The Silence of the Lambs, American suspense film, released in 1991, that was the first psychological thriller since Rebecca (1940) to win the Academy Award for best picture. The film’s tight direction and clever script, together with an indelible performance by Anthony Hopkins as a cannibalistic serial killer, resulted in a sweep of the five major Oscars (best picture, best director, best lead actor, best lead actress, and best screenplay [original or adapted]). As The Silence of the Lambs opens, FBI trainee Clarice Starling (played by Jodie Foster) is summoned to the office of Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn), the head
7. Hannibal Rising (2007)
Why can t we just let baddies be bad? As part of an eye-rolling trend of villain origin stories, Harris rush-released a novel and film about young Lecter (Aaran Thomas), tracing his dire upbringing in 1940s Lithuania, where his parents were murdered and his sister was cannibalized. Now grown, Lecter (Gaspard Ulliel) develops his own taste for flesh in a gruesome revenge-killing spree. It s a hackneyed tale that robs the character of his chilling mystique, reducing him to a cheap horror movie slasher.
6. Clarice (2021)
A show that is somehow more lifeless than Dr. Lecter s victims. Set a year after the events of Silence of the Lambs, the CBS drama follows Starling (Breeds) as she s called back into the field to investigate serial killings. The series aims for nuanced exploration of Starling s childhood trauma and PTSD from the Buffalo Bill case but is hindered by flat dialogue and heavy-handed storytelling. Most lethal of all, Clarice is unab
Kristi Zea had recently finished working with Jonathan Demme on
Married to the Mob, so she knew him well enough to speak her mind when he started planning
The Silence of the Lambs. âIt gave me the creeps,â says the production designer. âI said, âReally? Youâre going to make a movie about a guy who skins women and makes outfits out of them? Jonathan, what are you doing? Are you crazy?â â
But the director convinced her of the storyâs feminist merits. Soon, Zea found herself channeling the disturbing paintings of Francis Bacon, and going back and forth with special effects over how skin should drape from a hanger. The resulting taut narrative, uneasy laughs, and bone-chilling depravity made for a master class, and swept all five top Oscar categories in 1992âwinning for best picture, directing, writing (adapted screenplay), actor, and actress. No other film has done it since. Stars Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins went to the head of the
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