David Edelstein: Red Drag. Red Dragon is no Manhunter. In: Slate. 4. Oktober 2002, archiviert vom Original am 6. August 2005; abgerufen am 10. Februar 2009 (englisch): „Manhunter sired CSI and John Doe and Profiler and Millennium and all the other TV shows and movies that borrowed both Harris’ theme and Mann’s hypnotic tone. After this, thrillers would […] become positively fetishistic about forensics […] Manhunter ushered in the age of empathy for the devil“
David Edelstein: Red Drag. Red Dragon is no Manhunter. In: Slate. 4. Oktober 2002, archiviert vom Original am 6. August 2005; abgerufen am 10. Februar 2009 (englisch): „Manhunter sired CSI and John Doe and Profiler and Millennium and all the other TV shows and movies that borrowed both Harris’ theme and Mann’s hypnotic tone. After this, thrillers would […] become positively fetishistic about forensics […] Manhunter ushered in the age of empathy for the devil“