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The Silence of the Lambs
A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism, to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
4 February 1940, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
9 April 1952
6 November 1952, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 December 1963, Denver County, Colorado, U.S
25 August 1944, New Rochelle, New York, USA
26 June 1956, Stockton, California, USA
November 14, 1960 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1 May 1973, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
February 22, 2013
This multi-Oscar-winning classic, adapted from Thomas Harris's bestseller, was responsible for giving cinematic serial killers a better image, thanks to Anthony Hopkins's enthralling portrayal of Hannibal Lecter.
August 12, 2013
Jonathan Demme's thriller is artful pulp -- tabloid material treated with intelligence and care and a weird kind of sensitivity.
August 12, 2013
Demme comes at Harris' material from another angle: His movie may deal with madness, but his perspective is mercifully sane.
July 23, 2013
Has any horror movie equalled it in the past 22 years? Perhaps. But if only one super-gory flick is ever considered worthy enough for the Academy's top prize, I'm fine with this being it.
August 12, 2013
As Lecter, Anthony Hopkins gives an astounding performance -- eery, menacing, creepy, believable.
September 27, 2015
The Silence of the Lambs, with its dark Freudian subtext, its Poe-like air of foreboding and its chillingly gritty characterizations, is simply a very tough and very scary little movie.
August 12, 2013
Jonathan Demme's hypnotic adaptation of the Thomas Harris novel has a seriousness and intensity that's been entirely lacking in horror movies lately.
August 12, 2013
The confrontations between Foster and Hopkins -- facing her from an ultrasecure cell -- are models of chilling intensity.
August 12, 2013
Hopkins' cumulative screen image is one of civility and decency, and the association adds to the withering, macabre effect of his murderer. It is a remarkably lucid portrait of lunacy.
August 12, 2013
It's a gnarled, brutal, highly manipulative film that, at its center, seems morally indefensible.
February 17, 2015
The movie, scary and graphic to cause timid souls (such as this writer) to close their eyes at certain points, has a vise-like grip on the audience.
July 10, 2016
An exquisite piece of filmmaking in which basically not one single thing goes wrong at any point.