gory, realistic and suspenseful

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2013)

The Silence Of The Lambs was the only third film to win all the top five categories in the Academy Awards and it's also the first horror film to win best picture and it won rightly so. Silence Of The Lambs is one of the best film I have ever seen.The writing is excellent you can tell that mainly by noticing that some of the clichés that other serial killer (slasher) films often use are ignored of in here the direction is superb but there is no doubt that what makes this brilliant film what it is it's the acting without the talents of the main and supporting cast The Silence Of The Lambs would be nothing. Jodie Foster brings the right amount of courage and vulnerability to the character of Clarice Starling and of course there is Anthony Hopkins who basically steals the show as Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter the brilliant psychotic cannibalistic and highly manipulative serial killer although he was not the first to play Lecter (the first actor to portray the character of Lecter was Brian Cox in "Manhunter"-1986) but never the less Hopking is and always will be Lecter. The Silence Of The Lambs is gory, realistic, suspenseful, dramatic, dark and thrilling but it's not a "slasher".