My Top 10 Scary Movies Countdown — #7 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

7. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ~ It’s difficult not to love this film. The high-profile daughter of a senator has been kidnapped by Buffalo Bill, a serial killer who starves his victims for a few days before killing them, then removes some of their skin for unknown nefarious purposes. FBI Agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), who seems to represent all that is noble and good, is on the case, and the only person who can lead her to Bill is the incarcerated Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), but his help comes with a price.
This film was good, and it was creepy, and for once everybody agreed on this; the movie won five Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Screenplay). Anthony Hopkins was marvelous and had a huge presence even though he was only onscreen for 16 of the film’s 118 minutes.
Since I’m a nerd, I also have to note that there have been tributes to The Silence of the Lambsin World of Warcraft. There is a Forsaken questgiver in Thunder Bluff named Clarice Foster and if you look closely, you will see her lips are sewn shut. In the Dire Maul North instance, when a player picks up Ogre Tannin from a basket, an ogre spawns and charges you yelling, “It puts the tannin in the basket or it gets the mallet again!” So there’s your nerdisms for the day.

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My Top 10 Scary Movies Countdown — #7 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) — 2 Comments

  2. Yes and no. Kind of depends on what’s meant by “older classics.”
    Most of my favorite movies are coming out of the 1990s and 2000s; however, I’ll be giving honorable mentions to some older movies. My #1 movie will be the oldest one of the batch.
    As far as new stuff goes, I don’t go for the torture porns at all. I’m okay with some torture (Saw will be posted as #4 on my list later today), and I can tolerate some nudity, but both just makes me go “ew.” I come to scary movies to be scared, not grossed out. A lot of filmmakers these days make the mistake of thinking bloody = scary, when it doesn’t.
    Likewise, I don’t go for many of the old, old classics. I think movies like Nosferatu, The Blob (original), The Thing (original), etc. served their purpose and were frightening to the generations that originally saw them, but it takes a lot more to scare a modern 2000s audience. We’re a tough crowd to please.
    I suppose the era I’ve overlooked where a lot of people feel the best material lies is the 1970s, and I’ll be discussing a lot of those movies and why I don’t find them terribly scary when I get to the end. A lot of them are noteworthy and still provide some good scares, but they’ve been outdone by their successors.
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