lead a host of British hopefuls at the Golden Globes, as they go head to head for a best actress award.

Anthony Hopkins is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes.

An HIV-positive ex-convict who said he tried to kill several New York police officers and a psychiatric hospital employee by biting them or spitting blood in their faces has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.

A real-life Hannibal Lecter who ate the brain of one of his victims was told today that he would remain behind bars for the rest of his life.