The one that started it all.

Rating: 10/10 (31 October 2002)

The influence of Jonathan Denme's masterpiece is still being felt today, and it's quite a tale to tell. This Movie cemented Anthony Hopkins's Hannibal Lector as The most horrifying villain in modern cinema, and basically remade the suspends thriller for years to come. Jodie Foster is amazing as Clarice Starling, a F.B.I Trainee that has to track a Serial Killer Named Buffalo Bill who is skinning woman across the state. In their desperate search to catch this monster, They turn to Dr Hannibal The Cannibal for help. Hannibal is himself a serial killer, and a brilliant one to boot. Always outsmarting his doctors and snubbing his nose at authority, Hannibal turns Clarice's plead for help into a psychological game of cat and mouse that not only puts insight in the case at hand but puts insight into Clarice's own fracture past as well. It all leads to a terrifying conclusion that you will have to see to believe. Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster both deserve the Oscars they won for their performances and the picture itself deserve it as well.