Classic

Rating: 7/10 (1 February 2007)

A film shot entirely in and around Pittsburgh, FBI neophyte Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) cautiously befriends brilliant, criminally insane Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to enlist his help in solving serial kidnappings and murders. Breathtakingly suspenseful and eerie.
I don't want to give away too much. But its darn right creepy and atmospheric. Finely intuitive depiction of the friction between Jodie and Anthony was Oscar heralded and allowed Foster to reinvigorate her audience and ratchets up the tension.
Stands as the finest period documents of Pittsburg. The Silence of the Lambs is a 1988 novel by Thomas Harris, his second to feature sociopathic psychiatrist and cannibal Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter. In the novel, Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, is sent to see the imprisoned Lecter in order to ask his expert advice on catching a serial killer given the name Buffalo Bill, who is abducting women and skinning them.