Still Appreciated After 25 Years

Rating: 8/10 (11 March 2016)

I'm going to rat on myself here. The first time I saw this was in theater 1991. I actually sneaked in to watch it 1.) because I was too young for an R rated movie and 2.) because I wanted to see a movie for free. I had no idea at the time that I was watching what would be considered a classic film.
At that time the entire movie was new and fresh: this genius of a madman named Hannibal Lechter, this young FBI agent in training named Clarice Starling and this absolute freak making clothes out of women's skin dubbed Buffalo Bill. I was enthralled with these characters and the story. I was in disbelief at the gruesome nature of it yet the intelligence of it. After watching it again today, fully, for the first time I have an even greater appreciation for it.