The Silence of the Lambs

MOVIE
The Silence of the Lambs
1991

Tagline:
From the terrifying best seller.

Starring:
Jodie Foster
Anthony Hopkins

FBI student Clarice Starling solicits the help and advice of convicted murderer Dr.  Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter to catch a serial killer.

Follow along as I watch!

I'm on a big Hannibal/Thomas Harris kick right now.  LOVE the NBC show Hannibal.  Just finished reading Hannibal Rising, Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs.  Will start Hannibal tonight.

The opening music is creepy.  Having seen this movie many times and having just finished reading the book, again, the music still gives me chills.

Seems like Clarice shouldn't be alone in the woods, even if it is an FBI training course.

So smarmy, Dr. Chilton...creepy, if you will.  

Barney!  So kind.  Harris makes a point of saying that Dr. Lecter wrote a nice thank you note to Barney after everything went down.

Multiple Miggs.  Gross.

Anthony Hopkins will ALWAYS be Dr. Lecter.  

"I ate his liver with some fave beans and a nice Chianti."

Case or not, you would not catch me going into an abandoned storage unit in the middle of the night.

Whenever I hear American Girl by Tom Petty, I immediately think of this scene in this movie.  

If I learned anything from this movie:  NEVER help a creepy man move furniture into his van in the middle of the night.  And NEVER GET IN THE VAN FIRST.

"Looks like a Buffalo Bill type situation."

I love when Starling kicks all the men out of the morgue.  

In the movie, Dr. Pilcher is a cross-eyed bug nerd.  In the book, Starling ends up dating him.

I always use my sewing machine naked.

Oh, Dr. Chilton... you're going to ruin everything.

"Put the f---n' lotion in the basket!"

Where's your pen, Dr. Chilton?  Did you happen to leave it Lecter's cell?  Chilton introduces Lecter as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.  After 8 years in jail, does he still retain the right to be called "Dr"?

I know what's coming and yet I still cringe.  Pembry lying there, Boyle on display.  

There's a reason this won best picture.  The moment Starling knows she's got him, and the moment Jame Gumb knows she knows... still a completely tense scene.  

Never, I would never venture into the basement.  I would have called for back up right then and there.  

This last scene is terrifying.  We know he's there, she has no idea.

"I'm having an old friend for dinner."

Such a great movie... does the book justice.  This is one of those movies that I could watch over and over again.