Sometimes, thereÂ’s nothing more frightening than intelligence - especially when coupled with a cannibalistic appetite for human flesh.

Supposedly just limiting himself to rude folk, Hannibal Lecter (an increasingly over the top Anthony Hopkins) still proved a consistently menacing presence to any of us with meat to spare.

Killer line: "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."