Director: Jonathan Demme
Genre: Crime/
Thriller/ Horror
Runtime:
118 minutes
Year:
1991
Starring: Anthony
Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Ted Levine, Brooke Smith,
Paul Laxar, Frankie Faison, Kasi Lemmons, Dan Butler, Lawrence T. Wrents, Don
Brockett, Frank Seals Jr., Stuart Rudin, Masha Skorobogatov
Description: A young
F.B.I. cadet (Jodie Foster) must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative
killer (Anthony Hopkins) to receive his help on catching another serial killer
(Ted Levine) who skins his victims.
Review: One of the most terrifying serial killers in movie history is Dr.
Hannibal Lecter (although Buffalo Bill always scared me more). According to
Entertainment Weekly Hannibal the Cannibal is the most popular movie creep,
even more then Freddy Krueger, Darth Vader, Norman Bates and Jaws. The
performance by Anthony Hopkins is sublime. Besides being dangerous and scary,
Hopkins manages to be charming and stylish which makes it somehow hard to hate
him.
“The Silence of the Lambs”
was a huge success and won five Academy Awards. Jodi Foster also does a
fantastic job as the brave yet innocent Clarice. And the dialogues between
Lecter and Clarice are so brilliant and memorable. It’s a cat and mouse game
and both characters get so much depth because of it. And there is mutual
fascination. Clarice does her best to get information from Lecter about serial
killer Buffalo Bill, but at the same time she has to expose herself. Even
though Lecter isn’t in the movie that much, for us viewers he is always there.
Both Foster and Hopkins are magnificent, but it’s Hopkins that leaves an
unforgettable impression.
“The Silence of the Lambs”
is a fantastic film, a movie that gives me the chills every single time, a
classic.
Rating: 5/
5
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