When I saw the corrections officers wheel Lecter out with that on his face, it freaked me out big time!It didn't take too long after that for me to see why they felt the need to muzzle Lecter!
That was a very unique movie theater experience for me! At the very end of the movie,you are actually pulling for the psychopathic serial killer to get the sadistic psychiatrist! That was so ironic,and the first time I've ever experienced that!
I was listening to fellow members of the audience as we were leaving the cinema,and most of them loved that Hannibal Lector was alive and well and stalking the prison shrink who was constantly trying to get Lector's goat! If the old Hayes movie code had still been in effect,Lector would've had to be killed,or at least captured and returned to jail by the end of the film.
I was in the military and those gas masks are just creepy period
I've always found Micheal's the best because of it connects so well to his actions. Calm, takes his time, and deadly to anything in his path.