Jonathan Demme's best work!

Rating: 8/10 (18 August 2016)

Jonathan Demme's "The Silence Of the Lambs" is exceptionally good film, perhaps this fine director's best. Demme has remained remarkably true to Harris' novel, although the ending has been altered to extent that it suggests the possibility of a sequel. The movie, scary and graphic to cause timid souls (such as this writer) to close their eyes at certain points, has a vise-like grip on the audience. The Silence Of The Lambs has an edge to it that's quite exceptional, but its central core is more memorable not for what it says but for how it says it. And here Demme's almost spiteful humour is at least as important as Harris' balefully brilliant seriousness.