The Silence of the Lambs at 30: Thrilling (and Complicated)
Mar 05, 2021
3 minutes
BY H. ALAN SCOTT
@HAlanScott
AS SOON AS THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS WAS released on February 14, 1991, it was clear this wasn’t your ordinary horror film.
“The Silence of the Lambs is an electrifying exercise in suspense,” David Ansen wrote in his review for Newsweek. “One need only have a healthy appetite for fear to acknowledge that thrillers don’t get much more thrilling.”
Based on the 1988 Thomas Harris novel, the film follows Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), a young FBI agent hunting down “Buffalo Bill” (Ted Levine), a serial
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